Dozens of police officers dismantled an encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters from the University of California, Santa Barbara campus early Sunday morning, according to videos and social media posts from protest groups.
University officials did not return calls Sunday afternoon. Officials sent a message to a group calling itself the UC Santa Barbara Liberation Zone, saying the camp violated university policy and that protesters were trespassing.
according to Group posts Instagram showed dozens of police officers arriving on campus just after 1 a.m. Sunday. The protest group said police “issued four dispersal notices to the campers and then began entering the camp”.
after video program Workers dumped tents into large garbage trucks.
The group said six protesters had been arrested but could not immediately confirm that to police on Sunday afternoon.
In April, hundreds of protesters occupied the university’s Student Resource Building on Thursday for a daylong series of workshops, art projects and other actions to express solidarity with the Palestinians, call for a ceasefire and demand an end to ties with Israel. investment. Demonstrators set up camp in May.
Sunday’s police action was the latest after weeks of protests by pro-Palestinian demonstrators at universities across the country.
