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a wake up it is. Things are going down on the campus of UCLA.
The protesters have had their encampment there for a week now and it's apparently
time for them to move out. We have Blake trolley there. We're gonna
be talking with him in just moments. Let's get to it because there's a
lot going down this morning. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. Police
have been removing barricades and dismantling a pro Palestinian demonstrators fortified encampment on the campus
of UCLA. Hundreds of protesters have defied orders to disperse and are into standoff
with hundreds of officers. Dozens have been taken into custody, both students,
supporters and faculty members. Buses are standing by to take them away. Demonstrators
held umbrellas like shields as they faced off with officers. Some of the protesters
warned their fellow demonstrators to be ready with water in case police fired tear gas
or other irritants. We're going to be talking with ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem
about pressure being put on Hamas to take the deal for a cease fire.
Of course, the war between Israel and Hamas is what sparked the protests.
That's coming up at the bottom of the hour. ABC's crime and terror expert
Brad Garrett's going to be on with us in about fifteen minutes. He's going
to help us get into the minds of the protesters. At six oh five,
it's Handle on the News. Of course, he's going to be all
over the protest and the investigation into how UCLA handled everything. Let's get started
and head to the campus of UCLA with kfi's Blake Trolley. Good morning,
Blake, Hey, Good morning Amy. I don't know if you can hear
in the background right now, but the protesters have, just as you've thrown
it back to me, begun to chant. These protesters. I would say
less than one hundred, but at least close to one hundred. They are
up against police and riot gear and they have been chanting for the last hour
or so. There are two groups of protesters that police right now are swearing
off with, or when I say swearing off, I should say standing up
against one on this side of campus. I am on the I believe,
north side of these protests on the south side. So if you take the
camp and you were just put two borders on it, on the south side
where there's a large staircase, protesters there are also defying orders. It's the
spite. Yeah, this is at Royce Paul and this is despite this is
despite flash bangs going off again, a very heavy police presence here, police
helicopters in the sky, you see search lights coming down. It is just
a very tense moment, and you have to wonder when you're taking a look
at this group right now, when police may move in, when they might
start making those arrests. You know, it's hard to say exactly why there's
a weight on these protesters when some others have already been taken into custody.
But that said, these protesters here in this group, remain defiant. They
are chanting and right now they're chanting peaceful protests. They were chanting moments before
we got on the phone. Hey hey, ho ho, these police have
got to go. Some are standing right up against the line with police.
Others have kind of fallen back. Some are actually just kicking back. And
it's really almost bizarre to see some of these protesters really just hanging out,
given the tensity of the situation. Okay, and when did all of this
start happening. I know that we were on the air until about two o'clock
this morning waiting for something to happen, as the calls to disperse were coming
in and continuing to be put out to the students. But when did they
actually start breaking down the barriers into the encampment. Yeah, so let's put
a timeline on all of this. Yesterday about six pm. That's when those
initial real dispersal orders started going out to these students. They remain defiant.
I'm doing the math here, I'm doing reporter math. But about nine hours
later, so about three o'clock in the morning, this is when we see
police start removing that barricade that was put around the encampment, and that's when
they start making these arrests and keep in mind that barricade. You know,
just two days ago counter protesters had stormed up to this barricade removed pieces of
it. So yesterday this protest group was actually reinforcing that barricade. And what
does the barricade look like exactly, So when you know, when you're going
into a concert, They've got those little metal railing pieces that would be kind
of the base of this. And I believe that was actually set up by
campus, but it was reinforced with pallettes, and then on top of those
palettes were just kind of pieces of junk plywood. Okay, Amy, as
we speak right now, actually a large contingent of officers in riot gear are
now walking and the protesters are moving. I'm going to try to keep you
going. Okay, the protesters are now running, Amy, as we speak,
one of them's flipping off these cops because at this point, if these
cops were to make it, basically we're at a at a corner of two
streets, were at an intersection of two streets. You can hear these protesters.
