UCLA sued over attack on pro-Palestinian protesters
- UCLA activists, including students and faculty, are suing the university for allegedly failing to protect them during violent counterprotests at a pro-Palestinian encampment in April 2024.
- The lawsuit claims serious physical and verbal attacks occurred, including sexual assault and beatings by police and counterprotesters.
- The plaintiffs seek monetary damages for emotional distress, physical injury, and loss of income related to the violence they suffered at UCLA.
- A UCLA task force member stated that the university has become an unsafe environment for advocates of Palestinian rights.
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Over 30 UCLA students who were brutalized last spring during Gaza solidarity protests have sued campus officials and law enforcement agencies. Students had set up a peaceful campus encampment demanding an end to UCLA’s financial ties with Israel’s war. But they were repeatedly targeted for abuse, including from outside groups, culminating in what they call a “brutal mob assault” on April 30. The live-streamed attacks on students and faculty were…

Pro-Palestinian group sues UCLA over its handling of demonstrations
A pro-Palestinian group has filed a lawsuit against the University of California, Los Angeles, over its handling of last year’s demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war.
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