More than three weeks after counterprotesters attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA, the university police made the first arrest related to the attack: an 18-year-old who officers said had beaten pro-Palestinian protesters with a wooden pole.
In videos of the April 30 attack on the encampment, a man in a light-colored hoodie and a white mask is seen swinging a pole at several protesters. His mother told CNN that the man seen in those videos was her son, though she later told the network that he had denied being there.
The UCLA Police Department has been under intense pressure to identify and charge counterprotesters involved in the April 30 attack, which the police allowed to continue for several hours without intervening.
UCLA's chancellor, Gene Block, testified before a congressional committee about how he had handled the student protests on campus. During that hearing, he faced intense questioning from Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, who asked him why none of the counterprotesters involved in the April 30 attack had been arrested. Are any of these people in jail? she asked.
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