They are now moving and I'm kind of moving with them, Amy,
Okay, and ahead, this was the wall of protesters. They were just
chanting up against police and riot gear. That said police and riot gear came
and at this point if these these protesters are at the intersection of two streets
at this point in time, street that I was just using to kind of
stay back and do this this live hit with now has police and riot gear,
giving the protesters only really one more way to retreat. And they all
started retreating because if this makes sense, they were being closed in on.
I hope I'm describing this. Yeah, I know, are they surrounded because
you said they're going off and kind of screened, they would be surrounded,
but actually the officers that would have been surrounding them are now going into a
building. And now you can hear the protesters emboldened, chanting, shame on
you. Take a listen. So I don't know if you can hear that.
The same protesters that were retreating a few have stuck around. They realized
that those officers were not actually closing in on them, and now they are
in bolden chanting shame on you. But now the officers that they were standing
up against have kind of moved forward towards them. And as those officers move
forward, Uh, really interesting dynamic to see here, when the officers move
forward, the protesters are retreating. Yeah, it's been interesting to do.
They're not remaining defiant, Yeah, they're they're they're kind of methodically and slowly
moving forward. That that skirmish line or whatever has been pushing back for the
last couple of hours. It seems like, okay, yeah, and and
and right now amy the right now the officers. So I believe because so
many protesters retreated, some are coming back to the line here. But I
believe because those other officers had come around the corner essentially and a lot of
protesters are treated, the police have felt like they can make a little bit
of movement here in clearing them out. That said, a lot of the
protesters who retreated, uh, they are now heading back to the protest line
up against these these officers. It appears that it is a smaller group now.
I think some have maybe retreated for good. But that said, uh,
the there's still is a I would say if there were about one hundred
when we started, there's probably about seventy, so maybe about thirty have completely
just left. So there were just there was only one hundred people in that
encampment. No, in this specific there are two arrests were or the at
least people have already been taken into custody. Then it was it was left
to two groups. There was one on the south and north end of the
encampment where the encampment was set up. I am standing with one of those
two groups, and they are they're in the at the intersection of two streets.
Officers are now running along the side here and give me one second,
Amy, I'm standing back. I need to get my press credential out right
now because this is this could get tense. Give me one second. Okay,
We've got Blake trolley on the campus of UCLA. So the protesters right
now are chanting. Officers have definitely taken a more officers have definitely taken a
more defensive or offensive I should say. Here and now the dynamics have shifted.
Remember more officers were brought into this area. Give me one second,
Amy, I'm gonna move around here. Give a little bit, a little
bit of a healthy distance so I can stay on the phone with you.
I was basically in between officers and protesters. Directly. Let me kind of
get out of the way here. Okay, here we go. Now,
one thing I will note here is Amy. As I stand back, it
looks like the protesters busted open one of the vending machines. Here, one
of the vending machines has been busted open, and it looks like maybe some
materials were taken out of that vending machine. Just a side note. Okay,
So the protesters are chanting peaceful protests. They're locking arms again. At
this point, there are it appears there are more officers than protesters and this
contingent they're chanting peaceful protest and again those officers have taken a very defensive,
a very defensive or sorry I offensive posture at this point. Okay. So
there's a lot of test numbers now down to about fifty okay, and there's
the line of police officers that are they and they're just advancing toward the protesters.
They are advancing towards them. Some have their shields or their face shields
down, some staw their face shields up, which makes me wonder, you
know, how offensive of a posture they're taking. But they have really pushed
these protesters back. These protesters are at the end of what I believe is
a quad out on a street that people would take through campus. They have
since that retreated and they are now back into that quad. And it's been
so interesting to watch this dynamic because you hear the police saying, if you
guys just leave, we're not you know, we're not going to arrest you,
and they're saying, we're not here to hurt you. And then yeah,
and that's it. And just so you know, yesterday Amy, I
had a chance to actually speak to somebody who had been living in this encampment
and they had told me that they had no plans to leave until the university
had met the demands. And keep in mind those demands were divesting from Israeli
companies, so they I believe people who are are more held to their beliefs
here probably will go down with the ship. And we're hearing that dozens of
people have have been arrested. Do you have any sense of that. You
know, we've only seen the footage so far. It'll be interesting to see
what they're charged with. I'm sure there's going to be varying degrees of charges.
