At USC, arrests. At UCLA, hands off. Why pro-Palestinian protests have not blown up on UC campuses

At USC, Los Angeles police officers in riot gear swarmed the campus, arresting 93 pro-Palestinian protesters...At UCLA, scores of Palestinian supporters peacefully protested without arrests, suspensions, or intervention by campus staff.

The scenes this week illustrate starkly different responses to campus protests worldwide, with private institutions like USC cracking down on violations while public ones like UCLA took a lighter approach, rooted in the 1st Amendment requirement.

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