Campus Police Union Demands Legal Action After UCLA Protest Leads to 44 Arrests

The Federated University Police Officer’s Association (FUPOA) has demanded that legal action be taken after 44 people were arrested during a recent pro-Palestinian protest at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The FUPOA, representing campus police officers at the 10 University of California schools, said that police prevented “an organized group of 44 individuals” from occupying a building on UCLA’s campus on May 6. “The group, armed with multiple tools and written guidebooks on building takeover tactics, was intercepted before they could carry out their plans,” the FUPOA said in a statement to The Epoch Times on May 9. The university has decided to transition all classes to remote learning for the remainder of the week because of the “severity of the incident,” the organization stated....