And I'm really assuming that comes down to what these protesters did towards police.
You know, did they did they just simply get arrested or you know,
was there more to it, and maybe if police or prosecutors have you
know, any evidence that they engaged in anything more criminal as they were part
of that part of that encampment. We have heard, you know, allegations
of people being blocked from from class and things of that nature. You know,
it is a college campus. One thing I was reminded yesterday is that
people who are not in the encampment still know a lot of people who are
in the encampment. So it'll be really curious to see what kind of comes
in the weeks and the weeks ahead here as these arrests are made. Okay,
and we know that there have been a ton of flash bangs being fired
off that started right at three o'clock and that we're right around three o'clock,
and that caused a lot of people to disperse. But what other things have
law enforcement been using that you can see? Have there been rubber bullets fired?
Flash bangs? Seem to really know so far, flashbanks seem to be
the biggest kind of dispersal tool here used. Another reporter had told me,
actually Michael Monks had told me this and he did a great job. You
know, he was here through the night that trooper. He had told me
that he had seen flash banks being fired just directly at the ground, you
know, really as an intimidation tactic. So I believe a lot of the
flash bangs you're hearing are probably more so you know, fired in that line,
just based on the observation of Michael that said, police here, do
you have zip ties? They do have the toons. I'm still seeing officers
here with those flash bang guns, so we could see more use of that.
I want to just give you the numbers right now amy of protesters that
are in front, because this group has really dwindled down. They're still being
loud. I'm sure you can still hear those chants, but that said,
very few remain I would say fifty or so remain. This group's probably been
cut in half. Okay, and again that's just one flank of the standoff
there. This is one of two main flanks exactly. Okay, all right,
Blake Trolley, We're going to let you go do some more investigation and
check back with us again a little bit later this hour. Thank you so
much for this information. Hopefully this will be peacefully resolved and we will be
here and we will be watching it and we will bring you the latest,
Thanks Blake. Hundreds of California law enforcement officers are facing off with pro Palestinian
protesters outside Royce Hall at UCLA. Arrests are being made as police attempt to
clear out a weekled encampment that has been declared unlawful. There's been pushing and
shoving between officers and protesters. Several things were hurled at officers. Dozens of
USC faculty members then moving over to USC Dozens of faculty members have marched across
the campus in support of pro Palestinian protesters. They called for amnesty for students
who were arrested during a massive demonstration last week. Some students joined in the
procession late yesterday afternoon. Mayor Bass has cut short her trip to Washington to
DC to appeal to lawmakers for more money to handle homelessness, and she's coming
back to LA to deal with the protests at UCLA's campus. The mayor was
leading a delegation of mayors to urge Congress to give cities more flexibility and building
affordable housing, among other issues. At six so five it's handled on the
news. The House is passed and anti Semitism bill with support from both sides
of the ilist protests continue across the country. Now, let's say good morning
to ABC's Crime and Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett. And Brad, with everything unfolding
at UCLA, I'm glad we get the opportunity to talk to you about the
protests at UCLA and maybe the mindset of the students participating in them. You
say that there's a contagion effect on college campuses. What do you mean by
that? So as you look at Columbia University, which seems to be sort
of the start of this for lack of better picks, and it spread so
quickly, I mean between social media and the media because we cover it obviously
to a large extent. It gets a lot of coverage, and between the
two, the belief is that it's contagious that kids at UCLA, kids that
fill the blank university go yeah, we agree with that, and so they
start something. The unknown factor here is how much let's just see use UCLA
since you're there, of those agitators or protesters are outside agitators. I'm going
to be interested to see because I've heard some fairly high numbers in New York
as to who was arrested in Hamilton Hall and who was actually not a student,
and that's going to be a driver to a large extent as to what
you have the composition of. Are the agitators basically driving the train here and
the kids are going along with it. So we'll see. I saw I
was watching one of the networks and I saw some coverage where they had the
students trying to barricade Hamilton Hall. This is on the Columbia University campus,
and somebody who was obviously not a student, a much older woman, was
basically coaching them this is how you do this, this is the way to
do it. Do this, don't do that. Obviously an outside person coming
to lend a helping hand, so no doubt. NYPD is even stated that
they ide'd some people in the crowd that they knew were outside agitators because they
have a history. I mean there's people, this is what they do.
