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Campus protests live: Slow UCLA law enforcement response 'unacceptable', says Newsom - BBC News Campus protests live: Slow UCLA law enforcement response 'unacceptable', says Newsom - BBC News
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Dozens of college campuses across the US have been taken over by students protesting against the war in Gaza. Tom Bateman
At many universities, students are demanding that their schools financially divest -- or cut financial ties -- from Israel. Reporting from Dallas
Some student activists say that companies doing business in Israel or with Israeli organisations are complicit in its ongoing war in Gaza. Thus, they argue that colleges become complicit to the war when they invest in those same companies. We're here in Dallas at the University of Texas at a peaceful protests where about 150 to 200 protesters were chanting, singing and waving flags.
The university administration then handed out a notice telling protesters the tent and the encampment they had created had to be removed immediately because they're in breach of university protocol.
We then saw state troopers armed with batons, with zip ties and in riot gear, who then began to move in on this encampment in waves.
They forced down the barricades that protesters had put up and they're ripping down gazebos and tents at the moment.
Some protesters were then forcibly taken down by the state authorities.
The effect of the state troopers has utterly changed the mood. There's a lot of anger now and chants of "shame of you", "where were you in Uvalde" and "why are you in riot gear" are now echoing in Dallas.
We're on the ground in Dallas and will keep you updated.
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