The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed a motion ensuring the public defender’s office provides legal representation and legal resources to pro-Palestinian activists arrested at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) earlier this month. .
As Breitbart News pointed out, pro-Palestinian “encampments” have occurred in which activists have taken over the center of campus by force, assaulted journalists, used anti-Semitic rhetoric, and attacked Jewish students and It was removed by police on May 2, after a week of denying other people access to public spaces. Area on campus.
Authorities finally intervened after 100 pro-Israel vigilantes attacked the barricades on the night of April 30th to May 1st.
Last week at UCLA daily bruinThe student newspaper reported as follows:
On Tuesday, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors ordered the public defender’s office to devote resources to the defense of UCLA students arrested during police raids on Thursday, and to ensure that those arrested have clear access to legal aid and defense services. A motion was passed requesting that it be made available. During public comment at Tuesday’s meeting, several UCLA students spoke in support of the resolution, including multiple members of the Undergraduate Student Association Council (USAC).
“We were peacefully protesting.” [sic] However, they were harassed by counter-protesters, leading to increased violence, arrests and attacks,” said Eva Jussim, USAC’s non-executive vice president.
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[Republican] District 5 Supervisor Kathryn Berger was the only vote against the resolution at the board meeting.
Contrary to the activists’ claims that they were protesting “peacefully,” they used force to remove people from “encampments” in public areas of the campus. The reporter was physically pushed out of the camp by activists.
A motion supporting the legal defense of pro-Israel vigilantes was not passed, but police have prioritized investigating the participants.
Poor criminal defendants have the right to a public defender regardless.
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