So yes, the configuration of how the doors are barricaded. One of the
NYPD commissioners commented about how so many of the tents were similar, suggesting that
someone bought all those tents or a chunk of those tents outside agitation, you
know, possibly because their goal. They probably have many, but one is
they actually want to have physical confrontation with the police because it pushes whatever cause
they're involved in. But does it advance the cause? Does it advance the
cause though? Does it create sympathy or does it create animosity? Well,
if you look at the in the short term, maybe if you look at
the studies, they would suggest that when you have law enforcement intervention, it
does embolden the cause, so to speak, in some people's minds or eyes,
and so it can have an effect of increasing perhaps protests or demonstrations.
That doesn't mean law enforcement shouldn't be doing what they're doing, because they should.
I'm just suggesting it's a bit of a no win situation for law enforcement.
And police are now going in and working to clear the encampment at UCLA
similar to what they did on the campus of Columbia University earlier this week.
You think the police are doing the right thing, absolutely, In fact,
if I were the president of Columbia, I would have done it long before
she did. That was going to be my next question because because absolutely you
cannot allow people to break the law, to take over buildings, to damage
buildings. Apparently there's extensive damage inside Hamilton Hall. That's just not right.
You have to deal with that and people have to be appropriately charged. And
so it's fine to demonstrate you have First Amendment rights. You want to stand
and peacefully yell whatever you want to yell, go at it. But when
you step over the boundary into safety issues, into taking over buildings, to
damaging buildings, need to be held accountable. Okay, Brad Garrett, thank
you so much for the insight. We appreciate it and look forward to talking
to you again soon. Sounds great, Take care see Amy. All right,
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four hour newsroom. Of course, the protests at UCLA pro Palestinian protesters are
being arrested and zip tied as police work to disperse the group on campus.
This protester outside Perlof Hall tells KTLA faculty members are being arrested as well.
Even though not all the students were UCLA students, The crowd what was comprised
mostly of thirty and under a lot of eighteen nineteen twenty year olds, and
the police officers were definitely overusing the forest cent regards to that that protester is
not a student at UCLA. He says he's a student at cal State Dominga's
Hills and just took his LSATs. He left the camp before he was arrested.
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and Hamas a lot of students have set up camps calling for total divestment from
anyone who funds Israel. About three hundred protesters we're arrested Tuesday night at Columbia
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ripped apart the pro Palestinian protesters barricade that's made up of plywood palettes, metal
fences, and trash dumpsters surrounding the encampment on the UCLA campus. We're going
to go back now live to Blake Trolley, who's on the campus at UCLA.
Blake, what are you seeing? Yeah? So, you know,
Amy, the last time we caught up, what we had seen was police
really pushing these protesters through a quad and they have effectively from the time that
you and I had started speaking earlier this hour to now push these protesters out
towards the street. And when I say street, I'm mean not a street
within the campus, a street outside of campus. That protester group that we
saw earlier today, just a backtrack, there are about one hundred protesters chanting
against police and riot gear in this wing of campus. These officers have since
pushed them out of a street that cuts through the university if you will,
through a quad out to now the other side where there's another street, but
that street would just be to you know, the city, that would get
you out of the university. The protest group has significantly shrinks since we first
started covering this specific little wing. They're about one hundred I would say they're
down to about fifty right now, and officers are slowly pushing them, slowly
pushing them through the quad in off the campus. Right now, campus is
essentially locked down. I mean, even for press to get on, it
was really hard to move about. I just saw a student and I'm guessing
he's just unfortunately ended up on campus try to cut through here. He's in
a UCLA shirt. He does not look like he's affiliated with the protests,
and officers put lights on him and told him to turn around. So officers
right now closing in on the final few protesters of this wing. And what
we're seeing these officers do is they stand, they give dispersal orders. Maybe
in the beginning of every push they tell them to leave. The protesters seem
to essentially stand defiant, and then the police little by little start advancing towards
these protesters. And these protesters moved back. Now, I want to talk
about a conversation I had amy with a couple of protesters. A couple pushes
ago, if you will, So every time one of these comes to a
stop, the protesters start chanting. You may hear that in the background right
now. I spoke to a couple of protesters and a couple, you know.
