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You're listening to Later with mo Kelly
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It's Later with mo Kelly Live everywhere
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keeping it right here. We're going
to make sure that you're not going to

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miss anything with respect to UCLA USC
or any of the other Southern California campuses.

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As by now, you probably know
that there has been a dispersal order

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which has been given for those who
are in the encampment on UCLA's campus.

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Whereas USC has been relatively quiet and
it's been a much more controlled situation,

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UCLA is far more uncertain. And
because of that, we're going to keep

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it right here on this story and
see what may transpire on that campus.

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LAPD has a huge presence, my
word, on the campus, as well

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as CHP Beverly Hills Police Department,
Santa Monica Police Department, and the La

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County Sheriff's Department. With that order
of dispersal, and from what I've seen

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from television reports, I think it
is fair to assume that that show of

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force is going to be for the
purpose of clearing out that encampment. I

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think they're going to follow through on
that dispersal order. They have not as

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of yet moved forward. But here
are some things that I think we can

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assume and also glean from what may
happen on UCLA's campus tonight. And I'm

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looking at UCLA through the lens of
what has already happened in regard to police

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response on Columbia's campus. In NYPD, there has been a decision made within

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these relative and respective police departments that
these pro tests encampments must come to an

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end. They have progressed to a
point of violence and vandalism which cannot be

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tolerated anymore. It has hit a
point of lawlessness that cannot be allowed to

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continue. So we saw what happened
in Colombia at Columbia, and we're waiting

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to see what will happen at UCLA. And remember, I thought there was

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a trajectory, a path, a
pattern that the schools on the West Coast

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were following relative to the East Coast. I expect LAPD to move in at

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some point tonight, and moving in
and clearing out this encampment at UCLA serves

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two purposes. And I don't have
any inside information. I'm just saying I

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think it's reasonable to assume from what
we know LAPD moving in and when I

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say LAPD, that's inclusive of CHP
and the other law enforcement agencies on side

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of UCLA. But law enforcement moving
in and clearing out the end that encampment

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at UCLA not only sends a message
to the UCLA campus, but it sends

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a message to the other Southern California
campuses which are on a smaller level dealing

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with this as well. And just
in case you didn't know, I know

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it had been mentioned in the CAFI
twenty four newsroom, but I want to

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reiterate that pro Palestinian protesters, who
are also demanding divestment from Israel and an

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end to the country's military actions and
Gaza, that's the common thread, that's

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the common through line. They have
set up several new tent encampments at colleges

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and universities all around southern and northern
California. I'm talking about you see Irvine,

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you see Riverside, Occidental College,
cal Poly, Humboldt, San Francisco

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State, Sacramento State, and you
can best believe that those campuses, the

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campuses in the sense of the officials, the university and college officials are watching

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what is happening at UCLA, and
the students and student protesters are watching what

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happens tonight at UCLA, and that
will be very clear, at least from

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the law enforcement response what it plans
to do moving forward. And also it

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will send a message and signal to
the other campuses as far as if you

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continue with these encampments, what likely
will happen. Because in the way that

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the campuses, the students, the
organized protesters, the outsiders and agitators are

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all communicating, you can best believe
they're all communicating as far as their tactics

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and their plans. Law enforcement is
communicating as well. Don't think that what's

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happening at San Francisco State or Sacramento
State or UC Irvine, UC Riverside is

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happening in a vacuum and they're not
also watching from a law enforcement standpoint,

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what is being employed here in southern
California. We know that at least twenty

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five people were arrested early Tuesday at
cal Poly Humble. We know that the

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protesters that you see Irvine, they've
been saying to fellow students and also other

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protesters outside of UC Irvine to hold
the line. So if the UCLA protesters

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are going to be in transigent and
they're going to remain in place. Then

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law enforcement is going to do exactly
what they did in New York with Columbia,

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and these other universities are going to
take their cues from UCLA and Colombia

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in USC how to best handle this
moment, to bring order to the campus,

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to conduct commencement ceremonies, and also
to ensure the safety of not only

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the students, but professors and any
bystanders who may be in the area,

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because we are if we take USC
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around the university is also being involved
in these protests. We had Tiffany Hobbs

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on earlier she'll be joining us later
on. She was detailing how there was

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an organized protest on some level which
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Because many of these campuses USC included, they've locked down entrance and exit

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to a large degree, They've made
it much more difficult for people who have

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no business being on campus, at
least in the case of USC, from

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getting on campus. That's point number
one. That's the first thing that I

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think these universities are going to have
to do to at least manage the situation.

