Fight breaks out at UCLA; Fireworks thrown at pro-Palestine tents

They pepper sprayed us so what they're telling us is campus security and now that we're seeing these flares it looks like a fire is going to break out too so campus security apparently oh my gosh that was a firecracker , a very dangerous scene live. Right now on Goodnight La, our team, obviously, in the midst of everything, we want to make sure that our team is safe, as we bring you these live images of the total chaos that is unfolding on the UCLA campus in Westwood right now with that person. there, all dressed in a black hood, spraying what appears to be pepper spray, that's what Chelsea Edwards was saying, that they pepper sprayed her and she was having a hard time talking, her eyes are stinging, we have a security team with our team, so Safety is also there, but above all we care about the safety of our team.

We want to make sure they are okay. This guy is in a posture. It is not clear whether these are UCL students where these people came from earlier that day. The UCLA administration took a different stance on these protesters and said enough is enough, they need to move, otherwise they could face disciplinary action. We understand that campus security is gone and you see the barriers that are in disarray right now. Well, let's call these people suspicious. At this point they arrived and were starting to dismantle the camp, they were taking down those barricades and, oh my God, that sounded.

You're hearing the screams of people on campus right now, students, maybe they, that news again, splashing. Guys, we're listening, we're hearing bombs going off, it sounds like

fireworks

, we're also seeing the spark of that, uh, we're hearing coffee, of course, this is something that we certainly didn't expect to kick things off. Tonight, uh, before it was a much calmer scene, of course, we don't know who these people are, if they are all part of the pro-Palestinian movement, if they are students, obviously, many of them are dressed in black from head to toe. I have seen those barriers, those barricades have gone up again, it is difficult, it is very difficult to make sense of it, you know what we bring you live on the air, while our photographers are also

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ing everything, we appreciate you very much, it doesn't seem like it .

Any security there is in terms of campus police has gotten completely out of control. I'm pausing while I just took a look at this too. I know, I know, I know I'll talk a little bit, okay, so this is where the tent camps have taken over the UCLA quad and this has been happening this is night number six and it was just today that the chancellor from UCLA came out, issued a statement and said that we are going to change our strategy and that you Face discipline if you are not going to leave and that was that we did not see anything else beyond that they brought in some security officers, now we are seeing to some people here carrying an Israeli flag making their way towards this.

Pro Palestinian camp uh this is an amazing live image and live scene now we have Alex Michaelson here joining me uh in good evening La Alex. I've never seen anything like this where it suddenly went from calm to total chaos. Yeah, we saw that statement tonight, Marlo, that we were both talking about on our 6:00 newscast when the chancellor of UCLA, basically, who had said almost nothing for days, issued a statement that essentially said we were done with this, uh, saying that this. Now it's a basically illegal meeting and it's time for it to end and that's what, professional, let you know that something was probably coming from UCLA in terms of it's time to shut this down.

This happens the same night as us. I saw at Columbia University that the NYPD moved out and this is the first UC school that we've seen because we've seen other protests at other UC schools where the administration has now made the decision that we're moving out and let's stop this. something and that's what we're seeing tonight, it was concerning earlier in the evening when we saw some, I saw especially online, an aerial video of some of the protesters inside the encampment who appeared to be preparing for a possible battle with the police. that Chelsea was talking about. "This idea that some of these protesters were receiving lessons on how to deal with the police, we know that there are students there who have genuine concerns about the way the Palestinian people are treated in Gaza, but there are other anarchists who have nothing to do with it." really care." We don't care much about what is happening in Gaza and we want to stir things up.

We have seen these people in different demonstrations over the years and now they are seeing it on the campus of one of the great universities, the most applied. to the University in the country UCLA, which looks like anarchy right now and there are anarchists who are in the middle of this, they are literally throwing barriers at each other. Jou, what appear to be metal poles, you have to wonder where campus security is, where they are. any type of public official, I mean, this is like this, and like that, the University of California has its own police force, that's its own thing, it has the same rights as the Los Angeles Police Department, where are they right now? and if they need it. to ask for help from the LAPD, I mean, the Tampus police have jurisdiction here, the UC police, but they have the right to ask for help from the LAPD, the Los Angeles County sheriffs and where are they?

You're seeing a lot of photography happening, right? now, the photographers obviously photographed this, there is a gentleman who seemed to be talking on the phone, almost like he was trying to mediate, trying to stop this somehow, they are throwing pieces of equipment, I think they have dismantled it back and forth . One of the scariest things was when we saw

fireworks

, maybe set off in the camp, and the big concern was if anyone was hurt, we don't know, so if you're just joining our coverage, we don't know if there have been any. injuries, I wouldn't be surprised considering how violent this quickly became.

We have seen pepper spray. We have seen the launch and the dismantling. We have a police specialist. Dennis Z. Now joining our coverage, Dennis. I want your opinion on this. a long time decades a long time police officer where are the officers? the officers once they receive the call they will gather together they are not going to send two or three or four officers they will have to form in squad formations they have the protective equipment, obviously they will come from West Bureau, they can request assistance from the Los County Sheriff's Department Angeles, the highway patrol, UCLA has a police department, I don't know if they'll put it together if they're prepared for this particular thing. situation, but it would not be safe to send some numbers.

You have to send a massive amount of officers to protect the officers and to arrest what we see happening with this demonstration that has now become. violent, uh, we've seen the tear gas, we've seen the

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s, uh, different melee weapons, so you can't just send a few officers, you'll have to mobilize several UCLA officers and Late Watch usually you don't have much , but we have Metro and they may have to call officers from home to combat the situation and disperse this crowd and detain individuals who have some weapons, but you're not. We're just going to send in a couple of officers to contain a crowd that's violent, I see what's happening at this particular moment, yeah, and now we've got Sky Fox up there too and hopefully we can show some of that too, and Dennis, we have an example. of the police moving in something like this just tonight in cola oh my gosh at Columbia University we saw an overwhelming show of force from the New York Police Department coming in to remove the protesters who had essentially taken over a building there uh that seemed to be relatively violence-free and seemed to be effective, this reminds me of a night that Dennis, I'm sure you remember, maybe it was, I don't know, a decade ago, maybe a little less than that, when we occupied the built in downtown Los Angeles.

Angels, this camp town that they had let happen day after day was finally broken. I was the reporter who was embedded with the LAPD that night when they moved in at this time, around 11:00 p.m., for a multi-hour process. of a massive show of force and trying to get people out and there was some resistance and honestly it was a little scary being in the middle of it, um, but that was a situation where it was the time and place of the police and they were in control at the moment, we have a situation where no one is in control and we have agitators who I don't think are really concerned about Israeli politics and who are trying to agitate some you know what and they are in in the middle of the campus, so now we have the ground shot and then in the top left corner we have the aerial shot and maybe if we take that it gives you an idea of ​​what's happening.

Here you see there aren't that many people who are really uh the rioters here are a small group and can you talk about the crowd? Dennis dynamics of this group this type of antifa agitating group that you see at some of these events that don't really exist for exactly the right reasons we don't We don't know how many are inside the barricades, we know what we see outside the barricades and obviously they are coming to disturb the situation at this late hour, after 11 p.m. but what we need is enough resources to stop them and nasty riots that uccla exactly what the police will do what the LAPD will do what the sharff will do will support what the UCLA police want to do but they will be the main agency that takes action on this and what will happen, then they will evaluate this crowd, they will have the air unit not yet there.

I hope that the 911 call has been made to begin rounding up West Bureau officers and that you have the divisions that will then deploy officers to this particular location. I don't know at this particular time if they had any special Metro units ready. I don't know if they anticipated anything would happen, but this is the kind of situation that attracts L. agitators and what we call professional agitators who just want to create problems, they don't care about the cause, it's just creating chaos and creating the problems and that That's what you see happening, but the other question is how many are camped inside the barricade there. to confront these individuals who want to attack and take him down, so you have two opposing sides and the only way to call it is to bring a massive show.

Force to start stopping people. Yes, we are seeing someone right in front. from our camera there, we just saw our security officer who is with our team there trying to get these agitators away from us because, oh, now, excuse me, we are learning that the UCLA police are, in fact, moving stopping. so we hope to see those police officers as I think it might be more pepper spray that they have okay let's bring in Chelsea Edwards uh first of all Chelsea how are you? I know you just endured some pepper spray, uh, yeah, you're doing fine.

Uh, wow, that was painful, we were pretty close when that happened, but this is a really chaotic situation, so you can see on the one hand here. The pro-Palestinian supporters, the protesters, stand firm and reassembled the dispensary that was torn down by these dressed people. in black with these masks they are defending themselves, they have makeshift shields, we have seen some with 2x4s, we have also seen members of this area around here who have been throwing the 2x4s into the crowd, now I am looking behind our camera here. Behind Elliot you can see these reds and blues starting to appear.

This is the first time we've seen real law enforcement officers here on the scene. You know, when this all started, everything was pretty quiet before all this, um, they had some. The speakers they had brought were making really distressing noises, there was a sound of a baby crying, we heard the sound of sirens going on repeatedly, also like an evil laugh that was being

thrown

the other way, but other than that, it was peaceful. , apart from the noise, so the campus police they had were gone when it all started when everyone rushed to try to break down these doors, uh, and then everyone left, so this was kind of a free-for-all, like you've been Watching for the last few minutes here, I mean, we've been seeing these agitators again, they're throwing 2x4s into the crowd, the people that are on the pro-Palestinian side are fighting back, they look like they're getting ready for a fight now, like We mentioned earlier that day, they had a workshop today that was titled working with police or how to work with police, those were the people within the Palestinian support side, so it seems like they've been studying or kind of training in some way for exactly this what we're about to see here, we're seeing law enforcement start to arrive, it looks likeThey're forming a shape back there, it's a little hard to tell what's going on. but we're seeing that light coming, so it looks like we're starting to get along, not what's going to happen inside, you know, I'm sorry, Marlo, what were you saying?

No, I'm just saying it sounds like I'm putting a speaker in there trying to drown you out. yeah, he just put it here, they've been doing that, they've been following me around trying to drown out the sound, that's exactly what seems to be happening, we've had people walking up and getting in our faces a little bit, thanks. Much to our security team who kept us safe tonight. A truly unpredictable situation. I mean, just look at this crowd, they're talking. Among themselves they seem to be conspiring and then you have the people on the other side of the fence who are just getting ready, they have umbrellas, you see there, that they are protecting themselves from, but they seem be ready for whatever is about to happen, obviously once law enforcement gets involved this will be a different situation, I'm not sure how they will approach this, what their tactics will be or if they were planning something like this.

