The trial claims civil rights violations during the UCLA protest

Nearly a year after a Mafia attacked UCLA students and teachers who formed a camp protesting against the Israeli war in Gaza, the participants in this camp are Jurisdiction From the University of California and UCLA, claiming that the system has violated their civil rights and free expression rights by calling for law enforcement to clear their protest.

The lawsuit also claims that UC employees are discriminating against propalist supporters and failed to protect the members of the strikers. Students and teachers, plus the members of the public, are also suing persons whom the legal team claims to have attacked the propalist camp last 30 April.

A total of 35 persons filed a lawsuit for three events: the attack on UCLA camp, the clearing of the law enforcement agencies the next day when more than 200 people were arrested, and a separate protest on June 10, which arrested additional students and teachers. The group’s attorneys are asking for a court process of jurors. The legal process can be escaped for months, if not longer.

“I do not believe that many people fully understand the degree of violence that has been inflicted (the plaintiffs), both by the counter -protesters and by the police,” said Thomas Harvey, one of the lawyers representing students and teachers who are filing a claim today. “People were beaten with 2 to 4. People were shot in the chest. People were blown fingers. They sought serious medical treatment they were still looking for today.”

Steet Holbrook, a spokesman for the President’s UC service, said the system knew about the case and “is currently collecting additional information.” He added that “California University unequivocally rejects all forms of hatred, harassment and discrimination. Violence of all kinds has no place in UC.”

“We have created reforms throughout the system for promoting safety and the fight against bullying and discrimination in our campuses,” he said. “Our focus remains to support UC, which is safe and welcoming to all.”

Several students and teachers who are the claimants of the case, including those who are Jews, spoke at the press conference on the beatings they made during the melee on April 30.

“I was hit, kicked in my face, causing my lips to open and bleed,” said Afnan Hawaja, a recent graduate of computer science from UCLA. “Later, as I tried to strengthen our barricade, I was hit hard on my head with a wooden stick, letting me fell and dizzy and leave a scar on the back of my ear.”

The plaintiffs are collectively looking for millions of dollars benefits from UC and other defendants to withstand physical and emotional harm, Harvey said, although precise numbers will occur if a process occurs. The claim also wants UC to change its policies when they call on the police to break the protests.

The claim comes at a difficult time for the United Kingdom as President Donald Trump’s administration has filed investigations Supposed anti -Semitism in the campuses of the system and activities that the administration says violate the civil rights of studentsS UC is also placed a legal protection to fight the effort of administration to Cut key funding for research to the system and other higher education institutions across the country. Meanwhile UC expects 8% reduction in state fundingS The threat of financial turmoil prompted UC President Michael Drake Make a freezing of hiring this weekS

The 86 -page claim also claims that police have been wrong to arrest protesters, It is argued that the police He had no right to issue an order to disperse the protesters, as the order was based on campus violations rather than criminal acts. Any arrests that followed were illegal, the case claims. Next, she is wrong unnamed employees of the dismissal of non-dead projectiles in the protesters. The legal team has created a website that makes up some of the evidence of the trial. It is associated with an article on CalMatters stating law enforcement Seemed to have not followed his own procedures by shooting on the protesters’ headsS

The claim was brought on Wednesday afternoon to the Los Angeles District Court, but so far there is no specified number or judge. Costume claims are Like the accusations The postgraduate employees did last year, justifying their strike in multiple UC campuses.

Members of the legal team say they have exceeded over hundreds of hours of video to identify some of the persons the case claims to have attacked the camp last year. Other persons have been identified by Media messages of CNN And elsewhere. The attack was filmed by numerous viewers, as well as by local and national news media.

Some of the suit’s claims seem to be contrary to Calmatters reporting, which shows that the camp has violated UCLA rules. The case states that the exclusion of the camp is “without legal justification, especially because the claimants themselves do not violate any criminal law or university policy during their participation and their relationship with the camp.”

However, ucla at this time There were rules This generally banned camping and campus accommodation. The rules also prohibit blocking entrances and free flow of traffic to buildings. The participants in the camp slept in tents and placed barricades to limit society access to the doors and the four where the camp was erected. The construction facades were also marked with graffiti at the time of the camp, another violation of UCLA.

Campus activism continues

The Propalist activism in UCLA continues as students protest against Israel’s military campaigns in Gaza and the West Coast. On Wednesday, about 50 to 100 students deployed large banners from the yard on the second floor and blocked access to a staircase in an engineering building. They denied the Gaza war and again called on UC leaders to release the $ 180 billion investment from weapons and companies and assets tied to Israel.

The UC police briefly swept the building, but until then no protesters were at the top of the yard or near the staircase. No arrests were made.

The protest came when the UC governing body, the UC Regents Council, occurs in an adjacent building. On Tuesday were good investments For the portfolio of the system, which largely exists to pay for the pensions of its pensioners, to support the donation and to manage short -term money for campuses.

“We are looking for opportunities … I think they will come from AI, life sciences, technology markets, growth industries, they will come from defense, come from drones,” Bacher said. Last year, he said UC invests about $ 3.3 billion in defense companies. A total of $ 32 billion has been invested in companies and assets with Israeli or weapons manufacturers. Without money to study UC Investments.

The lawsuit states that until the protesters’ requests are fulfilled, “UCLA will continue to be a place of rallies and protests, and the plaintiffs will probably meet the same repression,” unless the UC changes its practices.

Some student protesters He briefly stopped the regents meeting today with chants. A line was collected from the police, but the students cleared the meeting space themselves. No arrests were made.