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<p class="nt-timeline-title">Camp Established</p>
<span class="nt-timeline-sub-title">April 25</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">Early Thursday morning, UCLA students and employees set up tents on Dickson Court outside Royce Hall, establishing Palestine Solidarity Encampment. <br><br>
UCLA issues a BruinALERT: "We're actively monitoring this situation to support a safe and peaceful campus environment that respects our community's right to free expression while minimizing disruption to our teaching and learning mission."
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<p class="nt-timeline-title">UCLA Issues First Statement</p>
<span class="nt-timeline-sub-title">April 26</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">UCLA issues <a href="https://newsroom.ucla.edu/ucla-statement-about-encampment-on-campus-april-26">a statement</a> on the encampment, including: "we are following University of California systemwide policy guidance, which directs us not to request law enforcement involvement preemptively, and only if absolutely necessary to protect the physical safety of our campus community"
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<p class="nt-timeline-title">Peaceful Demonstration</p>
<p class="nt-timeline-content">The first phase of the encampment is marked by education and solidarity - with daily programming including teach-ins and multi-faith prayer. Counter-protesters are almost continuously present around the encampment day and night, and organizers are careful to de-escalate the few small scuffles between groups, but some injuries are reported among members of the encampment and counter-protesters.
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<p class="nt-timeline-title">First Major Counter-demonstration</p>
<span class="nt-timeline-sub-title">April 28</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">Several groups organize a <a href="https://dailybruin.com/2024/04/27/counter-protests-of-ucla-encampment-raise-over-50000-on-gofundme">counter-demonstration</a> after raising $50,000 ($98,000 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240514011726/https://www.gofundme.com/f/ucla-counter-protest">at the time of writing</a>) to fund a stage, jumbotron and loudspeakers for the event. Barricades separating the crowds of thousands are <a href="https://dailybruin.com/2024/04/28/protesters-counter-protesters-clash-as-they-converge-upon-ucla-encampment">breached</a> multiple times, and violence <a href="https://x.com/ACatWithNews/status/1784680676106870952">escalates</a> as private security officers fail to maintain a barrier between protesters and counter-protesters.
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<p class="nt-timeline-title">Psychological Warfare</p>
<span class="nt-timeline-sub-title">April 28-May 1</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">The jumbotron and loudspeakers are allowed to stay on Dickson court throughout the week, playing footage from October 7th and sounds like <a href="https://youtu.be/_jL8cDm5Th4">babies crying</a> on repeat through the day and night to prevent sleep, a <a href="https://lapublicpress.org/2024/05/two-nights-of-violence-at-uclas-solidarity-encampment/">known torture tactic</a>.
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<p class="nt-timeline-title">Encampment Declared Illegal</p>
<span class="nt-timeline-sub-title">April 30</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">UCLA declares the encampment illegal and warns everyone to leave.</p>
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<h2 id="april-30-the-encampment-is-attacked">April 30 - The Encampment is Attacked</h2>
<p>All times approximate.</p>
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<span class="nt-timeline-sub-title">10:40pm
</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">Members of the encampment are <a href="https://x.com/m0thercity/status/1785593008693579901">peacefully occupying the camp</a>, when a crowd begins to <a href="https://youtu.be/C5LLK2SogPs?t=425">tear apart the barricade</a> surrounding the encampment. Members of the encampment reinforce the barricades, and private security halfheartedly tries to re-establish the buffer between the groups but do nothing to intervene.
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<p class="nt-timeline-title">Police Notified</p>
<span class="nt-timeline-sub-title">10:45pm
</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">Administrative Vice Chancellor Michael Beck <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-07/a-ucla-timeline-from-peaceful-encampment-to-violent-attacks-aftermath">requests assistance</a> from LAPD Chief John Thomas, LASD, Beverly Hills, Culver City and Santa Monica Police Departments.
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<span class="nt-timeline-sub-title">10:50pm
</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">Private security abandons the area, and the metal barricades outside of the encampment are completely removed. Attacks come in waves, with attackers retreating into Dickson plaza, and then returning in force to attack the barricades together. Attackers alternate between tearing down the barricade and attacking students and staff in the encampment with pipes, boards, lasers, <a href="https://youtu.be/C5LLK2SogPs?t=901">bear mace, skunk spray,</a> and <a href="https://youtu.be/C5LLK2SogPs?t=1455">Tasers</a>. Throughout the attack, members and organizers of the encampment do not pursue the attackers, maintaining their barricades.
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<p class="nt-timeline-title">Private Security Leave</p>
<span class="nt-timeline-sub-title">10:53pm
</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">Campus security guards <a href="https://lapublicpress.org/2024/05/two-nights-of-violence-at-uclas-solidarity-encampment/">leave the scene,</a> or stand on the sidelines and watch.
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<p class="nt-timeline-title">Fireworks Begin</p>
<span class="nt-timeline-sub-title">11:00pm
</span><p class="nt-timeline-content"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/us/ucla-protests-encampment-violence.html">Attackers launch large mortar fireworks directly into the encampment,</a> knocking a student <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-10/how-social-media-rumors-sparked-a-night-of-mayhem-at-ucla">unconscious</a> and hospitalizing her with a concussion after one explodes feet from her head.