One of the things that they told me was, well, we're upset
that this is being dismantled. Class was supposed to be over in two weeks,
so this wouldn't affect campus. I had asked them, was your plan
to leave when school got out? Then? What was this camp really just
set up until summer? Was that what you were hoping for? And they
had said no, that they would have remained on campus through the summer had
it not been dispersed, and they would have continued to push for the school
to divest in Israeli companies. Okay, So, Blake, are you seeing
any of the students being arrested? I have not seen any arrest. This
group specifically keeps retreating, and I believe officers right now are mainly focused on
getting them pushed off of campus. Morning is something that I am really curious
to see. I am very curious to see if this baseball is being hit
into a glove essentially, because officers are surrounding the campus. So when they
pushed them to the street, is that where they're timately going to arrest them.
That's going to be to be determined with this specific group. What I
have seen a couple of times is officers kind of noticing that protesters as they
get pushed. Keep in mind, these pushes are not the most organized,
if you will. Once they start pushing, these students run everywhere. They
run in every direction, and the officers do the best job that they can.
You can really see that they're they're trying to get a containment line around
them, but there is still some seepage and you'll see those students start kind
of running out into the campus, if you will, away from the officer
line. And I don't see too many breakaways to make arrests on those cases.
Okay, And when you when you talk about the push, paint us
a picture of it. It's so it's a line of officers in the pass
in riot gear. You have police, yeah, you have police and riot
gear, and they are forming a line. But sometimes that line actually becomes
more of whatever the shape of the quad is, because they're really just forming
a barrier, if you will, uh, so that the students can only
move in one direction, that a line of officers will remain will remain standing
firm, and then at it seems like every few minutes or so, it
starts pushing forward towards these students to get them to retreat, if you will,
you were taught. I have not seen any munitions youth. In fact,
during these pushes, I haven't even seen flash bangs us. But that's
just for this specific you know, contingent of protesters. What really I see
is just police in riot here, maybe one hundred or so officers, and
every five six minutes they start running and charging towards these students and then the
or towards these protesters, I should say, and these protesters start retreating.
But these protesters don't have a lot of real estate left. They are being
pushed towards the edge of campus here, as you said, possibly hitting a
ball into a glove. And it'll be so fascinating to watch. Tell me
about the protest. Just what do the protesters look like? A lot of
these are very young people, you know, the best I could describe is
a lot of young people. Many of them are wearing masks, some are
even in heavier gear than that. There are some people in yellow vests,
and I'm kind of curious what their function is with the group. They seem
to be hanging in the back of the group. But really just think about
a mix of very young people. And at least the three that I spoke
with, they all essentially had told me they are very upset that the school
is responding this way. They were very critical of the school's response to pushing
them out. If you listen to some of the chants that are going on
here, the protesters are chanting, no riot here, why are you and
riot gear? The students here feel that they were not and we heard this
yesterday. I spoke to somebody in the encampment. They said, listen,
we are not island. That is at least the position that they're taking.
That said, police here are dispersing them, okay, And do the protesters
that you're seeing are they the ones with helmets on as well? Because we've
seen several when there was that large skirmish line between police and protesters, it
was like a one line or two lines of police and like five or six
deep right at the edge of the encampment, and most of them had white
helmets on. Yeah, so I saw a couple in this group. There
were a couple of them, notably in those white helmets. Actually, i'm
looking right now, there's maybe four or five of them in this specific group
that are in those white helmets. It may seem to be at the front
of the line if you look towards the back. What's really interesting is there's
a lot of, like I said, young people here. Some are in
hoodies, some are in hats, a lot of face masks, and they
are I mean a few of them in the back. They are actually on
their phones right now. So the front of the line that's champing towards police
is there very intense. In the back again, they look pretty relaxed,
like they're just on their phones. And this is all within fifty feet.
