STORY: :: Police eject Pro-Palestinian protesters at UC Irvine from a building they had occupied for several hours
:: Irvine, California
:: May 15, 2024
:: Witnesses said officers also cleared a two-week-old student encampment
Students chanted slogans, banged drums and hoisted banners, with rows of police standing nearby, Reuters witnessed.
Officers from about 10 nearby law-enforcement agencies converged on the campus after university officials requested help because protesters had occupied the lecture hall, leading the school to declare it a "violent protest," police and university officials said.
About four hours later, police had ejected the protesters from both the lecture hall and the plaza that had been the site of the encampment, according to the university and Reuters witnesses.
The university said all classes would be held remotely on Thursday, asking employees not to come to campus.
