"It is only due to divine grace that there were no deaths" : clashes in Los Angeles on the sidelines of pro-Palestinian student demonstrations
Violent clashes took place on the night of Tuesday April 30 to Wednesday May 1 on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles. Clashes between pro-Palestinian demonstrators, who occupy a campus esplanade, and a group of pro-Israeli counter-protesters.
At the beginning of the afternoon on Wednesday May 1, professors came to read to the press a letter addressed to the president of the university, guilty according to them of not protecting the students. One of them testifies to the incidents of the night. “What I saw was brutal. It is only due to divine grace that there were no deaths”we hear.
A group of pro-Israel demonstrators attempted to disrupt this press conference, the only moment of tension on a quiet day on the UCLA campus, with a heavy police presence, members of law enforcement observing the surroundings from the roof of buildings. A calm very different from the images broadcast on social networks all night.
Shortly before midnight on Tuesday, pro-Israeli demonstrators, dressed in black and masked, arrived on campus. They fired fireworks at the encampment, shook barriers, beat students and used pepper spray. For Taï, one of the students in the camp, with a keffiyeh on her shoulders, the attack by those she calls “the Zionists” was not a surprise after six days of occupation.
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