Police order dispersal of gathering at UCLA as protests continue nationwide
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🗓️ 2 May 2024
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Pro-Palestinian protests continue on college campuses nationwide.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Thursday, May 2nd, 2024. This is the |
| 0:18.8 | excerpt. Today, the latest from campus protests, plus we take a closer look at the |
| 0:27.3 | impact of Florida's six-week abortion ban and should you be worried about |
| 0:31.7 | bird flu? Hundreds of police officers, many wearing tactical gear, filed on to UCLA's campus in Los Angeles last night. |
| 0:40.0 | Police ordered a large group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators |
| 0:43.2 | to leave or face arrest, a night after violence erupted |
| 0:46.6 | at their encampment by counter-protesters. |
| 0:49.2 | Video posted on social media |
| 0:50.8 | as showed counter-demonstrators battering a makeshift barricade around pro-Palestinian |
| 0:55.5 | protesters at the campus on Tuesday. |
| 0:58.3 | UCLA cancelled class yesterday after the incident. |
| 1:01.6 | As the police force entered the campus last night |
| 1:03.5 | to clear the encampment, some of the protesters were heard yelling at them, |
| 1:07.0 | quote, where were you yesterday? |
| 1:09.0 | Unquote. |
| 1:10.0 | UCLA officials said the campus will resume operations on a limited basis today and tomorrow. |
| 1:16.0 | Elsewhere, 90 pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire yesterday, |
| 1:22.0 | and several hundred protesters |
| 1:23.9 | gathered for a peaceful demonstration at Ohio State University. School |
| 1:28.2 | officials had locked up some buildings in anticipation of the demonstration, but |
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