I mean, they didn't sit on the sidelines. They weren't here on campus when this happened, so they didn't care what their response was going to be, so Chelsea can, can, can, can, can give us some perspective on exactly what's going on, so this is basically, There are external people who are outside. the camp that are agitators that were just troublemakers throwing things there and the camp itself are not these people the camp is the pre-vetted people that are taking their position and coming and going without law enforcement this is not like the people was trying to tear down the camp, these are these troublemakers who are creating problems.

It's that what's happening, you've hit the nail on the head, ellex, so there, yeah, so these people that are here that have been tearing this down, they're not doing it. They are not identified by anything, there is a t-shirt I have seen that says release the hostages, but they are not identified in any other way. These are not the counter-protesters we saw here over the weekend with the Israeli flags and they are not the people inside the camp these are this is a separate group I am not sure who these people are they are obviously not media friendly they are not interested in talking to us so we haven't identified who they are but they don't seem to be involved with some particular group that we've been seeing over the last few days so what we're seeing now is this third party, they're coming in, they took down This barricade, everyone inside the Palestinian support group is now taking the arm, they are preparing to fight, as you can see, they have reestablished that barricade, that metal barricade in the middle, they are trying to put the wood that has been separating.

They on the other side of this campus have their umbrellas ready they have some makeshift ones they have 2x4s so no this has nothing to do with the people who were inside this camp nor does it have anything to do with the protesters. who we saw here, the counter-protesters who we saw here this weekend, it seems to be some kind of third party that is coming in and causing this problem, but they obviously had a plan, I mean, they set up these speakers here for a couple of hours. Just after 10:00 these speakers were installed and were obviously preparing for this exact action.

Yes, from our Fox View sky and now our ground camera, you can see EMS and police on the scene. Chelsea just so you know the people who were apparently pepper sprayed, like you, being treated by EMS next and it looks like they are now taking some people to the hospital or those are people who are coming in and you know they are leaving the campus eh, it's a I wonder how quickly this got out of hand when campus security knew that the strategy changed today by UCLA, the chancellor issued a relatively stern warning to the camp saying we're going in, you'll be disciplined if you don't.

They comply with Our message is that we did not see any of that discipline tonight and as a result this is the result of these agitators arriving right at the rush hour at 11:00 p.m. and causing complete chaos of violence, we have some photos if you just join us and see what happened at the top at 11: p.m. When we came to Chelsea live, our team was pepper sprayed. Fights broke out. Those barriers, those barricades were being

thrown

down. in terms of the number of injuries, we don't know that the pepper spray fights were about the flying fists, I mean just Alex, you say anarchist, this is absolute anarchy, it really is and you have to wonder where the UCLA officials are and we.

I have seen these people who came out during that occupation. What came out when we saw the protests after George Floyd, we have often seen in the streets of downtown Los Angeles, after legitimate protests, where people exercise their freedom of expression, there is a group of anarchists in Southern California who Denis Sign refers to as sort of professional agitators who do this kind of thing and you think about it, when we bring Dennis Sign back, they clearly know what they were doing. They are coming dressed in dark clothing, they are covering their faces, they have their speakers to try to drown out the media, which is a very deliberate approach by this group of people who are just trying to create chaos they are not focused in no politics more than creating problems exactly they are there to cause disruption they will get into fights as we have seen they will attract as much as they can and they are going to do that until they are driven away.

Now the people who are inside the barricades do not come out, they do not participate, they have umbrellas protecting themselves, but you see that group of people who appeared out of nowhere and wanted to do it. attack they wanted to penetrate and attack and hopefully the UCLA police will be joined by other law enforcement to make some arrests and calm the situation, don't let it continue, but again it's late at night, almost 11:30 at night and you have the three forces that have been there all day have 24 hour coverage, but they don't have the amount of personnel that they would have during the day, so they have to gather those officers and those divisions and get them there so that They can put an end to this and it's been a while, but we know that UCLA is there, but again, they don't have enough staff right now to get involved, you need to have enough staff so that later we don't take risks. the lives and injuries of the officers so this will be a standoff for a period of time but eventually they will come in and sweep the area and restore Tranquility uh but this will continue but like you said and I said and I know. how are these protests going I have been around for over 55 years these are professional agitators who just want to cause havoc and create a problem, while people have a cause, they have a problem, there are some who just want to cause disruption and commit as many violations as may be possible. as they can and that's what you see happening with those people who showed up with the loudspeaker and threw firecrackers, etc. to the people who are inside the barricade, so this will be a confrontation and then the authorities will finally expel them from that area and clean them up. of the area and restore tranquility, but it will be a while until that happens, when you say there is a confrontation, there are no officers around Dennis, I don't know if there is a black and white one that is still there and that was the campus police, uh, but we had Sky Fox on us, the EMS left and then two more whites and blacks left, so the confrontation is between the agitators and the inhabitants of the pro-Palestinian camp.

Is that what you mean? Because I don't see any law enforcement, well, they're not going. To run in you have an officer who is going to enter there or the officer and a partner you need to have enough personnel to overcome the resistance you know that this is already a crowd that wants to confront they have hand weapons with them sticks, etc. We know that they have firecrackers and other weapons, so hopefully no one has a deadly weapon, but the fact is that we need to have enough resources and we are not going to risk the lives of the officers fighting these individuals who we know are.

They already want to be in fights, they always want to agitate and if the people who are on the barricade come out, then you're really going to have a massive takedown of a situation where you're going to have people who are going to get hurt. but the officers won't go in there until they have enough resources to get out and it's best to clear this area and get them out. So, Dennis, do you think this situation makes it more or less likely that the officers will move? to break this up, oh no, another one, here comes a potential explosion, oh my god, yeah, there's more fighting, more fighting because essentially these people in this camp are like sitting ducks right now, I mean, they're, they're, they're and there is no one.

They are there to protect them well, they are not, they are pulling, that is their other option, they could leave and come back, you know, but you know that they are there for their cause and the people who are agitators who come to fight them and have confrontation and have uh what we see happening right now. A chaotic situation and they are throwing firecrackers or some kind of lit objects that can be connected with wood or paper and now we could have a fire and that is very possible. have a fire but we're going to see them coming and going uh and again the officers obviously say they're aware of this but they need enough officers to combat this situation because some of these people want to fight the officers and if they want to fight the officers, they have to have resources to stop them and arrest them for whatever charges they want to charge them with, just don't send officers uh some officers you need to have. enough to combat this situation and that's the time of night, when it's 11:25 uh, you don't have that many units out there during the day, it would have been a very quick response, uh, but at this particular time you have to go to the areas around UCLA and send those officers and of course these agitators who have done this type of thing before know this, which is why they chose this as the time to do this type of thing, you would think, the picture that emerges What may happen later tonight is potentially hundreds of officers coming together, potentially with some of that riot gear, to try to move in lines, as we saw at USC, as we saw in Colombia tonight, to try to, already you know, the advantage over these people that are out there, but meanwhile, these people that are in this camp, you know, they are in danger of having things thrown at them, they are trying to protect themselves and protect this situation and and Although we see some Israeli flags around there, let's not confuse what's going on here with the pro-Israel protesters, although that's not what they are, these are not the people who have been out there, presenting their arguments against Hamas.

We have seen during the day without wearing masks waving Israeli flags. No, these are people who are not involved in that movement at all and I hope people don't confuse those two. Yes, you are absolutely right. These are professional shakers. They are on a mission to cause disruption and that is what they are doing and they are getting live television coverage on different channels to spread their message but this message is very sad. There's a legitimate cause and what they're doing is just creating chaos in a dangerous environment for a lot of people, yeah, so our big cameras that have Chelsea Edwards from Fox 11 behind them and Elliot uh Mendoza, the photographer, we thank you for being there. , we thank our security team. for keeping you as safe as possible Chelsea, what are you watching and what are you hearing?

Well, you know it's interesting. A while ago someone came up to us and actually got in front of the camera trying to interrupt our live shot. and some of these agitators reached out to get him away from our cameras to say: no, no, no, we want the press, we want the press, so I think that speaks to what you guys are talking about, this is what you want, this is what they are here to create chaos and they made that point very clear or you can see they are throwing things at the Palestinian support camp right now so yeah these are not the people we saw here over the weekend they are not the people on the pro-Israeli side, you know, these people are here for the press to create chaos and that's exactly what they're doing.

You can hear the music still, we can see different groups, they are pointing lasers which seems to indicate that they might be pointing a gun, our security team has warned us that we are supposed to take that as if they are pointing a real gun , you know, with a laser, so we'll stay away from those people, but They're doing that to the people inside the camp to scare them, but you know, it seems like that's what they're trying to do, but they're groups different, some throw things, we have seen how water bottles are thrown. You saw those fireworks that exploded in front of a group of people a couple of moments ago and there was a lot of confusion. um, we saw those officerspolice leave.

You know, like you mentioned, they're not here, we don't do it. We don't see those lights anymore and for all in

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and purposes this is what we're seeing, we're seeing these security guards standing on the sidelines and just watching this happen in front of us, no one intervenes, no one is trying to control any of this . one stops them from throwing something at the camp group. It's just that we are alone here. It looks like we saw those red and blue lights a while ago that were on the left and the only security that we're seeing, the police presence that we're seeing, is on the side. 911 is hanging up on people apparently according to a person who just arrived, sir, are you from UCLA?

No I'm not. I I I I was a UCLA alumnus. I came here and I am impressed by the lack of disregard for public safety. Yeah, what are you trying to do? UCLA. You're trying to call line one. Yes. I'm trying to call what the emergency is. that there is anarchy here there are people hurt there are people getting hurt and the police officers left their post they were here they left the security abandoned this camp is quiet okay, you hung up on me I called before and you hung up on me Did you just hang up on me again?

I can hear the frustration in your voice. Are you here? Are you here with a particular group? Who are you? I live right down the street here you live here I live in this area I live at UCLA and I came here to see what's going on and I can't believe what I'm seeing I'm looking at people violence look at this they're throwing things at each other they're pepper spraying each other each other, how are they? allowed to have guns on campus this is incredible this is a complete disregard for the law and society has collapsed that's what I call it well society has completely collapsed it's incredible that they are allowing this to happen this is there listen everyone They have the right to their freedom of expression, but this is not right.