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You can't have anyone and everyone coming
on the campus with all sorts of

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agendas, with all sorts of possibly
weapons or other type of contraband, which

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could complicate issues we had on UCLA's
campus last night, slash early this morning,

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fireworks and weapons on some level,
those are the things that the various

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campuses can do their part to help
control that situation. But the takeaway is

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what is happening right now at UCLA. All these campuses in southern California and

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northern California are watching, and depending
on how it's handled later on tonight will

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give us a lot of insight as
to what probably will happen on these other

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campuses UC Irvine, UC Riverside,
Occidental, Sacramento, State, San Francisco,

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State, CalPoly, Humboldt. And
that's just right now. I'm quite

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sure there will be other colleges and
universities who will also join in on some

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level. May not be as large
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or UCLA, but the same methods, the same methodology probably will be employed.

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So what happens tonight at UCLA will
have a large effect on what happens

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everywhere in California. It's Later with
mo Kelly. We're continuing to follow what

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is going to happen at UCLA and
USC and other campuses. So keep it

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there's no reason for you to leave
KFI. You're listening to Later with Mo

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Kelly on demand from KFI AM six
forty. Earlier in the program, Mark

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Ronner highlighted some things that from a
news perspective, that we should remember,

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and it kind of encouraged me to
go further down this road talking about knowing

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the history some of the similarities and
differences to nineteen sixty eight as we talk

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about these protests on UCLA's campus,
USC's campuses, and also around southern California

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and the nation more broadly, there
are some similarities and differences to nineteen sixty

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eight. But we should all be
students of our own American history. Since

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there's this great debate about how history
should be taught. That means it requires

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that we have to have a curiosity
about how this country came to be exactly

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where it is right now, and
if you look at the protests today.

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There are a lot of similarities to
nineteen sixty eight. In nineteen sixty eight,

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you did have these widespread college protests
around the nation. They were with

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respect to the Vietnam War. Obviously, there's not a war in a sense

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of US boots on the ground in
this case, but it had to do

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with an international issue. That's one
similarity. Another similarity it had to do

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with This was a ground up protests. In other words, it grew out

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of the college movement. It wasn't
necessarily from the political class. It was

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most definitely the collegiate environments on campuses
all around the country. There are other

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similarities in the respect that the students
of nineteen sixty eight were asking for the

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federal government to divest, specifically divest
from the war in Vietnam, divest as

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far as our Department of Defense financial
support of the war, and bring obviously

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the soldiers home. That's similar to
today in the sense that students today are

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asking for well, let me just
say, some of the students and some

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of the outside agitators are asking for
divestment with respect to Israel and the war

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in Gaza, something which is not
similar but is worthy of noting is the

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media coverage. If you're not old
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old enough to remember anything about Vietnam, but as a student of history,

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it's worth noting back in nineteen sixty
eight there were only three networks. There

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was ABC, NBC, and CBS, and network coverage or programming only went

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until ten thirty at night. There
was not eleven o'clock news. If you

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happen to be a gen xer,
we know about the eleven o'clock news.

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There was just the evening news,
which is maybe five o'clock, six o'clock,

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depending on the network, seven o'clock. That was it, and was

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only during the week, so America's
exposure to the protest was very, very

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limited, but also very concentrated.
That's how people got their news, and

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obviously printed news the newspaper. There
was not a twenty four hour news cycle.

