Police, College Officials Say Campus Clashes Stoked by ‘Outside Agitators’

Helmeted police in riot gear have restored order at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) following a night of clashes between counter-demonstrators and pro-Palestinian protesters . The skirmishes embroiled the Westwood campus in hours-long chaos of swinging pipes, pepper spray and fireworks. By daybreak, police from dozens of Los Angeles-area law enforcement agencies were in force at UCLA, where university officials were sorting through the havoc that unfolded early May 1 after they declared “unlawful” the “Palestinian Solidarity Encampment” erected on campus April 25 by pro-Palestinian protesters. While all was calm at UCLA, the scene was anything but tranquil at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where police were deploying “chemical irritant” munitions against protesters....