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Abené Clayton in Los Angeles

The morning after police crackdown on a UCLA protest camp: ‘A lot of us are struggling’

A large Black man folks up tent poles on a lawn completely covered with tents and debris, alongside a stone and red-brick building.
Workers clean up the UCLA campus on 2 May 2024 after police arrested and removed pro-Palestinian students. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images

At the University of California in Los Angeles on Thursday morning, staff were picking up the pieces after two nights of violence that shocked the urban campus.

A loader heaved the remnants of the Gaza protest encampment that law enforcement had forcefully cleared early in the morning into a large grey dumpster. Pieces of plywood spray-painted with “We love you Gaza” and “ACAB” (“all cops are bastards”) still lay about.

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