What's happening here is not at all right, there are people getting hurt, there are people shooting there, gang members here throwing gang signs, come on, this is crazy and the police come here and they leave. incredible, it's very sad, very sad, so what's your name? My name is Sean, how long have you lived here? Sean, I've been here my whole life, you know, since 1978, since the Revolution, and you know, we saw what happened then and look what's happening here there are people who are looking at this look at this oh oh is that fire look at this this is that fire that is only going to be an explosion right now yes, it is another explosion it is going to be another firework people are going to get hurt yes, people have already been hurt I don't care which side but people are going to get hurt this is responsibility from UCLA you UCLA is responsible for this and they need to close this now thank you so much for your time stay safe thank you and Chelsea.

I think Sean speaks for a lot of people tonight that he's watching this and he's wondering what the consequences are for these people that are there tonight, if you just join us in this. Typically, Marlo would have already said goodnight in Los Angeles, but we'll stay on the air with you for special live breaking news coverage of a situation at UCLA where the agitators have moved in and begun the process of attacking the camp of people who are arguing in favor of the Palestinians who are there and have built their own tent city where they have not allowed many other outsiders to enter. um we've seen almost no LAPD campus police presence from anyone like these people. that they're ready to fight, they're there and this kind of scary situation that we're seeing unfold, it's happening right now at UCLA and Mara at this point, we don't know how it ends, yeah, and this all started with a kind of stance change. by UCLA: The chancellor issued a statement during the 5:00 p.m. address. hour or just before 5:00, as we see another launch of something towards the camp, we have seen these flashes in the camp, some have been fireworks, it's hard to say, the chancellor issued a statement that essentially said This is a illegal protest, we will enter, we will discipline them.

This was for the students and this was for the staff and teachers. We saw the campus police putting up those barricades and you see some of them right there, you know, Chelsea and the reports on her. at 10:00 I was saying things were getting a little more tense, but obviously we didn't see it getting to this point and at the end of the hour was when it seemed like that was the plan from the beginning of these outings. The agitators came in and just wreaked havoc and that's when chaos unfolded. Still no news from UCLA. I'm checking social media.

Still no news from UCLA. We saw two or three black and white campus police cars drive in for a moment. those cars Looks like we just left, we saw an EMS come in and treat a couple of people and we saw that car leave the campus too, Sky Fox, bringing us a live image from above, you're seeing more and by the way, this. it's Roy quad, who we also learned from Alex this afternoon that the library and the Squad were going to close or officially close early at 5:00 p.m. everything officially closed Chelsea. I'm wondering if you could walk us through the progression of tonight that you've been there and at what point tonight you had the feeling that something was going on and that some trouble might start. literally around 10:45 or was it something throughout the night that you started to get the kind of feeling that something's not right here you know when the speakers came out Alex I can see the boxes on the other side um when the Los speakers came out, the tone had changed, that was clearly an aggressive move by the people who came here, they deliberately pointed towards the barricade at the people inside and then started shouting, at first it was music and you know.

I didn't think much about it, it just seemed like you knew they were creating some noise, but then it became very distressing and those sounds started turning into this baby's crying and that repeated itself, you just heard this baby's screams and cries. . blaring, very distressing sounds, then it turned into a siren that kept going off repeatedly and then some kind of evil laugh and then it rotated between those three noises, that's what you had, the feeling that something was happening, I mean, you know that was No, it's not like that, we haven't seen that since this camp broke up on Thursday, that was new and that's when the mood started to change, you know, the people where the baby crying was really distressing, you could see people visibly shaken by it.

It was blaring and I think that's when people started to get anxious, but we didn't see this group here, we didn't see this group of agitators, they all seemed to come in at once and that happened around 10:45. Those speakers came on around 9:30, that's when the music and sound started playing, but at 10:45 was really when everything happened, everyone rushed in and organized, they took down these barricades, they were throwing the fences. In different places they were ripping out the plywood, all the things that the people here in this camp had set up and they just had a mission and they were determined to execute it, so you know this started today like you mentioned.

We closed the library, that was one of the first things we saw, everyone looked at their phones, all the students who were here earlier that day looked down and got an alert saying the library was closed and at some point that's when We found out that this was declared an unlawful assembly and that these people would have to leave, whether they are students, whether they are non-students, whether they are teachers, whoever they are, they have to leave, whether they face possible discipline from the authorities or the school. If they really were students or teachers, they could potentially face expulsion or suspension after going through due process, so that's what really started to change, you know, we've been repeatedly trying to talk to someone within um throughout the entire day.

We went to all the different entrances around this camp and tried each and every one and got different messages for everyone, so it seemed like the internal messages were changing a little bit as the night went on after the chancellor's announcement came out. It seems like they are saying, you know, we will try to get you someone and then it turned out that no, there is no one available and please leave, so the mood definitely Chang, oh, something is happening here, something is happening, okay, so This is live, oh this. It's live wow they left for a little while and now they're back but they're not intervening they hadn't come down from those steps they tell us there are some on the other side too but they're letting this play out, the police came, we saw the LAPD officers get here 30 minutes ago, but they were only here for a few minutes, set up their patrols at the end of the Quad, settled in, and then left. so we have security here, you know, they're throwing something else into the crowd.

Would you have security officers here? But they're standing, they're standing, they're not intervening, it's campus security, yeah, who are those people? Yes, this appears to be campus security. I mean, there's been a lot of different types of security here all day. People in the camp have their own way of security. They have had their own guards that they have hired. There has also been campus security. We've seen LAPD officers here all day long and there are outside security guards as well, so it's hard to tell who's who. There has been a lot of presence here today and it has increased over the last day, so honestly, I'm not sure who these people are, but they are not getting involved in this, they are just standing on the perimeter and this is just developing now.

The question is whether there is any help within the camp. We just watched the fireworks inside. I mean this is packed in there, someone could have easily started the fire. We don't know what's going on there, but you know, we're not sure if there are medical staff inside or how they're handling it there. We can't get in and we don't have any there, so this is really a sketchy situation and imagine the potential liability of all of this if someone gets seriously hurt, when we're all watching this happen and no one is really doing anything. about that, very well, it's true and you know another thing that I want to point out when we were walking around this campus before and we looked around the perimeter of the camp, at the other end are the stairs that go down and there is a small door. that just says fire exit and my Elliot and I realized that today and we were like, oh my God, there's a fire, all these people are going to come out this little exit on these stairs and then they're going to pile up these stairs, that's it. a fire hazard, uh, something else. what happened is they've been setting up dates all day um and we also mentioned we said it's not a fire hazard yeah I'm not sure what this is just a disruption on the side yeah and part of the challenge um, it's just the topography of UCLA is very different than USC, where you know we were last week, where U USC is all flat, there are doors around it and everything can be closed.

Uccla is mountainous, uh, it's completely open, there are no Gates and it's not easy to close it in any way, people can come to it from many different directions, uh, and that makes it harder to control something and what's happening now , well I'm just looking at the sky on Fox View and that's this. In the main image we are now seeing all of those, many of them moved towards the street anyway, so now the movement is towards the street and they are running across and these were some of the main agitators who were throwing things and breaking out into fights . a little bit earlier, so yeah, if I'm them, I'll get out of there now because then you can avoid law enforcement, right?

I mean, why wait until all the cops show up? But they, who knows what they're going to do next, are clearly not thinking rationally or else they wouldn't be doing all the things they're doing right now, yeah Chelsea, that seems to be the case, that suddenly most of them They just moved, it's really difficult. to say what is going on because they are different, while this is a group, they also seem to be in separate groups, so we will have a group that seems to be really ready for a fight that they want to be in. be fighting, other groups are telling them to stand down, you know, we're just here to have a presence and they're not really coordinating with each other even though this seems like a very coordinated event, so everyone ran towards that end there, no I'm sure.

What that was about is now coming back, so it could have been something they were chasing there. Sky Fox probably has a better vantage point than us from where we are, but everyone's coming back now, so whatever. It doesn't look like they are running away, they are walking back to this grassy area, yes we can see it from our Sky Fox point of view and now some of them are approaching our cameras,photographers look at this, these guys hold. These plywood sticks using that plywood are essentially bats and now you're just trying to dismantle all the umbrellas.

This was? You know, Punk and criminal are just moving around and having their way on the UCLA campus right now and it's interesting that these protesters. for the Palestinian cause and, by the way, he does it with his face in front of the camera so that anyone who may see this later from law enforcement has some documented evidence of him, any of these people who were preparing earlier in the night for a potential battle with the police uh maybe not, we're not preparing for this, um, on a night, Marlo, where I thought maybe this camp was going to be taken down based on what we're seeing from UCLA, uh, that This is not what we are seeing, this is not an organized effort to take down this camp.

It's an effort by these people to cause trouble so we want to take another photo of them here we go yeah so this is our photographer Mike Mike Armo's camera and obviously you can see one of the injured people that will be taken away. by ambulance, so the fire arrived on the scene now, so there is an emergency crew it's not clear what this person's injury is, but it's obviously serious enough that it looks like he's in a lot of pain, to be taken to a hospital and examined. So LFD is on the scene. I have not seen any LAPD officers move forward.

Alex. I was just going to say that we've seen all kinds of potential injuries first of all, you know, Chelsea and a lot of other people, they were using pepper spray before. It is a very painful experience. We know that people have been involved in fights. We know that these firecrackers have been set off that have the potential to hurt someone if they go off near you. We, we, and we have seen all kinds of people. carrying weapons, attacking people too, so you know people could get hurt by all kinds of different things right now and, frankly, Marin, it's interesting that we haven't seen more people hurt because of the behavior that we're seeing out there. .

Yeah, I mean there's no point in knowing how many people were hurt or are being hurt tonight as a result of this. Now we're seeing more of that crowd gathering near the camp. This is night number 6 if you count breaking news. that we were following earlier from the east coast, it was Columbia University really clamping down on protesters who took over an administration room and the NYPD went in there and made several arrests, 30 to 40 at least people detained on the campus of Columbia University. the LAPD coordinated effort last week on the USC campus where a camp remains there at that private university and at UCLA this has been the scene for five six days off and on night number six to be exact and it was just today that the campus The administration said we are going to start having a camp.