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Obviously there was no cable news.
There weren't any people reporting on the

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ground who could use their own technology
to get their via their audio their message

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out to the masters, excuse me, to the mass is. There was

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only the three major networks and very
tiny bits of coverage. And here's another

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major distinction. Why nineteen sixty eight
is not like twenty twenty four. In

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nineteen sixty eight, these college students
were also dealing with, i would say,

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the specter the shadow of the draft. And the draft ended in nineteen

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seventy five, but before that,
college students, by and large, unless

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they had some sort of exemption,
were drafted to fight for America in Vietnam.

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The college students of nineteen sixty eight
had a far more personal, invested

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interest in what happened with Vietnam and
trying to bring about the end of the

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war in Vietnam. These college students
today are not directly connected unless they should

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have family members in Gaza or in
Israel or somehow connected directly to the Israel

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and Hamas war. But outside of
that, it's not the same in that

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regard. But there are a lot
of similarities. And if you and again

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a credit toe Mark Rounner for highlighting
this fact, if you look at the

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history of protests from the civil rights
movement, obviously there's overlap with the anti

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Vietnam War movement. Those movements were
led by and large by people in their

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late teens and early twenties. That
has always been the case going back to

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even the suffrage movement, the abolitionist
movement always young people, idealistic, sometimes

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many times misguided in their methods,
even throughout history. But they were at

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the forefront of the movement. But
if you want to make those comparisons,

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and I am leaning into those comparisons
right now, what is happening on college

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campuses is not like previous movements,
if only because there is really no cohesiveness

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or central coordination or methodology which is
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result. Part of the reason why
the civil rights movement of the late nineteen

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fifties and early nineteen sixties was successful
was that there was a coordinated message and

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also strategy, not that everyone agreed
with it. There were many black people

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African Americans who did not agree with
doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. And

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did not agree with the whole strategy
of nonviolence, And people forget that when

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he was assassinated, he was probably
at the lowest point of his popularity.

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He was highly unpopular because he had
started to speak out against the Vietnam War.

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But what made the civil rights movement
successful was that doctor King and others

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in his inner circle, they understood
the moral authority and the visuals of violence

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being perpetrated on black people, how
that would change hearts and minds with respect

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to the Voting Rights Act and the
Civil Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act

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of nineteen sixty four, and the
Voting Rights Tact of nineteen sixty five.

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And that's why nonviolence was so instrumental
in changing the overall perception of why civil

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rights legislation had to be passed.
Talk about the moral imperative. That's why

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I am so critical and dismissive at
times of what later movements have tried to

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employ because they did not take from
the Civil rights movement. They didn't take

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any of the lessons learned from the
success of the Civil rights movement. They

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just took the idea of protests,
and I include Black lives matter in this.

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They just have these willy nilly protests
with no real strategy, no real

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direction, and no surprise, no
real success. There are parallels to nineteen

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sixty eight, but unfortunately the protesters
of today haven't learned the valuable lessons of

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nineteen sixty eight. It's later with
mo Kelly Cafi AM six forty We're live

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everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and we're
continuing to monitor UCLA as LAPD and other

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law enforcement agencies have a very pronounced
presence. LAPD, as you've heard,

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is already on a tactical alert.
They've given an order to disperse for those

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in the encampment on UCLA's campus.
From what we know when we last spoke

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to Chris Adler, we'll speak to
Michael Monks coming up shortly. We have

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not heard any movement from the protesters
in the sense of leaving the encampments,

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trying to disperse from that encampment,
So it looks like at some point LAPD

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will be left with no choice but
to move in, and we will monitor

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that and bring it to you as
it happens. You're listening to Later with

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Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM
six forty, and we continue to follow

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what is happening at UCLA right now, as LAPD is on a tactical alert.

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We know that LAPD has been joined
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Hills Police Department, Santa Monica PD, and the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.