So the front of the line is about fifty feet ahead of these students who
seem to just be texting in the in the back here. Okay, And
then as you said that, they're pushing forward or pushing them towards the edge
of campus. How far are they from the edge of campus. I mean
so right now. It's hard to say because there's kind of a windy path
that they're going to have to take, but I would say less definitely less
than a quarter mile. And when I say less than a quarter mile,
I mean far less than a quarter mile, maybe maybe a hundred maybe one
hundred yards if you factor in the fact that they're winding as the crow flives,
less than one hundred yards. Like they're being pushed again. So here
we go. So we're actually watching them get being pushed right now. And
and just like the rest of these pushes we've seen. So we've been on
the phone here ay a few minutes. When we first got on the phone,
they had just come to us to a halt the police. Did we
just hear move? So you hear those officers yell move, they push these
protesters backwards. At this point, we've got a there's a very uh,
there's a very small number of protesters that are left here. There's one person
in the yellow vest handing out water bottles to some of the protesters that are
getting pushed back. I would say there's maybe fifty protesters. It looks like
some of them. Actually we talk about being on the edge of campus.
I'm seeing a group right now, one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, So seven of them it looks like are just
choosing to leave. One of those protesters in the white helmet. Actually we've
got a couple more now in the back, so three more are following that
group. I think they're seeing the edge of campus here. They're seeing that
there are police and right here directly in front of them to get back on
campus if they were to try to take the only other entrants they have that's
blocked off by police. And the energy with some of these protesters really does
appear to be winding, okay, and you said that they're just kind of
walking off, So if they choose to just leave the group and walk away,
they're letting them go. I mean, it's hard to say, right
because I can't see. I mean, this looks this appears to be the
direct edge of campus. That said down the road. Is there a police
barricade set up to make arrest as they try to exit. It's hard to
determine from where I'm standing, but it doesn't appear that they are. Like
these students are walking out of the group and there's officers directly behind making arrest.
Now, I'm not seeing anything like that. What would I guess turn
into arrest would be if there is a you know, some sort of checkpoint
or barricade set up that I'm just not able to see right now as they
go down this road. All right, TROLLI thank you so much. Like
Trully on the campus of UCLA for KFI this morning, as protests continue,
but police are dismantling that in tampment that has been outside Royce Hall for more
than a week now, hundreds of officers have been breaking down barricades surrounding the
pro Palestinian encampment outside Royce Hall on the UCLA campus. The students had been
told for hours to disperse and ignore those orders. Police have moved in.
Flash bangs have been fired, and what appears to be smoke grenades have been
set off. Not clear if it's coming from inside there, came from inside
the camp or from out. They have also had objects thrown at officers.
We're going to go back to the campus of UCLA where Break Blake trolley is
watching the action unfold. Blake, what's the latest. Well, one thing
you'll probably notice right now, Amy, is that now it's quiet in the
background of the final protesters. They were pushed towards that street that we were
just talking about here moments ago. There's a few that have remained, but
this is no longer an active protest. There's a few people here. They're
currently being interviewed by media that said. Everybody else did retreat towards that that
road. As you'll remember, we saw about ten or so initially take the
street and uh, and then the rest did leave. I saw probably ten
or so pack into the same white van. I'll be posting some video of
that to social media. It was really interesting. As this protest got pushed
back to the street, there was a white mini van that showed up.
You started hearing people being offered rides and uh, quite a few got quite
a few sardines into that cad. It was. It was a it looked
like a tight ride. Maybe that's for a few minutes ago. Yeah,
yeah, it was. It was really interesting to see because they, like
I said, they really packed into that van, and then that van drove
off. The campus already has a different film actually looking ahead right now and
I see a guy walking his Golden retrievers through the quad. This same quad
was just the just the scene of a very loud protest with police and riot
gear pushing these protesters back, and now we have it looks like a guy
who probably just lives in the neighborhood walking his dogs through a quad all within
the same hour, which is very bizarre. Okay, And just to be
clear, Blake, you're not in the quad that's outside Royce Hall where the
encampment is. You are in on another flank of where the protest was going
on. Yeah, I was on another flank, and so now I'm walking
towards that encampment and I was hoping to do that while we're on the phone.