Sky Fox can see a little bit in the foreground of people milling around the camp, but even with the firecrackers that were thrown, I mean the ones that seemed to be almost a sure bet of getting injured and it didn't, it didn't hit an exact tent. We could see it appear to land on the ground, thank goodness, but we've seen it a couple of times, um many. of hoodies, a lot of plywood, we are being used as a weapon, essentially like a bat, tonight we have seen a fist fly, I mean, we have seen it all and what we have not seen is any real application of the law, there was a brief moment in time where some white and black campus police stopped and that was it, I mean, it's just been anarchy and this is the general video from before, okay, so this is not live the big picture. it's from before um, when yeah, you're looking at the remains of the firecracker that was thrown when we lost power for a moment, it was just um, it was something quite that happened around the time that Chelsea and her photographer Elot Mendoza were pepper. sprayed um and that's part of the reason why they're also doing a great job in very, very difficult circumstances uh of professional agitators who don't want to be there, don't want them to be there, uh documenting all of this, um, it's interesting. , uh, how many of them, although, uh, although the pro-Palestinian protesters wear masks, a lot of these types of professional agitators, you know, they're not, when they come out, this was a video from before, you're seeing them wearing these. barricades and, you know, some of them caused problems, the strategy of what they were doing was difficult to understand, right, all this is difficult to understand, so our colleague Ed Gasos just arrived. this scene Ed, uh, I know you were near the USC campus tonight describe what you're seeing on the ground right now, well at this point we're a block away from Dixon Court, right where it comes in, this is where uh The lifeguards have been moving here.

Los Angeles City Firefighters, Michael, walk us out here, we've been watching one, two of the people leaving the area, pepper sprayed, evidently brought here, and the paramedics brought in, were washing one . He fell, his eyes were burning, he was in a little bit of agony as we were walking here, so in a sense, they've been trying to clean his eyes and calm him down. He now he's in the back of the unit so now. I've seen about two victims of this chaos here brought here to the paramedics who are dealing with the situation, but this is where the first responders have basically been mobilizing, they're coming in with the uh the fire department also again away from the emergency forces. security which are roughly across the plaza Dixon Court Dixon Plaza and this is where we have a few more fire trucks, a few more paramedics, a few more units coming in.

We walk back down this road, so this whole area has now become in a warm bed. The first responders are moving in here, they're putting a lot of media on our right and going down that block as you look down. Michael Gib, look. That is part of the square, that large screen that we see down there is where the protesters have installed the counter showing much of the video of the attack on October 7 and on the other side is really, unfortunately, Ground Zero of this attack that I've been watching play here for the last hour or so again chaotic and there's been people that have been coming out here, they're wearing their masks but they're screaming, they're saying it's crazy to be there, they're pepper spraying so it's here there's a wild scene and as we keep hearing it over and over again, a lot of people have been running by and saying where is the security, where is the police and at this point, from our point of view, all we're seeing are the first few aid, doctors.

First responders come here to try to help, and since you were reporting from USC, not about the protest, but we're across the street, right in the US, can you compare and contrast the scenes from the USC campus and what it looks like from the outside on the UCLA campus right now, yeah, you know, it's an interesting point and an interesting comparison, I would say almost like two different worlds and I'm not trying to be funny by saying that because, at USC, the campus tonight was Qui, there was a feeling that there really is no tension and here you come here and being here last night before all this madness broke out you could feel the tension in the air Mike, you'll take a look again some cars plus some more activity the hot bed of activity but it's a completely different situation USC very quiet tonight uh there's no sense of any kind of activity in terms of protest or any kind of tension and you come here and you feel during the last few hours until noon as it was this continued and then the kind of ultimatum that came from the University telling the protesters that they had to separate, that they had to move, that they had to leave the area, I just felt like something was going to explode sooner or later here and, frankly, I'm not surprised because I remember last night, around 11:30 or 12:00 at night, we had a group of counter-protesters mingling again.

The campus police had to come in and some of their tactical teams and break that up, but nothing. like what we've been seeing happening here tonight in terms of the explosiveness and the violence and the two crowds. Professional protesters confront protesters against each other. A lot of the people there that Mikey is checking out are some of the students that have been running here and I say that because you'd actually see them running down some of the side streets coming this way, they've been hearing that everything this was breaking out and they wanted to come and see it first hand with their cell phones out, but again a lot of people are telling them: stay back, stay back here where it's safe, don't go down to the next block, pass that screen, pass some of those orange cones over there because that's where, that's where everything

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loose and you can see a lot of the activity that goes on, yeah, Sky Fox.

I know you can't see it, Ed, but Sky Fox is over Roy's yard and It looks like more items are being released. people periodically running here and there in spurts, you know Ed, it was what six days ago, so I think tomorrow marks a day when you were on the USC campus when the LAPD moved in and you know 93 people arrested that night, it was completely not like that uh to hit that point even more that it was ordered um there was none of this extreme violence or anarchy in any way yes extreme violence Anarchy very good adjectives I think you could look at this we can see and from my point of view you see a lot of people running, yes, they are running towards this direction like it's pepper spray, and even we are on the other side of the square here, we can have an idea of ​​that too, so they are going in the air, but a lot of people are running in this direction trying to get away from all that chaos that's going on there incredibly, so yeah, this photo here with this young man who's obviously pepper sprayed and they're trying to wash themselves off. her eyes were gouged out um she's in significant pain um there's still no sign of the LAPD, that's what it was and that's your photo ok, I'm Chelsea Edwards, go ahead, Chelsea's ready, uh, can you talk to us about what What are you seeing from your perspective?

Yes Absolutely, so we have moved from the grass area to this hill. It's actually a great vantage point where we can see the lay of the land without being in the middle of the chaos. One of you used the word anarchy earlier and that's it. that's the best word that comes to mind, there's no one intervening here. I mean, we're watching these agitators dancing to music while throwing things at this camp. Honestly, I don't think I've ever used words in my life. race I have seen something like this without interruption there is no one to come to stop this or help and at this point you look at this group of agitators it almost seems that it has become a party for them again we are seeing dancing we "You are seeing people singing, jumping up and down, they seem to be having a great time, whereas this is a very dangerous and violent situation.

Actually, I want to see if you look a little to our left, Elliot boo, come out of the shelter." To be honest, I haven't even seen faces. Some of them are shining flashlights in our eyes. I don't know if they're trying to get our attention or, you know, trying to disrupt our live feed, but that's really all we're seeing. We don't see anything from the inside, so it remains to be seen what everyone does there, if there were any injuries. It's hard to imagine their job, knowing how small they are, how many people were inside while people were throwing those water bottles.

Throw those 2x4 fireworks into that crowd, so you figure there has to be some kind of injuries. Now we see, oh, now we're seeing traffic getting hit. In reality, one of the agitators addresses another agitator. Well, you know this as we watch. a potentially more violent clash here, this reminds me of Mara, a um, you know, there's a law enforcement theory called The Broken Window Theory, which is essentially this thing that Bill Bratton used to talk a lot about when he ran the Los Angeles Police Department and you don't want to see a broken window on a street because it makes you think that there is no pride in the neighborhood and that you have to take care of the little things, stop the little things before they turn into bigger things to have control over an area. and UCLA has allowed this to infect this camp that tonight they called illegal, but they had done nothing about it, so they have this whole setup of all these people out there that they have shown nothing to do to control it and now they have to other people who come to take advantage of that situation.

They're approaching camp now from Sky Fox and they've allowed all of this to happen and there's an argument about what USC did on the first day, which is whatwe did. We are not going to do this and we will intervene and stop it. So, Gina Silva just arrived on the scene. Gina, what are you seeing from your perspective? Well, we are seeing a lot of chaos. It's a chaotic scene, as you can see. they're throwing all kinds of different things into the air we don't know exactly what that is um Leon, you've been watching this for a while describe your reaction to all of this it's a shame what's going on here this isn't America we don't feel safe anymore coming out is that we are literally going back 80 years this is literally history repeating itself it's crazy how it should have been handled again look look at the big government in Austin, Texas, great way to handle it the National Guard thing came along it lasted 3 days everyone came in and they came out that's that's how it should be handled look what's going on where is where is the police where is the LAPD no one is here yeah this is a war zone that's the question we I keep hearing over and over again we've seen firefighters, paramedics, we saw a man in an ambulance, we don't know exactly the extent of his injuries, but we haven't seen any law enforcement officials yet and as you can see, this is a very large crowd. you guys, uh, witness what you are guys, it's okay to be on camera, just ridiculous, what's happening, honestly, very, very ridiculous and disgusting, what's happening.

The fact that a college campus would allow something like this to happen, I mean not letting students go to the library, not letting them get to their class, getting ready. For all the disputes, I mean, if my son went to this university and I couldn't attend his classes, you better believe he would be disputing the charge I have for admission tonight. Were you here when the disruptors came in? Because it was at Point Chelsea, one of our reporters was here, everything was peaceful, then we saw a group of people coming in and setting off fireworks, all kinds of different things, and that started this madness, listen right now, this is the last day I have Pesach.

So, it should be warmed up at this time. I guess when it was Ramadan, we didn't do anything to them and then this is what's happening on our Passover, so again we have to make a stop. You are the Jewish people we never give up on. Sorry, we will exist on this Earth for the rest of Eternity and whoever doesn't like it, tough luck, sorry, okay, thanks for talking to us. Did you go in with the group that came to fight the protesters no, no, I'm just, I'm a normal citizen who just looks and sees exactly what's going on and again, all I can say is I'm embarrassed and I'm ashamed of myself. in this city, what does this have to do with Passover, this crowd, uh, I have no idea, Alex, okay, um, as you can see, absolutely, the crowd is big and when we parked we saw more people arriving, I think you know I know there's something going on here at UCLA and obviously they're coming to check it out.

Maybe you're even part of the problem. You never know it, but we've seen a lot of projectiles in the air here. I was pretty lucky, you know, poor Chelsea, she got hit by pepper spray, that hasn't happened to us, we just got there, but again we saw the paramedics. There was a man inside an ambulance, we don't know the extent of his injuries. I have seen law enforcement here Hello, would you mind talking to us? No, where are you from Fox 11? What is your reaction, sir? Okay thank you very much. My wife is a UCLA alum and we came to show our support. hostages still being held, of whom five are US citizens.

I really can't understand how to support, you know, Hamas in an organization that is holding five American hostages in addition to children, families and the elderly. I look around and I'm really disappointed. our education system, to be honest, I mean, how should it have been handled? I asked that question to someone else and they mentioned that Texas Texas immediately took control and got rid of all the protesters completely so I'm a lawyer and the only reason I bring it up you know we take the scam law right so the first amendment is the most important thing in the United States, so I love freedom of speech and I recognize and support anyone's right to say whatever horrible thing they want about me or my people in that sense, we have to respect that and that It's part of the First Amendment.