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To my knowledge, and right now
Aaron Benmosch from the newsroom has an update

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on UCLA. Hi, can you
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amazing Well, I just heard from
Chris Adler. She says the school is

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on lockdown so nobody can get in
and out, which means Michael Monks and

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Chris Aler are going to be giving
us updates for a while. More police,

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She's saying hundreds of police officers from
various law enforge enforcement agencies are around

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campus. The Daily Bruin is saying
counter protesters are kind of meeting the police

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wherever they seem to be. They
said that one anonymous source. They also

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posted a picture you can see it
on their Twitter that a student inside the

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camp says in an interview that a
police officer in tactical tactical gear is on

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the roof of Rice Hall. So
it doesn't seem like the protesters are going

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anywhere, and it certainly doesn't seem
like police are going anywhere. Okay,

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from what you can tell in the
social media, have they any idea how

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police they are presenting themselves? Is
it aggressive, more passive? Are they

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moving forward to the encampment or they
just staying in place? To the best

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of your knowledge, they seem to
just be standing there I think now staffers

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as well as other students, and
now more masked and unidentifiable individuals are pouring

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through as well. So now it
just seems like there's a big mix of

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a lot of people in a lot
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But so far, nobody is doing
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cheering and staying within their space,
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surrounding the area. That's great too. I don't want to read too much

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into what you're telling me, but
from what I understand, you are telling

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me that UCLA's campus was not locked
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Yes, from what I understand and
what Chris Adler told me, she was

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on her way out to switch with
Michael Monks or other reporter and she was

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told that she cannot leave, that
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think just to contain the area and
nobody out. See that's strange because we

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know that law enforcement has had a
pronounced presence for the past four hours or

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so and gave the dispersal order around
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sure, but in and around that
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would not cut off entrance into the
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just seems like you're inviting more of
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the dispersal order, people are defining
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that people were still coming to the
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student, protester, be it outside
agitate, agitator, chaos agent's I know

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this is not a question for you
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wondering out loud why that order for
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the impact of people arriving on campus. For whatever reasons. Well, the

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university was also, whether officially or
different professors, they were being encouraged to

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move remote. So tomorrow and Friday
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to de escalate the situation, and
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don't be on campus if you don't
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and their safety update, they even
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So I'm not sure if they haven't
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Chris Hadler cannot leave, so there's
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again, if they haven't disseminated that
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is actually happening. Tifferty Hobbs,
I know you have some updates at UCLA

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as well. I do. And
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specifically slash x, is that multiple
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called the People's City Council, as
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last week, which is a very
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of these groups and others have made
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the community at large, saying things
like quote la get out here and defend.

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RevCom specifically asked for Los Angeles to
get to UCLA, and they're hashtagging

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lots of different things, many of
which have nothing to do with Gaza or

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Palestine or UCLA, but with their
group, with May Day, with Labor

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Day, with free speech, and
they're saying, come now to defend the

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brave students. That was a tweet
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their legions of followers to get to
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I'm sorry, what type of following
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but if you can just estimate how
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reaching A in an all call something
like this, Oh, oh, hundreds

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of thousands. They're a very well
known global group, quite honestly, and

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their chapter here in Los Angeles is
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whom appear at protests as a career. Quite honestly, this is what they

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do. And I've had direct experience
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that has disrupted peaceful protests. So
they're asking their followers to get out to

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protect the students at UCLA, and
I imagine that they are there. They

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are there. They are quite quiet
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made that all call five hours ago
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group which asked for a call to
action saying all out to UCLA, saying

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fulfill the demands of the encampment and
defend against UCLA complicity. So see,

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issues are being conflated. There are
lots of things that play ultimately resulting in

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people outside of the university coming.
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call, you don't know who will
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are and how far they're willing to
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we do know somewhat. It does
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You're not coming You're not asking people
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silently engage with law enforcement. You're
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be a present presence, to be
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something that we don't want to happen. But if you're just tuning in,

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we are giving you the latest as
it relates to UCLA. There has been

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an order to disperse which has been
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so, maybe more than that,
and LAPD has increased its presence since we've

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been on the air at seven o'clock, and other law enforcement agencies have increased

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their presence, according to back channel
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on campus. From what I understand, also, CAFI reporter Michael Monks is

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now in place on the campus at
UCLA. Hey, mom, and when

