LOS ANGELES — UCLA has shifted back to “limited operations” and online classes on Monday, May 6, after protests re-emerged at the campus.
“Operations limited today 5/6. All classes moving remote today due to ongoing disruptions,” an alert said, shortly after 10 a.m.
Police detained multiple people who gathered in a campus parking garage, according to law enforcement. An apparent “sit-in” inside Moore Hall also disrupted classes, officials said.
UCLA officials vowed to resume normal on-campus operations following a week of unrest circling around a now-dismantled pro-Palestine encampment.
But it quickly became apparent early Monday that normalcy was not in the cards.
Several dozen people gathered on an upper level of a campus parking garage early Monday morning. It was unclear what the group was doing or whether they were specifically protesting university ties to Israel.
Reports from the scene indicated that as many as 40 people were detained by police in the garage, allegedly because they refused to give their names or even say if they were students.
Meanwhile, 50 or more people gathered around 7 a.m. inside the campus’ Moore Hall, staging an apparent sit-in protest. The nature of the demonstration was not immediately clear.
KCAL9 reported that the crowd had dispersed from the building by 9 a.m., but reports of other unauthorized gatherings began materializing in other buildings.
The action came one day after Chancellor Gene Block announced the creation of an Office of Campus Safety to administer policing and emergency management in the aftermath of campus unrest over pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
City News Service contributed to this report
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