Now it's another thing to camp at a university. Let's be honest. This is the first graduation these people may have had since high school. That is being stolen from them. It's very Disappointing 30 minutes ago, UCLA requested help from the LAPD, so we hope we can see some of that law enforcement on this campus because it is painfully necessary. It's hard to argue when you hear W with the people on the ground talking to our reporters tonight saying this is unacceptable this is a disgrace it really is that someone took a Taser I heard the noise I'm hearing another Taser that we saw happen yesterday on campus um also someone got tasered we've I've seen a lot of pepper spray Sky Fox uh really helped paint this picture of the camp now it looks like Alex they expanded the perimeter a little bit more yeah trying to protect that perimeter and frankly , for everyone's safety, let's hope they're able to maintain that perimeter and keep some distance because if that thing falls and these agitators get in there, we could have real problems tonight, and right now, these protesters are essentially alone because they haven't received no help. from any type of law enforcement or even their so called security officers seem to be standing to the side so holding up that barrier seems to be their only protection right now and for their sake let's hope they can. to keep it and we don't see anything worse, but we have a chance of someone getting seriously hurt tonight.

You know, it's a real possibility that it's probably already happened, in fact, because there's been so much violence and chaos. and Anarchy on the go we have three teams we have Gina Silva on the field Ed lasos Chelsea Edwards Chelsea was assigned to this story earlier today we were going live with her at 11:00 when I opened the show to get the latest on the scene and That's when we pepper spray our team. Let's check back in with Chelsea Edwards, who has since recovered. We also have a security team with our team. We shouldn't, Chelsea, what are you watching?

Yeah, well, so we're still back at the stopping point that we had before and we've noticed, as you mentioned, that the perimeter has been pushed back a little bit, which just happened in the last few moments, which that also did was to block one of the exits to this area of ​​the courtyard, so when you go to One Direction, where everyone can leave, that's where people have been coming and going, but where the stairs were a moment ago, that's where the officers security were waiting and now that exit is blocked, I'm seeing a lot of movement in the crowd there it seems like in the middle of the perimeter it's not clear what's going on we see those umbrellas moving we see them removing those fences now before when this happened when we saw this kind of movement people started to pick up those barricades and throw them down but This is a different situation, we have a lot more people now than at 11:00.

You know you have a group mentality. This is where it gets really scary because you just don't know what's coming at you and from what. direction, so now it looks like the people behind the fence are actually pushing it out themselves, if I understand correctly from what I'm seeing, they are actually pushing it out and then locking these fences in place possibly to Give them more space so they have more room in the back, that's what it looks like. This doesn't seem like the people on this side the agitators are taking out. It looks like they are pushing it back to make more room.

Elliot actually looks to our left so we can see this area that used to be an exit. Now they are gathering, they are like jumping on each other to widen this perimeter a little more and give them more space. So, they're obviously organized on that side, you know, as we reported earlier, they had a workshop today on how to deal with cops, so they were anticipating something. I can't imagine they were anticipating anything like what we've seen tonight, but there's a lot of organization on that side of the camp, you know, they're very organized, they've had events all day, so you imagine they know what they're doing. , they've obviously talked about this and developed whatever.

The strategy is that it looks like they are simply trying to expand their own area and if we look to the right it looks like these agitators are backing off. It's really fascinating to see them on our left here, we're seeing them pull more of these doors forward, we're seeing them move their umbrellas forward even further, as they move the barricade, they're also moving their protective system, which at this point is just these uh and these pieces of plywood, but they're using what they have an advantage and obviously in this coordinated effort trying to gain a little more traction here there are still no officers on the ground.

I mean, we've been watching this unfold for over an hour and now it's shocking to see this level of anarchy that is just unmanned, there's just no one here to put this down. This is what we're seeing right now, it's obviously a coordinated effort by people on the Palestinian side who were in the camp to try to push back these agitators who attacked. about them before so this is just unfolding as it unfolds with these people in charge there's no one here to intervene there's no one here to stop this we're seeing some of these agitators pour more water on uh on this camp there, That person I think we're in now has another 2x4 that he's been rocking.

I can smell and taste pepper spray again, oh where does that come from? Everyone around us is coughing, not sure which direction you need. to move Chelsea free to get out of there because we have, we have enough, yeah, take it burning from the first time, but yeah, I mean, it's just chaos, I mean, you don't know where it's coming from, no. I don't know what's going on from anywhere. Thank you so much. Our security team carries Tums that can help with your throat. Your pepper spray. Apparently I didn't know until today. This is crazy. There is no police intervention.

Yes. and so far there is no news from the chancellor of UCLA, uh, Jean block has not published any kind of statement on social media. UCLA, the school itself has not issued any word uh we have not seen any of the campus leaders going there to try to take control uh they have been completely silent while this is happening on their campus uh we understand that about half an hour ago finally called for help from the LAPD we have to assume that the LAPD is now in the process of trying to round up as many officers as they can at this late hour now at 12:18 in the morning, to try to get in there and potentially show a show of force, but it's not clear when that would be, we haven't seen any indication from the air uh, those outside officers are near Marin, yeah, so it was 7 hours ago Alex, to your point, that we last heard time to the Chancellor of UCLA, as we now take our full Sky Fox Shot here and at that barricade that perimeter gets bigger and Jean block bigger, the chancellor of UCLA says that campus activism should never make members of our community feel intimidated, threatened and scared, please read my message to students, staff, teachers and parents about the Roy Quad protests.

It's a long message that was posted just before 5:00 p.m. m. We had this for you on the Fox 11 News show at 5:00 earlier, where the main message from UCLA was that there will be disciplinary action. This is now an illegal protest. Disciplinary measures will be taken as we see. they're cones being thrown into the camp now there's another one well we see an illegal protester and we double down because what we're seeing here is a really illegal protest an event that has nothing to do with the First Amendment uh rights that our founding fathers fought so hard to ensure in our constitution, uh, but it has everything to do with violence and, um, and a complete lack of respect, frankly, for Authority, um, or even for human rights, yeah, for Humanity, for your Companion, uh human, uh, this has been going on for almost 90 minutes straight without any security, without any law enforcement, still waiting for someone from UCLA to step up and put a stop to it, at least the attempt is to make your way to the camp itself, you probably have a better view than me, yeah, we've got Sky Fox up high right now, Ed, and it's just a fight, uh, we've seen a lot of those bars of metal used as bats, we have seen plywood used as bats. tonight sticks essentially but thick the cones the construction cones that are thrown uh fists that fly firecrackers have been thrown I mean, we have really seen everything that we have not seenI'll repeat but it's worth repeating we haven't seen the authorities So, to your point, Ed, a black and white one, the campus police vehicle that's parked out front, that's been parked out front for the entire night, so I think one was already there, uh, Gina Silva is on the ground.

Well, Gina, what are you seeing from your point of view? Well, we just saw so many, you know, so many crowds here throwing things at the protesters, of course, you saw the protesters themselves moving the barricades even further to this side where the agitators are. you're also throwing things you've been here for quite some time what's your name uh jqu tell me a little bit about who oh my goodness we apologize for the language obviously this is a very tense situation take it away from me well when i try not to do it damn please, ok, ok, when I first got here, it was a lot, the crowd was a lot smaller, you could get to the, you could walk into that building right in front of us without any problem, I walked the more I got here every day.

The crowd continued to grow and become more aggressive. It's really sad to see that my community is like this and just throws things and all this violence is not normal and we witness history when we first come here and talk to someone. Who said they saw the crowd come in and they were carrying an Israeli flag and started throwing things at the protesters? That's what you witnessed too, yes, I witnessed what we're witnessing right now, you know, people holding on to the fence. and throw them and destroy them all and some fights back and forth then people throw punches, as we see right now, people throw cones, um, fire extinguishers, it's gotten really aggressive, uh, and that's what's with the smoke you see , you know, even if it's not, if it's not directed at you, you can still get it. over it because he's so strong Alex uh Mara I'm the one who should set him on fire so I mean it's really bad um It's sad that this is so violent and we're in the middle of Westwood like this is a college campus where students go and it's crazy, this is never, I've never seen this before in my life, I never expected this to happen, no, absolutely not, and as you can see, there are so many people who came here to see this, there are crowds that are standing around one side and uh, they're just watching the story unfold here at UCLA, yeah, my God, it's getting more and more violent, it seems like they're literally infiltrating.

Okay, there's a fight, yeah, trying to get ahead. Yes, again and again, I don't see any application of the law here. I don't know where there are many police outside, but no one is coming to stop this. Yes, it is interesting that our friends at Daily Breu, of course, are the campus newspaper. uh, tweeting at one of his editors, tweeting. I called ucpd, which is the police agency in charge again, not the LAPD's ucpd, to get a statement on the ongoing violence at Dixon Court. His answer was no, not at all, they hung up before he could ask another question in a statement delivered by text message to the newspaper Bruan reporting that a UC divestment coalition at UCLA was part of this group in the camp said that the violence of tonight was one-sided and described the University's lack of action and protecting student safety as hypocritical and abhorrent, that is a response from The people who are inside that camp right now feel like they are under attack and for one good reason, yes there is no action to protect student safety at this time, apparently UCLA has not asked the LAPD for help, that request is necessary.

Happen and we found out that that happened probably 45 minutes ago, but we haven't seen that really play out yet. We have not seen law enforcement enter the campus. We have seen more and more people come, whether they are there simply to witness this, as Gina said, to witness history or become part of the problem and the agitators that have literally taken over Roy's quad, Sky Fox , bringing you the most revealing live footage and we've seen a lot of this. lowering the barricade moving it um those pop up shops have moved closer to the grass there so the perimeter has gotten bigger um it's a really wild scene.

I'm not sure how to describe it as dangerous, the firecracker shells being launched. individuals pepper sprayed through many masks. I've seen some people with glasses on because they clearly found out there was going to be pepper spray and they have glasses on to protect their eyes, and yet, you know, I. I give some credit to UCLA bruan, the newspaper that is trying to do its part and report the news and can't get any answers from the officials at the University of California, Los Angeles and that gentleman Gina was talking to is Westwood . we're in the m I mean they're singing get a job get a job look I say because I was talking to uh like someone on the inside was saying basically the Israeli side is white supremacy for some reason. oh my god, brother, he just broke his fingers, oh my god, oh my god, he just broke his fingers. brother, this guy with the wood broke this girl's finger, yes, on our side, the girl was like that and broke her finger, no way, yes, oh my God, extremely violent, this crowd is extremely violent, that a rack of tennis is okay, thanks to Gina Silva and as we approach 12:30 in the morning, we thank you for being with us Alex Michaelson marot tez we have full coverage of the Gina Silva team in lasos Chelsea Edwards everyone join in We live on the UCLA campus, we are witnessing, uh Mara, something I have never seen before.

