Nearly 200 police officers in riot gear broke up a pro-Palestinian encampment on Monday at the University of California San Diego.
The confrontation was large enough to cause university officials to move classes online and close vehicle access to the campus west of Interstate 5. Some 65 people were arrested with several hundred protesters marching downtown to continue their chants of “let them go” in front of the county jail.
“I am a faculty member, but today they are my teacher,” said Gary Fields, a UCSD professor who teaches a class on dissent and protest, referring to the students outside the jail. He told the San Diego Tribune that school administrators had “turned the police on a completely peaceful and legal demonstration.”
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