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we come back, Yes, go
ahead, Eric. I just got word

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from Chris that it isn't informal lockdown
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not an official lockdown. Well,
I don't know if that's going to work,

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if it's only campus security wondering out
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but thank you for that. It's
an informal lockdown. I don't know what

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to make of that, Aaron of
being serious. It's like, you know,

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I just once I got the confirmation
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to provide that. But no,
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information, because of anything, it
makes it explicit that it's not a formal

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lockdown. People have been making their
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and if it's only being enforced informally
by campus security. I've been to

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UCLA's campus. It is massive.
I don't know if you could actually plug

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all the holes as far as how
people could get onto campus and if as

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many people could be coming. And
it's not just pro Palestinian protesters anymore.

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Now there's counterpro testers. Daily Bruin
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Now, I'm not sure what affiliation
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whether they're pro Israel, I'm not
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oh Kkel showing Israeli flags being waved
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of people out there now. Well, we're going to check in with kfi's

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owned Michael Monks when we come back
and get more of what's happening on the

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ground on UCLA's campus when we come
back next you're listening to Later with Moe

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Kelly on demand from KFI AM six
forty. It's Later with Mo Kelly.

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We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
as we continue our coverage of the events

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unfolding at UCLA's campus. Stephen,
do we have Michael Monks yet on the

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line? Not yet? Okay,
okay, we're gonna get him in place,

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but we want to follow what is
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you know at eleven o'clock, I'm going

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to be with you until eleven o'clock. But at eleven o'clock we're going to

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have Tim Conway Junior. I guess
he's a mad man. He's going to

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be coming back into the studio to
do another shift. I think he's going

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for a world record for the most
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So Tim Conway Junior will join me
at eleven o'clock and we will chop it

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up for a little bit. Then
I will pass the mic and the baton

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to him at eleven PM. As
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follow this story for the rest of
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seem to be trending towards escalation.
I say that very cautiously, but from

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the information which is available, we
do know that protesters are amassing and they

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seemingly are gearing up for a response
from LAPD and other law enforcement. More

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law enforcement from our report from Chris
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campus, more law enforcement has arrived
and is in place in front of Royce

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Hall, and given the order of
dispersal, it doesn't seem like they have

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any intentions of not enforcing it.
So I suspect that there may be some

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movement before the night is over.
And Tiffany Hobbs, if you're there,

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I know you had a very important
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Yeah. So again, I've been
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of this information is coming from.
But what I found is again a specific

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organization that is associated with the new
what they consider it to be the New

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Revolutionary Communist Party, has been all
around the country at these different protests over

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the last week with their specific agenda, and what they are doing is they

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are going to the protests. They
are setting up their own their own again

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insignia, their own paraphernalia. They
are protesting, leading students and others in

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chants. This is all according to
their own social media website things that they

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say that they have been doing.
This is not just me speculating. They've

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been leading people in chants, They've
been getting into the faces of law enforcement

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or campus police, and they have
been causing a lot of turmoil during times

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when campus protests are largely peaceful.
So what may start as something that is

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uneventful calm quickly escalates, and their
motive is to escalate. They are using

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today May first, May Day as
a galvanizing date across the country, if

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not globally. I saw them I
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the country and saying that May First, everyone should come together and essentially

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start to escalate these situations because they're
in need of this extra energy. So

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it is a dangerous situation when these
groups get involved, and again they are

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agitators on both sides. And I
know saying outside agitators can make people bristle

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because of the connotation and because of
how misused that phrasing can be. But

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there are agitators on both sides of
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sort of disruption, in escalation,
and then in the dark of night they

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disappear, and that is a huge
and dangerous problem. Tawala. We have

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talked about this time and time again, and I said, when all of

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this start, I said, be
very careful about who you allow to speak

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on your behalf, who are the
loudest voices, and who is part of

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your protests? And from what everything
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these protests have largely been hijacked and
I would say almost given permission to hijack

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them. Every single time there seems
to be one of these modern protests.

