Police make arrests at UCLA in tense clashes with Israel-Hamas war protesters [Video]

Police arrested pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses across the country overnight, notably at the University of California, Los Angeles, where chaotic scenes played out early Thursday as officers in riot gear surged against a crowd of demonstrators and made arrests.Police removed barricades and began dismantling demonstrators’ fortified encampment at UCLA after hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave, some of them forming human chains as police fired flash-bangs to break up the crowds.The California Highway Patrol said at least 132 protesters were arrested. Some sat with their hands behind their backs on the sidewalk, their hands bound with zip ties. Others were loaded onto Los Angeles County Sheriff’s buses and taken to a downtown inmate processing center, spokeswoman Julia Tafoya said. The action came after officers spent hours threatening arrests over loudspeakers if people did not disperse. A crowd of more than 1,000 had gathered on campus, both inside a …