Midnight here and campus chaos continues, you are looking screen right at a live shot of the campus of ucla, where Hundreds Of Police Clad in riot gear have been massed for several hours now, apparently waiting for the final order to go in and dismantle the encampment. Set up almost a week ago by propalestinian protesters. But as yet, they have not made the move. On the campus itself is our correspondent, bill melugin. He has been there for hours now. Bill and as we watch and wait, bill, i wonder if you have noticed any change in the posture over the last couple of hours or are we simply where we have been with the Skirmish Lines and no movement . Jonathan, good evening to you. I can tell you its gotten eerily quiet. All the protesters behind us, hundreds of them have stopped all their chants. They had been chanting for hours, free palestine, free palestine. Now its kind of quiet and eerie, and you get the sense that it could potentially be the calm before the storm. If police do end u
Newsom accused the police of being too slow to respond, after Counter Demonstrators attacked the camp on tuesday night. In texas, riot police broke up a similar encampment, accusing the demonstrators of breaching trespass laws. Lets hear from our correspondent helena humphrey, who is at the ucla campus live for us. Hello, welcome to you. Just in the last while, we understand there has been a number of new police, to support the ranks already there . That is right. In terms of who exactly those officers are, you were describing the california Highway Patrol, we understand they are those people who will be going in to the encampment, where here, we can also see the presence of the lapd as well, to really enforce security. What you can see behind me is a human chain that has been developing in the last few moments. That is to resist further movement of the police, people have been telling me because you can see over in this direction, it is that stand off, but is continuing with police. W
When the protesters broke into the historic Hamilton Hall building. And just a few hours ago, 9 p. M. Tuesday night, officers in riot gear end to that building and swiftly made arrests. Columbia university has, of course, been the epicenter to the propalestinian protests that have now spread to campus. Around the country, hundreds of students have been arrested nationwide, and upcoming commencements are in danger of being canceled. Lets get straight to fox news correspond and rich edson for the latest on that raid at columbia. Hello, rich. Hello, jonathan. Columbia University Says the heightened activity on campus has ended and that the area has been cleared. This past evening, hundreds of new York City Police officers arrested dozens of protesters whod occupied and barricaded themselves in a Columbia University building. Officers scaled a Massive Police vehicle to enter columbias Hamilton Hall from a second floor window and then let out the protesters in zip ties. The University Says
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