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I call them modern because these protests
that are hashtag moments in this history that

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we're living through right now, they
are always hijacked. We literally saw how

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Black Lives Matter protests were hijacked by
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revealed even undercover police officers to start
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We've said time and time again,
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even with social media protests, and
you've had different individuals who have agendas different

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from those who are the original spokesperson
of said cause. Be careful who you

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allow to hijack your message, because
then it's not yours, but everyone will

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remember you first. That's right.
And we have kfi's own Michael Monks,

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who's on the line right now.
Michael, let me get out of the

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way. What do you see?
What are you hearing? Well? Our

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colleague Chriszandler has been reporting brilliantly from
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I've taken advantage of that opportunity to
walk the entirety of the perimeter of the

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protest that's going on here to get
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And it's certainly the most intense that
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in LA around these campuses over the
past couple of weeks. I don't know

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if you can hear the helicopters,
but there are multiple health careacters hovering,

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and it's not just police that are
here. There are a lot of private

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security officers here as well. You
get the sense that people expect something to

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take place on this campus today.
So in addition to this centralized encampment as

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it's been referred to, there are
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some chanting and doing some of the
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But then there are others. I
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history class, when you learn about
people who would picnic civil war battles,

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there are folks who I think are
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they're sharing food, They're sitting on
the hills and waiting for whatever it

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is they expect to happen on this
campus tonight. It's tense. It's not

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as loud, you know, from
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my goodness. But people are talking
quietly, I think, paying a

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lot of attention to chatter on social
media, seeing what the police might be

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saying, and just trying to wait
out whatever awaits us this evening here in

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Westwood. If I gather what you're
saying, there's not an escalation as far

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as the protests are concerned. As
of this moment, but it is an

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overall tense moment. Is that correct? I think there's just a lot of

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anticipation. Yeah, yes, absolutely. You know, there's been word that

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this encampment is to be broken up. Possibly, that's what's been spreading around

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here. And what that looks like
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What does that mean? How will
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what happened on this campus last night? Is there any ongoing discussion? I

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asked Chris Adler about an hour and
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ago, so I want to ask
you the same. Is there any communication

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between the encampment and law enforcement?
I think law enforcement has made it clear

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that it's time to go, but
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type of voluntary exit. And again, I think what folks are waiting for

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here is what does another type of
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what happens? Does that group of
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part of this? You know what's
interesting is a lot of people you can't

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really refer to it as armor,
but it's protective gear, low level protective

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gear. I've seen a lot of
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people who anticipate, possibly protests,
caught up in something. I'm talking about

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the folks who are outside of the
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who are and there are a lot, hundreds and hundreds of folks who are

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on the outskirts of this thing with
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and they all seem prepared for something
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Tell me how law enforcement is,
they're at tire, what type of are

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they wearing? Helmets? Are their
riot shields? Tell me what you see

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from a law enforcement standpoint. There's
a variety of different aesthetics on the various

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law enforcement officers and the security personnel
that are here. So on the perimeter

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where I am, you're seeing a
typical security guard people in bright colored vest

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to let you know that they're here
to either keep you out or to direct

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you elsewhere. Streets are blocked off, and then I think being caught up

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in the anticipation of or the preparation
I should say, on the law enforcement

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side, there certainly are officers who
are probably closer to the nucleus of this

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situation who are ready to protect themselves. Should this take a turn, Michael,

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in the thirty seconds I have left
with you, are you enjoying my

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word a freedom of movement? Can
you move about? Can you interview people

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who are protesting? Or are you
cordoned off altogether? I have found a

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little quiet patio here on this campus
with a lot of benches. And you

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have a little bit of concern as
a member of the media with some of

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these things, and I've got the
KFI Mike flag on this thing. I

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didn't want to draw any attention to
myself, so I've stepped away. I'm

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observing the folks who are are walking
past here, but I found a quiet

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little cove here on campus in order
to report to you this evening. Michael,

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monks, stay safe. I know
you're going to be there for a

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while, so we may check in
with you sometime later as the evening progresses.

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I'll be here and ready for you, moum k IF. I am

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