developed over the last hour or so, police have moved into columbia university to move those pro-palestinian demonstrators out of the building that they have occupied since last night, hundreds and hundreds of law enforcement course. but you can see have swarmed onto the campus or in the case of the screen, you re looking at right now, the picture you re looking at right now, just off campus, we have seen law enforcement move people onto buses, presumably under arrest. we ve also seen the police simply move people off the bus and let them go on their way. we have dean no violent encounters, but billy, between police and protesters as of now when we have seen police move into hamilton hall itself, that is the building that was occupied overnight by these protesters. let me read you a statement from columbia university which explains how this all has been taking place over the last hour or the statement reads a little after 9:00 p.m. this evening, the nypd arrived on campus at
preferred better science, better results i m elizabeth wagmeister in los angeles in this cnn s breaking news hello, and a warm welcome to all of us joining us around the world. i, max foster, it is 1 may 9:00 a.m. here in london, 1:00 a.m. in los angeles julie s where protests on the campus at ucla are turning violence. as you can see, according to local media, things came to a head about two hours go when pro-palestinian and pro-israeli protesters got into a confrontation kabc reports fireworks were thrown inside the pro-palestinian encampment campus police say they re responding to the incident of course, college campuses across the us having swept with protests over the last several weeks, but we haven t seen this level of violence up until now demonstrators demanding an end to the war in gaza and for their universities to divest from israel as well, we re trying to get a proper sense of what s happening on the ground. they are clearly clashes between protesters and othe
being the strategic response officers were seeing more arrived now and get information the question now obviously is, when do they have the green light to go in? we don t know. we are expecting it at any moment and we keep seeing the officers move around, but it s not entirely clear where they re going, so okay. we re just going to walk this way again because i don t want to get we re going to check in one keep us an form. we re going to check in with julia vargas jones, who is on campus outside hamilton hall. julia i m just wondering if any how are you what are the last few minutes been like anything you ve been seeing? we saw a large movement anderson of students all the way to the one 14 gate that s the one that shimon was mentioning there is police presence over there on that side. you see people just walking, trying to see if this trying to figure out where police will come in from and where they will be. the safest, honestly, a lot of a lot of the students that went
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forward with indycar because we re with everybody xiao powering progress i m melanie zanona in washington and this is cnn on your screen right now, you can see what we ve been watching develop over the last hour or so, police have moved into columbia university to move those pro-palestinian demonstrators out of the building that they ve occupied since last night, hundreds and hundreds of law enforcement. you can see have swarmed onto the campus or in the case of the screen, you re looking at right now, the picture you re looking at right now, just off campus, we have seen law enforcement move people onto buses presumably under arrest. we ve also seen the police simply move people off the campus and let them go on their way. we have seen no violent encounters but billy, between police and protesters as of now, when we have seen police move into hamilton hall itself, that is the building that was occupied overnight by these protesters. let me read you a statement from columbi