SINCE THE DEMONSTRATIONS BEGAN. TONIGHT WE TAKE YOU
INTO THE CHAOS.
HERE IS LIZ KREUTZ.
>> Reporter: WITH THE
CLASHES BETWEEN
COLLEGE CAMPUS
DEMONSTRATORS AND
POLICE REACHING NEW
HEIGHTS, TODAY
PRESIDENT BIDEN
CONDEMNING VIOLENT
DISRUPTIVE PROTESTS.
>> VANDALISM,
TRESPASSING, BREAKING
WINDOWS, SHUTTING DOWN
CAMPUSES, FORCING THE
CANCELLATION OF
CLASSES AND
GRADUATIONS, NONE OF
THIS IS A PEACEFUL
PROTEST.
THREATENING PEOPLE,
INTIMIDATING PEOPLE,
INSTILLING FEAR IN
PEOPLE IS NOT A
PEACEFUL PROTEST.
IT’S AGAINST THE LAW.
>> Reporter: DOZENS OF
UNIVERSITIES AND
COLLEGES ACROSS THE
COUNTRY CONTINUING TO
GRAPPLE WITH HOW TO
HANDLE THE GROWING
MOVEMENT OF
PRO-PALESTINIAN
DEMONSTRATORS.
THIS MORNING AT UCLA,
LAW ENFORCEMENT
BREACHING THE MASSIVE
ENCAMPMENT JUST BEFORE
DAWN.
>> ALL RIGHT, POLICE
IF RIOT GEAR RIGHT
NOW.
YOU HEAR THE
FLASH-BANGS, BUT
POLICE ARE BREACHING
THE BARRIER, TRYING TO
MAKE THEIR WAY INTO
THE ENCAMPMENT.
THE STUDENTS THOUGH,
THEY’RE PUSHING BACK
AND TRYING TO HOLD THE
LINE.
>> Reporter:
DEMONSTRATOR, MANY OF
THEM IN HARD HELMETS
AND GAS MASKS
APPEARING TO USE FIRE
EXTINGUISHERS AIMED AT
POLICE, TRYING TO FEND
THEM OFF.
POLICE PUSHING BACK
WITH OVERWHELMING
NUMBERS.
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY
PATROL OFFICERS MAKING
HUNDREDS OF ARRESTS.
>> WE’RE NOT GOING
BACK DOWN.
WE HAVE TO BE FORCE.
>> Reporter: STUDENTS
DEMANDING DWIS INGING DEFENSIVE
FROM ISRAEL, AND
ASKING SUPPORTERS TO
BRING THEM SPLICE,
INCLUDING MATERIALS
FOR SHIELDS, UMBRELLAS
AND WATER.
TODAY THE CAMPUS LEFT
COVERED IN TRASH AND
BUSTED TENTS.
THE UNIVERSITY’S
ICONIC ROYCE HALL
DEFACED WITH GRAFFITI.
SOME ARRESTED NOW
RELEASED FROM A
DOWNTOWN JAIL SPEAKING
OUT.
>> HOW DO I FEEL?
I’VE NEVER FELT MORE
PROUD OF MYSELF OR MY
COMMUNITY.
>> Reporter: ACROSS
THE COUNTRY AT
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN
NEW YORK, THE NYPD
TODAY RELEASING
PORTIONS OF BODY CAM
VIDEO FROM TUESDAY
NIGHT’S RAID TO CLEAR
HAMILTON HALL.
POLICE FINDING
PROTESTERS SITTING ON
THE GROUND WITH ARMS
LINKED.
NATIONWIDE, MORE THAN
2100 ARRESTS HAVE BEEN
MADE CONNECTED WITH
CAMPUS PROTESTS.
TODAY PORTLAND STATE
UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
CLOSED DOWN AS POLICE
MADE 12 ARRESTS AND
CLEARED THE SCHOOL’S
LIBRARY.
OVERNIGHT, FOUR
ARRESTED AT YALE.
90 REMOVED FROM CAMPUS
AT DARTMOUTH.
AND AT THE UNIVERSITY
OF WISCONSIN’S MADISON
CAMPUS, DEFIANT
STUDENTS
REESTABLISHING THEIR
TENTS JUST 24 HOURS
AFTER POLICE DISBANDED
THE ENCAMPMENT THERE.
>> WE’RE GOING TO BE
HERE INDEFINITELY
UNTIL THEY MEET OUR
DEMANDS.
>> Reporter: BACK AT
UCLA, CLEANUP IS UNDER
WAY.
PROFESSOR GRAHAM
BLAIR, WHO WAS
ARRESTED THIS MORNING
IN THE ENCAMPMENT, IS
DEFENDING THE
STUDENTS’ RIGHT TO
PROTEST, DESPITE SOME
OF THE TACTICS THEY’VE
USED.
>> I THINK ANYONE WHO
IS WORRIED ABOUT
GRAFFITI ON BUILDINGS
ON A COLLEGE CAMPUS
NEEDS TO COME VISIT A
COLLEGE CAMPUS.
IT’S 18-YEAR-OLDS WHO
ARE LEARNING FOR THE
FIRST TIME HOW TO
EXPRESS THEMSELVES.
>> LIZ, WHAT IS UCLA
SAYING WHAT PLAYED OUT
THERE THIS MORNING?
>> WELL, LESTER, THE
UCLA CHANCELLOR SAYS
THAT PROTESTERS WERE
GIVEN SEVERAL WARNINGS
TO LEAVE, AND THAT
ULTIMATELY THE
ENCAMPMENT HERE WAS
UNLAWFUL AND HAD
BECOME A HUGE
DISRUPTION HERE ON