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<p class="nt-timeline-title">UCPD Arrives, Leaves</p>
<span class="nt-timeline-sub-title">11:15pm
</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">Two UCPD police cars arrive with an ambulance, treat someone, and <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-10/how-social-media-rumors-sparked-a-night-of-mayhem-at-ucla">leave 4 minutes later</a>.
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<span class="nt-timeline-sub-title">11:27pm, continuous
</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">Injured students are being continuously carried out of the encampment to seek medical attention as no further ambulances are arriving, allegedly <a href="https://x.com/m0thercity/status/1785581710673162593">blocked by UCPD</a>. Attackers <a href="https://x.com/joeyneverjoe/status/1785556603602661422">throw a firework</a> directly at an injured student on a makeshift gurney.
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<p class="nt-timeline-title">LAPD Chief Arrives, Officers Told to Wait</p>
<span class="nt-timeline-sub-title">12:00am
</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">LAPD chief Thomas arrives on campus <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-07/a-ucla-timeline-from-peaceful-encampment-to-violent-attacks-aftermath">shortly before midnight</a> asking officers on the scene "why they couldn't go in with the officers they had, and the lieutenant told him he was directed to wait."
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<p class="nt-timeline-title">Attackers Pick Off Students As They Reinforce Barricades</p>
<span class="nt-timeline-sub-title">12:30AM, continuous
</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">As the students in the encampment try and reinforce their barricades, <a href="https://x.com/ACatWithNews/status/1785577318121119787">attackers pick them off</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/us/ucla-protests-encampment-violence.html">pulling them into mobs</a>, spraying chemical irritants and hitting them with pipes and boards.
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<span class="nt-timeline-sub-title">12:32am
</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">A man on the LAPD police scanner says they "<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/05/11/ucla-protests-police-inaction-fights/">might want to launch a UCLA unit</a>." Attacks intensify further, the crowd in the hundreds.
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<span class="nt-timeline-sub-title">1:43am
</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">A line of CHP and LAPD officers begin lining up on the far end of Dickson Court near Portola Plaza. Attacks have been continuous and escalating since they began, and <a href="https://abc7.com/videoClip/14749795/">continue</a> in plain view of the assembled police. Some attackers are masked, but many are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/v3bAl2VshnA?t=6348">plainly identifiable</a>.
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<span class="nt-timeline-sub-title">2:00am, continuous
</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">On the other side of the attack at the Tongva Steps, <a href="https://itsgoingdown.org/the-cops-brought-guns-ucla-report/">students continued to resupply the encampment</a> with water, masks, food, and goggles - fearless in the face of violence.
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<span class="nt-timeline-sub-title">2:45am
</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">An hour after beginning to assemble, and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/05/11/ucla-protests-police-inaction-fights/">four hours</a> after the attack began, CHP and LAPD officers begin <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/d5YNEoTqMZ4?t=2259">advancing</a> on the encampment. Attacks persist. Attackers are allowed to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/d5YNEoTqMZ4?t=3297">walk away</a> without interference through the advancing police line. Attackers on megaphones can be heard on live streams <a href="https://youtu.be/C5LLK2SogPs?t=9942">telling people to get out of the way of the police</a>, saying <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/unD1Aj4I5Ys?t=4806">"once the police take them out, we'll be done with our job"</a> suggesting their intent was to provoke a police response to clear the encampment.
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<span class="nt-timeline-sub-title">3:30am
</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">The attackers are mostly gone, and the remaining police <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/d5YNEoTqMZ4?t=6488">hold a perimeter</a> at the eastern side of Dickson Court.</p>
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<p>"The medic team treated at least 29 distinct patients, according to another volunteer who requested anonymity. Fifteen people had serious injuries requiring hospitalization and 10 people had suffered blunt head trauma, she reported, and five people had lacerations "large and deep enough" to require stitching at the hospital." - <a href="https://lapublicpress.org/2024/05/two-nights-of-violence-at-uclas-solidarity-encampment/">LA Public Press.</a></p>
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<span class="nt-timeline-sub-title">6:00pm
</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">Thousands of students, faculty, staff, and community members rally on the Tongva Steps and Portola Plaza in defense of the encampment. Police have taken and held the east side of Dickson Plaza in between supporters and the encampment. Rumors circulate the police have planned to begin the sweep at 6PM, but 6 comes and goes with no movement.
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</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">Organizers warn people with the lowest risk tolerance to leave, as police officers continually pour into Haines and Kaplan hall on the ease side of Dickson Court. EMTs are put on alert for a sweep sometime between 1-6AM. Supportive crowds chant on both sides of the encampment. A small crowd of roughly a dozen counter-protesters to the east tries to antagonize the crowd which vastly outnumbers them as organizers try to de-escalate and hold the line.
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</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">Taking the resting and quiet crowd of supporters around Tongva stairs mostly by surprise, a line of officers in riot gear bypass an undertrained and inexperienced UAW security team by walking up the grass and cutting through the bushes at the top of the stairs, above the point which had been cleared to allow people to escape, and enter the encampment. The first flashbang of the night explodes in the southwest corner of Dickson Court.