I never thought I would see on the campus of this great University, the most sought after University in the country, the highest ranked public schools in the world, the University of Southern California looks more like a scene from V for Vendetta, just a moment of complete anarchy, people enjoying the process of creating Chaos on campus, and a complete abandonment of any kind of leadership by university officials. and from the campus police who are completely absent uh as we go into over an hour and a half of this happening um the whole world is watching uh yet they don't seem to be doing anything at this point it was today well now let me Correct me , it was yesterday as we moved to Wednesday, it was Tuesday when UCLA changed their strategy and said this is an illegal protest, we will change our tune and start taking disciplinary action if you don't leave camp.

I didn't see any of that and then this was clearly an organized protest by these agitators who arrived at 11:00, it was directly at 11:00 that they descended on the Rory yard which had been closed earlier because of the camp and these fights have broken out , the barricades have moved while our camera shows you this and it's hard to understand, you know which side this person is on, what they're doing, what their purpose is, we've seen a lot. of people getting hurt on live TV uh we're still waiting and it looks like they're trying to plug this barrier here um hey Shout b shut up this is the camera I think from Elliot Mendoza Chelsea Edwards you're our first reporter on scene actually you were there all afternoon, did you anticipate that something like this would happen?

Certainly not. I mean, there was no indication today that something like this would happen. I mean, it really was mostly peaceful from this afternoon all night until after 10:00, it was about 9:30 when these speakers came out. Someone had installed these speakers and started playing first music and then these really disturbing, really disturbing sounds of a baby crying at the top of its lungs, um, it was like an evil laugh, a kind of clown laugh that started playing over and over again. once and then sirens and they kept playing those three sounds over and over again and then right at 11:00, as you mentioned, that's when the chaos just evolved into chaos, now we're standing still, our point of view is a little different here, we are on some kind of hill so now we can see this camp because the plywood has been moved from where it was originally, where it blocked our camera, okay wait.

We have someone here to see if this is going to be okay, so we can see more before, everything was blocked now. I just had a security guard that Fox 11 knows run. I have not confirmed this. information but I think it's interesting uh he said he was able to get in now obviously there's no one manning these doors now there are entry points where anyone can get in he said he went in and saw what he said it's a very sophisticated operation they're making makeshift tiar gas inside of this camp, it looks like they are preparing to defend their grounds, he said there is medical equipment, they have supplies there and we are seeing a lot of organization from up on this hill.

I'm watching them move some of these larger triage type

tents

to the front, I'm not sure what that is or if it's medical, you know the medical supplies they're talking about that they're setting up to treat the people dressed in those whites. tents, but they've gone to great lengths to move them back and forth, and in fact, I'm not sure if Elliot can see from his point of view, but to our left we're looking at another one of those four umbrellas that are they move by a group of people from the back of the camp to the front of the camp we also saw a lot of spray coming out at first we thought it was possibly a fire extinguisher that people were spraying into the crowd but the security guard we spoke to said which is improvised tear gas, they are making it themselves on that side of the camp, we do not have it confirmed, we do not know what that substance is, but we have seen a lot of aerosol, oh, we are seeing. again right there coming from inside the camp outwards now on this side of the camp here is where the pepper spray has been coming out quite frequently uh we were here in a very peaceful part of this area or an area that has been peaceful for the most part so far and we just smelled it again, someone sprayed it in this vicinity, so this is not just, you know, this is not just happening in the yard where these agitators are, this is everywhere. the courtyard where people are just standing and there are also people trying to rile up the crowd.

We have seen a couple of them enter our section and sections on the hillside where people have now gathered to watch it all. this develops and they're actually just getting in people's faces, they're trying to rile people up, they're trying to cause trouble, they cover their faces and then they walk away and then we see them in the crowd that we're seeing. a person there trying to tear down the camp oh now they're pushing the plywood into this person I mean like removing a tennis racket um yeah seeing a tennis racket a lot of those 2x4s again and then the crowd it just moves there again.

There's no one here to break this. This is just people governing themselves and Gina Sil, it's crazy, yeah, Chelsea, thank you very much. We have a photo with Gina now and it looks like she was trying to talk to these private security agents. This is uh. Campus Security Oh, it's campus security. She was trying to get an interview. This is campus security. You can see them all. They are watching all the activity, as I understand it. Excuse me, it's hard to breathe in here, I understand. We're trying to make sure they don't go anywhere else and stay here.

They told me they called the LAPD, they called the police a while ago, but we haven't seen anyone yet, so again you can see the protesters here trying to talk. uh to security and she's calling them cowards because uh nothing's happening but you really know they called the police uh and so far they're waiting for the police to show up so they're like a private security unit, no it's not the UC police right, they are not uh, they are not armed and they are you are you a private security, excuse me, are you a private security?

It says um private security Apex Security Group, so it's a private security, what, what, what, I. Guess what you're paying them for if this is happening and they're just standing there? I don't know, it sounds like Gina has Gina. Take your time, because this can be painful and difficult. I remember covering a Trump rally. that that turned into chaos in Arizona and getting hit by pepper spray and having some of this gas when you're a reporter and it's very, very painful and you can't really do anything but try to get it. far from it, so I hope Gina is okay, yeah, and you know, as we bring you these live images from heaven and from the ground, uh, and we wait for any kind of reaction or response from UCLA, the chancellor, any official there, um, I'm curious. about you also knowing the governor, yeah, where is the governor?

Name. I just reached out through all my contacts to the governor's office and haven't heard back. I don't knowif they are all asleep. It's the governor's 1238. uh, of course, he lives in Sacramento, so it's not an easy drive there, but he's on the Board of Regents. He's someone who has a role to play in the UC system and an important role, and where is he? He has been nice. silence about much of what has been happening on the different UC campuses, we know that when the governor wants to say something and spread a message, he can be very aggressive in doing so and has not been as vocal in recent days on this issue of what we are seeing on campuses and it would be great to hear from him.

I have extended an invitation to you to call or say to make some kind of statement, but I don't know what it is. continue with your office right now, yeah, I mean, your last tweet today was 14 hours ago and it was something we reported earlier about the fact that our population in California is growing, it grew by 1.7%, that was a statistic which was published before. Obviously it was after the population decline here in California, but that's beside the point and this has been going on since 11:00 p.m. that was Tuesday now we're on Wednesday and certainly there should be some statement from a public official right now someone should be on campus while we're seeing violence we're seeing anarchy there these live images our job is to tell them what's happening you can see it for yourself, just the fights that are breaking out, it's that you can't understand who is on which side, this is no longer about the problem that really started on the USC campus when the best student was told that he couldn't talk about being titled Pro Palestine and that sparked a series of protests at USC and then it spread to other campuses and now we are seeing that this is night number six or I guess this would be day seven of protest here at UCLA and here we are, past midnight on Wednesday morning and the quad looks destroyed, that's right. a shameful night in the history of the University of California, Los Angeles and a shameful night in the history of Los Angeles one that we will probably remember for years uh and not a that we were needed will no longer tolerate this this is illegal Disciplinary action will be taken for protest and then it will fast forward to 11:00 p.m. m. tonight when Good Night La starts every night of the week and I was coming on air after a handover from Alex and Christine and was about to move on to what I thought was just an update on the events of Chelsea's night Edwards and that's when this chaos broke out.

Firecrackers were set off, they started throwing down the barricade, projectiles were thrown and now we've been in this mess for almost 2 hours and we haven't seen law enforcement show up. I will say at one point there was only a couple of whites and blacks and That was the UC police and they left and we saw an EMS, that was the first emergency response, they took someone away and then we saw of course the LAFD first responders entering to assist the pepper-sprayed individuals and others who were injured. the fight uh and in the meantime, you know we found out that UCLA has requested help from the LAPD and we haven't seen the LAPD officers yet, so to your point, Alex, maybe it would have been handled differently if it was It will be about LAPD, uh uh. jurisdiction but it is not and this is what we have to keep in mind tonight or this morning this morning, when it seems that a lot of people have been caught off guard by what is happening here, although this camp itself earlier today UCLA considered it unsafe and downright illegal and, you know, committed to disbanding it, so we're seeing it looks like some cracks in the perimeter wall potentially of this camp, it's hard to say exactly what's going on there. from our various perspectives uh maybe we can get some of our reporters back on this um uh I don't know who's waiting and ready to go um maybe it's uh Ed Lasos listening can you hear us?

Gotcha We're just on The Far Side here and we're seeing a lot of the uh I think the counter-protesters, since Mike will give you a chance here in a moment, they're running out of the camp, you can hear a lot. to shout again, the only activity overhead, a couple of media helicopters, no sign of a returning PD aircraft. I saw it about 45 minutes ago, it made some orbits, some circles and then there was no sign of any kind. from law enforcement and again, a lot of the protesters with their masks running here, sometimes you'll see others who have their faces covered and teary eyes saying yes, they got hit. some of the mace, the bear spray, I'm going to get off this road, Mikey, because I've got some people behind me with no security and I don't want them to break my neck, but it's too dangerous to get out anyway.

There is certainly anarchy here and that's what everyone has been saying. Where are the police? Where are the campus police? You saw a while ago. We had private security. I'm laughing because they're standing on the stairs. I also saw them standing a while ago. and watching Well, everyone is fighting, throwing projectiles and getting hurt, you have to wonder Mara Alex, what the hell is going on? Yeah, well, we're just getting a first word, a statement from UCLA, this is from UCLA Vice Chancellor of Strategic Communications Mary Asako, send this comment. I quote horrible acts of violence occurred in the camp tonight and we immediately called the authorities for mutual aid support, the fire department and medical personnel are on the scene, we are sickened by this senseless violence and we must put an end to it quote from UCLA's vice chancellor for strategic strategy.

Communications, you know, you have to wonder when you hear it needs to end, you know, you say these protesters would laugh in your face, you know, yeah, I mean, it needs to end, but what are we going to do to encourage it? final and so far that has been nothing UCLA's response has essentially been let's let everyone fight and see what happens that has essentially been what their lack of action is the doubt that she will wake up if she is not being woken up to wake her up with um messages explaining what's happening in the city of Los Angeles uh what do you think you would want someone to wake you up?

There was this kind of thing going on that you talk about, remember that Hillary Clinton ad about the 3:00 AM Phone Call. m., if you are Governor Nome or the mayor under or one of these people in one of those jobs or the acting chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, Dominic Choy, one of these people. I would like this to be something where I would be very upset with my staff if they didn't wake me up in the middle of this kind of thing, but that's a personal preference, Chelsea Edwards, who has been our reporter on this from the beginning.

