Police arrived at Cal State LA Monday afternoon to begin the process of dismantling the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. This comes after protesters staged a sit-in at the Student Services Building last Wednesday that Cal State LA President Berenecea Johnson Eanes said “had crossed a line.”

According to Director of Strategic Communications Erik Frost Hollins, a dispersal order was made by the California Highway Patrol around 1:20 p.m. Seven protestors were reportedly inside and voluntarily left, and no arrests have been reported. Dozens of police in riot gear stood by while crews with dumpster trucks began the clean-up process.

In an email sent out to staff and students at around 3:30 p.m., Eanes said that the only acceptable option after the “unlawful acts that put staff and students in the SSB at risk” was to order the dispersal of the encampment.

“We will not negotiate with those who would use destruction and intimidation to meet their goals,” she said. “It does not escape me that public employees serving a public mission at a public university in one of the region’s most under-resourced communities have been victimized by those claiming to protest injustice.”

Classes will remain online Tuesday, June 18 and for the foreseeable future.

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