LOS ANGELES, May 24 (Reuters) - Three weeks after a mob attacked pro-Palestinian activists encamped at the University of California, Los Angeles, police have made their first arrest in the violence, a man they say was seen in video footage beating victims with a wooden pole.

The suspect, identified as Edan On, 18, was taken into custody on Thursday in the city of Beverly Hills and booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, the UCLA Police Department said in a statement on Friday.

The man, who police said had no affiliation with UCLA, was reported by local media to be a Beverly Hills High School student.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    884·
    27 days ago

    UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, testifying Thursday before a U.S. congressional hearing into the protests, said his school should have been prepared to immediately remove the protest encampment “if and when the safety of our community was put at risk.”

    The violence took place two days after a pro-Israel group, the Israeli American Council, held a rally next to the UCLA encampment, with the council’s leader, Elan Carr, urging his supporters to “take back our campuses" from pro-Palestinian protesters. Scuffles broke out between the two sides.

    So zionists showed up, said people should attack peaceful protesters, then attacked the peaceful protestors, and days later came back with weapons for a coordinated early morning attack…

    So the cops then raid the peaceful protesters?

    And the schools take away was “we should have had the cops attack earlier”

    Fucking insane.

    This is what happens when foreign countries buy both parties and take over our education system. It’s no coincidence all these schools are siding with the genociders.

    • Nobody@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      27 days ago

      The problem with peaceful protests is that they attract violent people who attack them. So, TPTB ban the peaceful protestors.

      What happens if a select few of the peaceful protestors happened to be armed in places where doing so publicly is legal? The peaceful protestors are protected from violence by a select few exercising their second amendment right to bear arms. Pretty hard to ban those peaceful protestors.

      • Acrimonious@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        27 days ago

        The black Panthers tried that. Not saying it shouldn’t be done again but let’s learn from what happened to them.

        • crypticthree@lemmy.world
          English
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          27 days ago

          The Panthers were systematically killed by the state for a reason. They were an actual threat to the status quo.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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        27 days ago

        Pretty easy to start shooting at them with their rooftop snipers though.

        Don’t start a shooting war with the cops. It doesn’t help the movement for peace and you won’t win.

  • Pogogunner@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    27 days ago

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/edan-on-18-arrested-for-violent-attack-on-uclas-pro-palestine-encampment

    “Edan went to bully the Palestinian students in the tents at UCLA and played the song that they played to the Nukhba terrorists in prison!” his mother proudly wrote on Facebook in a since-deleted post, accompanied by a screenshot of news footage from a local station. In the post, she identified her son by circling his figure in the screenshot of the news feed, CNN reported.

    On was identified by CNN last week as one of the attackers. He is not a student but a local high school senior, his mother told CNN, though she later denied he was at the protest at all.

    Thanks for exhibit A, mom.