Let's talk to Chelsea about her. What are you watching? How we feel about you dealing with the pepper spray and everything else tonight listen, we can taste it, we can feel it, we can smell it. I mean my skin, my colleague's skin is secured in his camp there and all of that just happened in an instant and there really was no one else here for quite a while, including law enforcement, but you know, there were no people Let them look, there were no passers-by, now we look around us in 360 degrees, in every place where we can get a point of view that we are seeing. people holding their phones and a lot of these people I've looked at behind their phones are live streaming which means this is being seen all over the world and that means people are coming here from all over so it's It's hard to know who everyone is with.

It's hard to tell if the people inside, you know? they're just participating in this in terms of looking at it, if people are really trying to get involved in the chaos, if they're trying to start trouble, what. they're doing it, it's hard to tell right now we're looking at someone getting medical attention here, a lot of people were pepper sprayed in the last moments here and that's hard when it hits your skin, oh it just burns you can. Try it, you can smell it, you just feel your skin burning, so we've seen a lot of people running away screaming, drying their eyes trying to D water, you know, putting water on their face, but it's not clear what's going on, this is kind . of a spectator event now, in addition to being a very dangerous and violent situation, I had never seen anything like it.

I mean people who are here. I've seen a couple of people holding drinks like they're watching this as a spectator event watching all of this happen and there's no law enforcement here it's just unfolding as it's unfolding you can see the main crowd is gathering. getting a little exhausted, not sure if these are the same people who started this, the agitators who are in the middle right now still throwing things at the camp or if they are different people, we noticed a new group came in, a person with a yellow flag, when that person came in, he seemed to get a little more violent, that's when people seem to get a lot angrier, so I'm not sure if it's a different group or if it's all the same group.

It's very difficult to tell that no one is wearing identification markers, other than the people who initially entered were dressed in black from head to toe. many of them had masks covering their faces either black or white, so you couldn't tell who they were and that was really it, but now we're seeing a lot of everything, over and over again. The viewer aspect is really interesting. To see, we're seeing people getting hurt here on live TV and people are just filming with their phones, drinks in hand, so I don't know how to describe it in any way, people have compared what's happening with this to the 1960s and the Vietnam War protests, but of course they didn't have smartphones back then, so this is broadcast and viewed very differently seconds, literally seconds after I made that comment Why can't someone wake up? the mayor of Los Angeles or the governor we received a statement from the mayor's office, the mayor's office, Karen Bass, Zach sidel, his vice mayor in charge of communications, saying that the mayor has spoken with the block of chancellors and Chief Choy , Chief Dominic Choy. acting LAPD chief uh Zach says the LAPD is responding immediately to Chancellor Block's request for support on campus uh we haven't seen evidence of that response from the LAPD um we're now uh almost two hours over two hours into this whole thing uh but Um, that's our first indication that Mayor Bass, who's in Washington right now, is up where it's almost 4:00 in the morning, uh and uh, coordinating this from there, um and that this is that phone call at three in the morning that we talked about.

At least on her, we haven't heard from the office of California Governor Gavin New, who I believe is in Sacramento. We want to go back now to Dennis Zign, who has been a member of the Los Angeles City Council. He understands how city government works, but he's also a long-time member of the LAPD and understands how law enforcement works, and Dennis, based on your knowledge of both, can you talk about what you think is it more likely happening behind the scenes right now? They are putting together units probably throughout the city of Los Angeles, not just the west office, there are 21 police divisions, 21 patrol divisions and they have to put together officers from those divisions, they will start with the west office, which is the western part of the city and We will take those officers to a place where they will gather them, hopefully they will have all their weapons and the non-lethal ones and the helmets, etc., they are the vests, they will gather them and do a deployment again.

They are going to follow the instructions of the UCLA police. They are the main agency involved. They are under the state of California. They are regular police officers. The Los Angeles Police Department will follow your orders. They are the main responsibility. The Los Angeles Police Department will support them. any direction they give uh UCLA may be calling their officers from home because of the situation we've been observing for the last few hours uh they will disperse the crowd, many of those people will just disperse if they make arrests If they are assaulted, whatever the In any case, they will quell this riot that we have seen and that, as you said, reminds me of the protest during the Vietnam era, with my 55-plus years in the LAPD that I have been involved in.

In many of those situations, this is exactly what happens, but the concern is that everyone keeps saying the police aren't there. The police are not there. LAPD is not primarily responsible for responding. It's UCLA that makes the call and then the LAPD has to take care of everything. Those units that are on patrol handle calls, the radio calls 911, calls the other calls and books prisoners, etc., then they have to get those people to a location close to campus and then they will make sure that they are deployed and then he will put together a game plan to then enter, they are going to make an arrest, they will have to bring buses to the jail, everything will be determined before entering the campus, forwhich makes people wonder why they're not there, why they're not firing these people. just distribute them all over the area, uh, it's a matter of practicality, you have to get them there.

You have to deploy them to that location and they have to leave the particular assignments where they are handling radio calls throughout the city. from Los Angeles all the 911 calls, so that's the problem, if you go into attack alert, they will bring in officers from all the offices, the four offices, so there is a procedure involved, it doesn't happen quickly, but as we see, a lot of time has passed. in coming and we have seen a lot of uh cly a lot of combativeness we have seen a lot of activity that is illegal uh in a dispersal they give a dispersal order, anyone who stays will then be arrested but the dispersal order like As soon as they see the uniformed officer appear, many of them will disperse, get to their cars and flee.

The stalwarts will be arrested if they decide not to leave and defy the police, that will be the call, but that can happen at 1:30. or 2:00 this morning because it doesn't seem like this crowd is getting tired, it doesn't seem like they want to leave, but that's the procedure we have to follow again. I put the responsibility on the US police department and we know Some officers, some cars were there initially and then left. I don't know how they could turn their back on a situation like the one we've seen happen here on Fox 11 tonight, but it's the procedure we have to follow again.

Our concern. We have to remove the crowd but at the same time we have to protect the officers from getting hurt? Dennis, uh Marlot, is here. I completely understand the procedure you just described to us. How long would it take? Because, as far as we understand, Chancellor. Block put out the call to the LAPD probably about an hour ago, so how long does it take on average to put together and do everything that you just said, which I understand is a lot of work, it's a lot of work, but how long can we wait? when you look at the number of officers deployed at West Bureau West LA Pacific, etc., Wilshire Hollywood, when you look at the number of officers deployed, they still have to have officers handle calls in those particular areas, so maybe they can pass two or three shipments. two or three cars, maybe four cars, it depends on what they deployed tonight, they work 12 hour shifts, they are going to work 12 hours on the days they started and they will work a 12 hour shift, so it depends on what the deployment.

They go to the valleyOffice, they are going to travel from the valley, fortunately the traffic is very light at the moment, they don't have to bother with the traffic flow, but the fact is that they still have the responsibility of providing police service throughout the city. I can't say that all the whites and blacks in the city unit respond, they still have to maintain patrols within the city areas and send everything they can send and then the Metro Metropolitan Division that serves the entire city which they can call. them from home to respond, so they've been working these 12-hour shifts again, we had USC, we have UCLA, we have these situations happening, and the department has basically been on a mobilization where everyone will be required to wear a uniform, including the detectives, but it takes some time to get them together to respond to this, especially in a situation where there are so many of them and as soon as they see the female officers come in, many of those people will scatter, leave and the stalwarts want to stay, so they will be arrested Yeah, well, we can't wait to see law enforcement show up every time they do.

We're seeing the 2x4s thrown into camp. We've seen a lot of that tonight. We've seen a lot of pepper spray. Now we are hearing from the mayor who says that she has been in contact with Jean Blocky is the chancellor of UCLA. We have received a statement from UCLA from Vice Chancellor of Strategic Communications, Mary Osaka. We can I think we have to throw up that statement so you can see it at home. She says horrible acts of violence occurred in the camp tonight and we immediately called the police for Mutual Aid support, the fire department and medical personnel are on the scene.

I am sickened by this senseless violence and it must end, so Alex, have you been in contact with the mayor's office, giving us that statement or releasing that statement to the general public. We are still waiting to hear from the governor. We're waiting to hear from Gan, who is stuck as more of this Anarchy unfolds on the campus he was hired at and has paid a lot of money, a lot of money to supervise, but if you look at how this played out when they started setting up setting up camp was then when they should have said they weren't going to set up camp when they allowed that to happen and then they went back and forth and saw that yeah they just emboldened the people who were doing that and then the professional agitators.

They want to come in and create chaos, but when this started was when they should have shut it down. No, you will not be able to camp here overnight. That's not going to happen, so what happens is you get a little centimeter. a little a little bit and now we have what we are going through now that is embarrassing for the city of Los Angeles UCLA and then look where the LAPD is why the LAPD does not solve the problem well the university and the administration is the one that needs To stop this, no depend on the police to do the job they are supposed to do as administrators and the people who run UCLA, it is their responsibility to maintain a safe campus and Denis, we come in and clean up when they can't. do what they had to do and Dennis, that was my point earlier on our Broad when we talked about the broken windows theory of policing, something that I'm sure you're familiar with and that basically is that you can't just that's TRUE. once you see this happening and once they start gathering and then start getting combative, I mean, they should have responded, you say they should have responded immediately and made a call, a tactical call, that it is possible that we need help.

LAPD, wait, L can then. start putting together a plan, but now after almost hours or two hours it's like, oh let's wake up and do something, the cat's out of the barn, the barn's on fire, now let's put together what we can. down and there are so many and there are so many people that still criticize USC for making that decision because of the fact that the first day when they were setting up camp, they said no, you're not going to do that. here that is not what we are doing and they asked the PD for help and the LAPD entered at the time and place of his election and removed everyone in a peaceful manner and then they received a lot of pushback from everyone's politics. this from some of the students on campus who have allowed a kind of camping now on the USC campus but they closed the campus, they have been very, very clear in not allowing non-students to be there and they have taken a a lot of security measures that haven't been taken at UCLA, so UCLA's outcome is different with this because they have allowed this criminal element of people who are not students on campus to come onto campus, who are now part of this and they have shown no consequences for the people who set up an illegal camp in the first place nor for these violent agitators who oppose the people who have set up this camp and both have failed to follow the rules of what is supposed to happen in a campus and this pristine, you know, the Elite college experience now looks more like anarchy, and the leaders haven't said anything yet and we haven't exactly seen them yet, but that's what you look at the leaders that you mentioned.

Leaders of the world, where is the leadership when you need to do the right thing? And those students who have studied hard, parents have spent thousands of dollars to get them there and where will graduation be? Graduation won't be what it needs to be. and this campus will be surrounded and with the image that will continue throughout the country. Now I see that we have police officers, no, those are not those, they are security agents who have not really done, have not done anything, yes, private security that Gina Silva talked about or tried to anyway and they are not armed and they said that they were here just to stay here so we feel the same way we had the same reaction oh well there's some security or police at the scene and you see them there on the steps and they're just standing there so it looks like Sky Fox was treating someone further down, this live image here, due to the pepper spray, side effects and stinging.