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</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">Surrounded, the police officers on the west end of the encampment are <a href="https://x.com/PplsCityCouncil/status/1785964919273451690">forced out</a> and <a href="https://x.com/FilmThePoliceLA/status/1785958000273887733">down the stairs</a>. If the west end of the kettle were to have held, there would have been no avenue of escape for the many in the encampment that would flee the ensuing violence down the stairs through the night. This likely prevented the ~200 arrests from being ~500, and allowed those injured by the police to seek help. The Tongva and Fowler stairs are <a href="https://itsgoingdown.org/the-cops-brought-guns-ucla-report/">reinforced</a> by <a href="https://x.com/FilmThePoliceLA/status/1785976048007749972">supporters</a> and hold through the night despite <a href="https://x.com/FilmThePoliceLA/status/1786010332881912274">concerted efforts</a> to force through up the Fowler stairs.
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</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">The police have had uncontested access to the reinforced east side of the encampment all night, and they begin disassembling the barricade. According to sources listening to police scanners, "it's go time." CHP officers begin pushing away the crowds that have assembled on Portola Plaza, shoving and clubbing as they go. The crowd of supporters are pushed to lines near the music building in the south. The walkway between Haines and Campbell Hall has been blocked off to stage police vehicles. The north walkway between Royce and Haines is blocked off by police, and the south walkway between Powell and Kaplan is blocked by hired security. The Tongva stairs are the only possible entrance to the camp. Information among those outside breaks down, and it becomes difficult to coordinate aid to the camp --- there are too many police to know where they're coming from.
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<span class="nt-timeline-sub-title">3:40am
</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">Hundreds of aerial flashbangs are <a href="https://x.com/HuntedHorse/status/1785983464795501039">fired low overhead</a> almost continuously. The air is filling up with smoke and haze from the explosives, irritants, and fire extinguishers. Injured and bleeding students begin to trickle through the south exit and Tongva steps. The police have made the encampment into a warzone. <a href="https://x.com/SJPatUCLA/status/1786097688913867232">Multiple</a> students are <a href="https://x.com/HuntedHorse/status/1785996746952429875">shot</a> in the head</a> and <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-03/injuries-during-clearing-of-ucla-encampment">chest</a> at close range as the officers <a href="https://twitter.com/EyeonPalestine/status/1786020394475905517?">fire rubber bullets indiscriminately into the haze</a>. The police would later <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-03/injuries-during-clearing-of-ucla-encampment">plainly lie</a>, claiming they never fired rubber bullets, but the dozens of injured and thousands of witnesses tell a different story. Again individual members of the encampment are <a href="https://x.com/MrOlmos/status/1786007572711186564">picked off</a>, but this time by the Police. They are cuffed and <a href="https://lapublicpress.org/2024/05/two-nights-of-violence-at-uclas-solidarity-encampment/">dragged across the cement</a> to be arrested.
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</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">The eastern barricade of the encampment is <a href="https://x.com/MrOlmos/status/1785993119760302416">breached</a> and the officers file through, facing off with the remaining members of the camp who, despite the violence, hold the line, linking arms. Police on a raised area continue to <a href="https://x.com/MrOlmos/status/1785996617168171392">shoot into the crowd</a> despite being <a href="https://x.com/MrOlmos/status/1785997668122321032">unchallenged</a>. From across Dickson, people perched on the Powell scaffolding can see police firing rubber bullets at nearly point blank range in the east end of Royce walkway where press have been pushed away and the officers shine bright lights to dazzle cameras.
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</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">The doors of Royce are finally breached and police file in from the north. Everyone caught in the middle is arrested. Those who avoid arrest flee west, being flanked, and officers <a href="https://x.com/HuntedHorse/status/1786000568860975327">fire flashbangs</a> over their heads as they walk away. A student with a mutilated finger is seen walking down the Tongva steps. As the crowd reaches the steps, the flashbangs get lower and are feet over the head of press and legal observers. The last remaining people try and rebuild a final barricade to protect those that fled, and the Fowler stairs are finally lost as the police make it to the west end of Dickson plaza.
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</span><p class="nt-timeline-content">Police roam through the camp with knives, cutting open tents, crushing anything that can be broken with their boots. A rumor circulates that LAPD and CHP have to leave campus at 6am -- wishful thinking -- and some people wait to retrieve what they left in the field, but 12 hours after 6pm passed without incident, so too does 6am. The last remaining people stage a final show of resilience at the top of the steps and leave as a group. To the east, several dozen try to <a href="https://x.com/HuntedHorse/status/1786020031014604911">block the bus full of arrested students, faculty, and staff,</a> but are again beaten, flash banged, and arrested.</p>
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<p>The night after a mob of vigilantes attacked our students and colleagues to provoke a police sweep of the encampment, the mob got what they wanted. Hundreds of our comrades were brutalized and traumatized for peacefully occupying public spaces to advocate against an ongoing genocide. The police let the attackers walk free, but arrested, shot, and pepper sprayed anyone in sight in the encampment. </p>
<p>(Need final counts of number injured and arrested)</p>
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