Good evening! I’m on the ground in Westwood, near UCLA covering the area during and after the Bruins facing Gonzaga in the Final Four Men’s Basketball Game.
Streets are very quiet right now.
Some LAPD cruisers circling the area with four to a car.
At least one horse mounted unit staged nearby. I asked a few of the LAPD officers if the response unit today was big, and he replied “we are ready,” while nodding his head.
One of the horse mounted units was talking to two kids and a father
Not long after, a different LAPD unit takes an unmasked break on Westwood Blvd.
UCLA fans are upset at a non-call by the referees while horse mounted police walk by.
Where’s @ChuckModi1 to break this down when you need him.
Walking past some fraternities now. One banner states “Gonzaga Tosses Low” while a viewing party commences
Another states “bulldogs do doggy cuz your girlfriends are ugly”
Checking the Greek areas. One sign says “Gonzaga Tosses Low”
Another Greek sign: “Bulldogs do doggy cuz their girlfriends are ugly”
Another sign: looks like LAPD is staging outside this building. “Zags Pee Sitting Down.”
As the game goes into overtime, several students ran outside to give “juju fingers” to the reporters nearby.
Things super quiet after the overtime loss. LAPD readying less lethal munitions.
Students yelling “f* Gonzaga” while there growing some wooden chairs into a bonfire.
One chair was added to the fire before LAFD showed up a few minutes after the game ended with a Bruins loss.
Two arrested by my count due to the bonfire.
Party goers singing in the streets in the Westwood, singing.
Crowd began marching through the streets Roebling.
Crowd marched around the Roebling area, ran into another police line. The crowd began singing Seven Nation Army and headed back, slowly dispersing.
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Earlier today: a group of about 20 arrived at Diesel bookstore at the Brentwood Country Mart to protest “Understanding Hamas,” a book which details the group. LAPD arrived.
The bookstore has seen a large amount of social media accounts calling for protest and removal of the book, including several explicit calls for arson of the bookstore.
When allowing LAPD officers into the store, some in the group taunted an employee by shouting “they/them,” and referring to queers for Palestine.
Standing behind @MayorOfLA as part of their “united front,” today alongside an associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and an "acknowledged expert on online hatesharing the stage with them, is InfoWars host Adam King, who hosts his podcast show on Alex Jones' InfoWars. 🧵
In January 2024, Adam King appeared as guest on the popular show Slightly Offensive, hosted by neo-nazi Eljah Schaffer, alongside Proud Boys founder Gavin McGinnes, neo-nazi Nick Fuentes, and white supremacist Vincent James Foxx. From Angry White Men: angrywhitemen.org/2024/01/15/on-…
In September 2023, Adam King, the same right-wing conspiracy theorist who hosts his show on Alex Jones's site, demonstrated outside the ADL's New York headquarters in 2023 with a sign that read "The ADL Hates Jews - Change My Mind"
A pro-Palestinian protest outside of Adas Torah is here, blocking entrance. LAPD arriving with less lethal. In Pico-Robertson, Los Angeles, CA.
The area is very tightly packed.
Nominally, the pro-Palestinian faction here to stop a real estate sale in Israel and Gaza. I’ve been unable to independently confirm that the real estate sale is happening.
Greetings! I’m OTG at CSULA’s Salazar Hall after a pro-Palestine actionThe amount of damage is pretty staggering, here’s the view of the inside student services.
Here’s the view inside CSULA’s student services building post Pro-Palestine occupation.
Lots of damage here at CSULA. interestingly enough there is a lot of property damage but from what I can tell everything seems to have remained in the building itself.
Matin Mehdizadeh appears to be the culprit that launched at least several of the fireworks via mortar into the encampment at UCLA. He was also involved in at least one press attack.
He also was involved in the attack on reporter @doloresquintana . From piece for @LCRWnews -
Matin Mehdizadeh appears at multiple points to have control over the loud speaker which played taunting and repetitive music during the attack.
Mehdizadeh can also be seen here harassing Santa Monica Mirror reporter @doloresquintana .
She was later attacked.
Also of note, someone asks Nouri Mehdizadeh to bring his laser pointer. A pointer was shined into people’s eyes repeatedly that night.
I’m OTG at the UCLA Gaza Solodarity Encampment. A large group of pro-Israel demonstrators are around. One person from the encampment looks very hurt. Hundreds throughout the area.
Reports of fireworks being thrown towards the encampment. Seeing a plume of smoke (looks like just firework smoke for now) coming from near the encampment.
One person (I can’t say for sure which side he’s on) treating what appears to be a pepper spray injury.