All, not all, but some of them have been treated with it tonight. Chelsea Edwards certainly and Elliot Mendoza, the photographer, were pepper sprayed when we went on the air at 11: we had to give them a moment to uh. getting back together and finding their wits again, a very painful experience, it seems, it seems like a street fight, it literally seems like a street fight under Dennis and Dennis. I'm C. I'm curious about a mob scene that has become a Mob Scene. I'm curious. Well, let me read this real quick. I get an alert again and then I have a question for you, Dennis, around 10:55 p.m. m.

On Tuesday, private security told a Bruin reporter to call the Los Angeles police starting at 12:51 a.m. a member of the LAPD, do you have anything, Marlin? Well, I was just going to point out that UCLA Chancellor Jean is just a couple of weeks away from retiring, he's retiring from UCLA, which was announced last summer that he decided to step down from the helm of the top-ranked public university in the country, so apparently his last day on campus was supposed to be July 31st of this year, so I thought it was interesting to note, since this is happening on his campus that he has no control over, go ahead and Dennis let me ask you that last question if you're a member of the Los Angeles City Council right now, which you've also done, um, yeah, what would happen? through your mind in that perspective, uh and, in a way, knowing how the city works well, if I were still a Los Angeles city councilman, I would be there and I would call the West Los IST Watch Commander to tell him what you're doing. doing about it. situation, that's what I would have done is get there and determine what you're doing now.

I'm still a level one reserve officer, so I have the same rights, privileges and responsibility as a non-uniformed officer, but the fact is, what are you doing right? You haven't called us right why haven't you called us but watching this from 11:00 to see where it's getting now at 107 I this is in the city of angels this is embarrassing as can be but I look at UCLA the primary agency what are you doing and I saw when there were some UCLA police cars and they let them disappear, they left, you can't turn your back on this type of situation, it's like a fire, it gets worse, you have to do it. address it and you have to use the appropriate resources to contain and restore order.

This has become a circus and that is the problem. Yeah, I mean, at this point, let's get the National Guard in there long before you're going to bring. in the highway patrol, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, if it gets to that extent, they will bring in other people, but the LAPD has the resources to handle it, you just have to get them to that place and again they come from West. Bureau and where other offices are activating, they probably started an alert about an hour ago, but again, the LAPD still has to serve the entire city of Los Angeles with all the other types of calls that are made, the 911 calls will continue and we have fights all over this place there will be people hurt people hurt uh people going to the hospitals we've already seen the paramedics uh items thrown but this is what it is this is really embarrassing for UCLA and it's It's embarrassing that law enforcement didn't come there before and at the end of this catastrophe that we're watching live on Fox 11, it's embarrassing that's a good word for what we're seeing, you know, embarrassing, might be a better word and um it's really distressing, I think and this it's uh these are images that will be seen across the country um as a kind of flash point in this conflict and we have felt it as you do You know the pot continues to heat up uh and and um and you know someone needs to cool this situation down uh because someone he's going to be killed in one of these if it's not tonight it's another one of these demonstrations um and uh, because this is not sustainable, this type of setup that we're seeing right now, but as far as the graduation ceremony, a lot of these people couldn't graduate because of the pandemic, uh, and they may just cancel graduation. and let's say we send a mail to your depla, uh, so that the students who actually studied and got good results, are going to suffer consequences for this because who knows what demonstration will be held once they reach the graduation stage, which is right around the corner. corner, yes of course USC canceled their main start, but not their smaller starts.

UCLA starts later becauseThey have quarters that are in June. So far it's supposed to go on as scheduled, but as we know, things can change, so we've been It's past our bedtime tonight, I'm watching this, Dennis, we thank you, oh, we see a police officer arrive. highway patrol, we see two of them, yes, thank you, we appreciate you for your perspective tonight and for staying up late with us, it's very, very valuable, we know. Um, people not only here but across the country have been watching both of us on Fox 11 and I understand on Fox News Channel tonight, so we're going to be keeping tabs on this with our teams throughout the night. news from our management that it's time to wrap up our coverage coverage for now, but Good Day LA will have full coverage starting at 4:00 a.m. m., if not sooner, based on what we are seeing here on the UCLA campus, yes, and if they start at 4:00 a.m. m., that's just a couple more hours, so we thank you for being with us tonight as we have witnessed history on the UCLA campus in Westwood and the fight continues. there, but it was good to see at least two Highway Patrol officers stop by as we are now getting ready to sign off.

This started on Good Night, La at 11:00. I'm Marla Teas. I thank you for being with us with Alex. Michaelson is okay and I hope there is a somewhat peaceful solution to this. We will be aware of this. More updates at foxla.com. Good night all. We will be talking about this for a long time. Thanks for being. with us it's perfect for you, you don't want to wait, matys design studio is the speaker and all our chairs who will make sure this is a top priority for House Republicans. There can be no moral equivalence. It's time to send. a clear message to the world that antisemitism has no place in America, the world is truly watching and with that I'm going to hand it over to our whip Tom Emmer, thank you.

Our House Republican Conference is here today to deliver a message. to the pro-terrorist anti-Semites taking over our university campuses, we are here to deliver a message to university administrators who have chosen to be complicit in these hate movements rather than take action and we are here to deliver a message to Hamas Iran and the members of the team, including my Minnesota colleague Ilhan Omar, who have supported these anti-Semitic protests that enough is enough. Accountability is here. Our college campuses should never be breeding grounds for anti-Semitism, but that is exactly what they have become. because of University administrators who have refused to protect their Jewish students because of faculty members who have allowed the wave of anti-Semitic violence because of the administration, an administration that has tried to play both sides of this issue, and because far-left members of Congress who applaud anti-Semitism on college campuses;

In other words, it's because we have a group of adults in a room who refuse to be the adults in the room while no one else stands up to lead during this crucial moment in history. House Republicans would like to thank Chairman Johnson and our committee chairmen for providing us with much-needed help. responsibility on an issue that has been met with a disturbing amount of indifference and even encouragement from the people who are supposed to keep our students safe, the world is watching how we respond and I, for one, am grateful to be a part of a conference that will be on the right side of history and with that I hand the floor over to our leader Steve Scales, thank you.

Since October 7, when an Iranian-backed terrorist organization known as Hamas invaded Iran, Israel has seen a rising wave of anti-Semitism. obviously in Israel we saw a war declared against them and Israel said we are going to defend our state and you saw it by the way these colleagues here and many of my colleagues back home stand up and say we support Israel's right to defend itself as Jewish town. but something more alarming that started to happen after that was when we started taking action here and that's when you started to see anti-Semitism growing here in the United States, here on college campuses and, in fact, here in the homes of some from our colleagues on the other side and we have been speaking openly against it, this is an area where you have to learn from the mistakes of History because if you don't learn from the mistakes of History, we are all doomed to Repeat it, no let's forget what happened in the run up to World War II and when you see some of the things that these, whether you call them terrorist sympathizers, anarchists, they are organized when they show up and they all have the same kind of tents when they are all from out of state in many of these places where they appear, it is an organized mob that is trying to cause chaos and generate anti-Semitism and if we don't stand up to it everywhere we see it and, more importantly, if we don't call those people whose main job is to protect the people they are tasked with policing, look at these university presidents, you know, and we are asking all of our committee chairs to investigate the billions of federal taxpayers. dollars that go to these universities and part of the reason they go to these universities is so that they can provide a good education for their students so that they can provide a safe environment for their students and if these presidents do not provide that safe environment then Those University presidents must go, they must resign and we have been very explicit in asking them to also resign because they are not only failing their students but they are dishonoring the universities, many of these universities that for a long time have stored reputations that are being tarnished, many of them permanently, students, parents who no longer even send their children to these schools because their children are no longer safe and we are seeing it today on many campuses throughout the country, but Here in this house with our majority we are going to continue holding these people responsible for the money they receive and for the failures they are causing, if you look at what happened and at least we mentioned it a little before. over a billion people watch that video that she talked about over a billion people watched a congressional hearing they like to think there's such high interest in every congressional hearing we have, but America is watching and still More than that, the world is watching and that is why we must continue. show the moral clarity between right and wrong and denounce antisemitism and attacks against the Jewish people and anyone else for their faith and who they are and stand up to the people who are doing it and leading the charge, the person who she had the first hearing in her committee months ago uh she is the chair of the education and workforce committee someone is tough after people are doing all this Virginia Fox thank you St.

I want to thank the speaker also for making this a topic of the whole home. It's a problem for the entire House, it's a problem for our country, as Republican leaders we have a clear message to my slack-jawed, spineless college leaders. Congress will not tolerate your failure to fulfill your duty to your Jewish students. American universities have officially received notice that we have arrived. to recover our universities. I applaud the speaker for expanding the education and labor committee. The force's ongoing investigation into a congressional-wide initiative should leave no stone unturned as buildings are defaced, campus green spaces are captured or graduations are ruined.

The university is not a park. for acting as a juvenile or a battleground for radical activists, everyone affiliated with these universities will receive a good dose of reality. Actions have consequences. One of those consequences is that I have notified you to report to Yale, UCLA, and Michigan to appear before the Education Task Force. committee on May 23 for a hearing on its handling of these most recent outrages. I look forward to working with my fellow House leaders on further action to address these unrest and I give way to Frank Lucas, thank you Madam Speaker and thank you Speaker Johnson for taking action on this important issue at this time Jewish students facing harassment, discrimination and in some cases violence in our colleges and universities, this anti-Semitism is unacceptable and goes against who we are as Americans.

We entrust our colleges and universities with conducting scientific research and educating the next generation of leaders and innovators. They cannot do that when students are kicked off campus for shocking displays of anti-Semitism. Additionally, universities that cannot protect their students fail to meet their funding obligations through the National Science Foundation. Funding through NSF represents about 25% of all federal support to U.S. colleges and universities for basic research as part of the conditions for receiving taxpayer dollars through NSF. Colleges must comply with title six of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of grounds. Race, Color, and National Origin schools like Columbia and UC Berkeley receive more than $50 million each in NSF grants annually.

It is time for us to review whether universities that allow harassment, assault, or intimidation of their Jewish students are complying with their federal obligations. We hope to carry out monitoring of this issue very soon. Thank you for your time here today and I now turn to my fellow President Kathy McMorris Rogers for