93 arrested at USC following pro-Palestinian protest: police
Thursday, April 25, 2024 2:22AM A rally by pro-Palestinian demonstrators turned chaotic Wednesday at USC’s Alumni Park, as campus police and the LAPD confronted protesters. LOS ANGELES — Police arrested 93 people on and around the University of Southern California campus, mostly on misdemeanor trespass Wednesday night. The university declared the campus closed in the afternoon, open only to students with their USC IDs at pedestrian gates, due to what USC said “significant activity at the center of campus.” On Wednesday night, LAPD Captain Kelly Muniz told ABC News that around 35 protesters had been processed for misdemeanor trespass. Several dozen more were waiting to be processed, Muniz said. There was an altercation in one portion of the protest area that resulted in one arrest for assault with a deadly weapon, according to Muniz. There are no known injuries to police or protesters. The arrests at USC come after police at a Texas university aggressively detained dozens in the latest clashes between law enforcement and those protesting the Israel-Hamas war on campuses nationwide. While tensions rose between police and protesters at USC earlier in the