So I'm trying to make my way over there, just to give you
an idea of how far they push these protesters. I'm guessing it's gonna take
me a couple of minutes as I kind of hike over there right now to
get a look at what it looks like over that. Why don't we do
this, Blake. We're gonna let you go ahead and hike over there and
get set up in that area, and then we'll we'll have a bill handle
check in with you after the top of the hour and you can get us
the latest on that. Okay, sounds good. Thank you all right,
Thank you Blake TuS really for all your great information this morning. Wow,
it's just amazing how quickly that all unfolded. As you know that they were
told to disperse after it was declared that it was an unlawful protest or an
unlawful gathering. They ignored those orders, and those warnings continued through the night
as police continued to amass around the encampment, and then shortly before three o'clock
this morning, they went in and started taking it apart. And we're going
to get the latest from Blake as a situation continues to unfold with Bill Handle
just after the top of the hour. Let's check in now with some of
the other stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom, because there's
still a whole lot going on on all around the world. Four people are
wanted for organized retail theft at a shopping mall in Orange County. Irvine PDE
says the group targeted a Champs Sports at the Irvine Spectrum. The group is
accused of stealing nikes from the store before leaving the area in two cars.
One was a gray Mitsab She Outland or SUV. The other was a black
Volkswagen Passat Sedan. Police posted pictures of the four people online yesterday, asking
for help in identifying them. Officials have issued ocean water warnings for several beaches
in La County. They said yesterday people should avoid the beaches because of high
levels of bacteria. The warnings will remain in effect until further notice. The
La County Department of Public Health says bacterian debris can seep from city streets and
mountain areas, contaminating the ocean. The warning includes the Santa Monica Peer,
Malibu Lagoon, Inner Cabrio Beach, Los Floris Creek, and several other beaches.
Another hearing in former President Trump's criminal hush money trial will be heard in
New York regarding a gag order to determine if four other statements from Trump violated
the gag order, including one he made in the hallway outside court. ABC's
Brian Clark says the hearing comes before testimony in the case is set to resume.
Trump was fined on Tuesday nine thousand dollars after he was found in contempt
of court for violating the order nine separate times. The judge says if he
doesn't knock it off, he could be facing jail time. People protesting over
how the twenty twenty four Paris Olympics will impact the area have rallied outside the
French Interior Ministry offices. The Way the homeless People I evicted, the Way
squads I evicted, emergency centers Harassment of sex workers group organizer Antoine de Clerc
says everything is in the hands of the Home Ministry. More than seventy non
governmental organizations issued a letter this week warning of the risk of social cleansing on
what they call societies most marginalized. A court in Europe has upheld Italy's right
to seize a Greek statue from the J. Paul Getty Museum. The court
rejected the museum's appeal, ruling that Italy was right to try to reclaim an
important part of its cultural heritage. The Getty had appealed a High Court Italian
ruling in twenty eighteen that claimed the right to confiscate the statue. The life
sized bronze statue, named Victorious Youth, dates back from three one hundred BC
to one hundred BC. Some scholars say it was made by Alexander the Great's
personal sculptor. Hey, Alexander the Great, that's the name of my cat.
The number of arrests made at Stagecoach Country Music Festival last weekend was up
by more than twenty five percent compared to last year. Belice in Indiosay officers
made one hundred twelve arrests between Thursday and Sunday. Sixty three people were picked
up for drug, alcohol or intoxication related offenses. Forty nine were arrested for
having fake IDs. Thanks again for joining us for wake Up Call. It's
been quite a morning, and as we mentioned, Blake Trolley is going to
be live with Bill Handel just after the top of the hour to bring us
the latest on the dismantling of the protests at UCLA. This is KFI and
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