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call. Here's Amy Kick. It's

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five o'clock, straight up. This
is your wake up call for Thursday May

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second. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. I'm Amy King and what

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a wake up it is. Things
are going down on the campus of UCLA.

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The protesters have had their encampment there
for a week now and it's apparently

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time for them to move out.
We have Blake trolley there. We're gonna

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be talking with him in just moments. Let's get to it because there's a

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lot going down this morning. Here's
what's ahead on wake Up Call. Police

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have been removing barricades and dismantling a
pro Palestinian demonstrators fortified encampment on the campus

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of UCLA. Hundreds of protesters have
defied orders to disperse and are into standoff

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with hundreds of officers. Dozens have
been taken into custody, both students,

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supporters and faculty members. Buses are
standing by to take them away. Demonstrators

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held umbrellas like shields as they faced
off with officers. Some of the protesters

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warned their fellow demonstrators to be ready
with water in case police fired tear gas

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or other irritants. We're going to
be talking with ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem

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about pressure being put on Hamas to
take the deal for a cease fire.

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Of course, the war between Israel
and Hamas is what sparked the protests.

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That's coming up at the bottom of
the hour. ABC's crime and terror expert

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Brad Garrett's going to be on with
us in about fifteen minutes. He's going

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to help us get into the minds
of the protesters. At six oh five,

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it's Handle on the News. Of
course, he's going to be all

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over the protest and the investigation into
how UCLA handled everything. Let's get started

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and head to the campus of UCLA
with kfi's Blake Trolley. Good morning,

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Blake, Hey, Good morning Amy. I don't know if you can hear

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in the background right now, but
the protesters have, just as you've thrown

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it back to me, begun to
chant. These protesters. I would say

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less than one hundred, but at
least close to one hundred. They are

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up against police and riot gear and
they have been chanting for the last hour

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or so. There are two groups
of protesters that police right now are swearing

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off with, or when I say
swearing off, I should say standing up

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against one on this side of campus. I am on the I believe,

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north side of these protests on the
south side. So if you take the

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camp and you were just put two
borders on it, on the south side

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where there's a large staircase, protesters
there are also defying orders. It's the

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spite. Yeah, this is at
Royce Paul and this is despite this is

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despite flash bangs going off again,
a very heavy police presence here, police

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helicopters in the sky, you see
search lights coming down. It is just

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a very tense moment, and you
have to wonder when you're taking a look

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at this group right now, when
police may move in, when they might

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start making those arrests. You know, it's hard to say exactly why there's

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a weight on these protesters when some
others have already been taken into custody.

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But that said, these protesters here
in this group, remain defiant. They

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are chanting and right now they're chanting
peaceful protests. They were chanting moments before

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we got on the phone. Hey
hey, ho ho, these police have

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got to go. Some are standing
right up against the line with police.

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Others have kind of fallen back.
Some are actually just kicking back. And

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it's really almost bizarre to see some
of these protesters really just hanging out,

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given the tensity of the situation.
Okay, and when did all of this

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start happening. I know that we
were on the air until about two o'clock

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this morning waiting for something to happen, as the calls to disperse were coming

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in and continuing to be put out
to the students. But when did they

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actually start breaking down the barriers into
the encampment. Yeah, so let's put

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a timeline on all of this.
Yesterday about six pm. That's when those

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initial real dispersal orders started going out
to these students. They remain defiant.

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I'm doing the math here, I'm
doing reporter math. But about nine hours

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later, so about three o'clock in
the morning, this is when we see

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police start removing that barricade that was
put around the encampment, and that's when

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they start making these arrests and keep
in mind that barricade. You know,

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just two days ago counter protesters had
stormed up to this barricade removed pieces of

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it. So yesterday this protest group
was actually reinforcing that barricade. And what

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does the barricade look like exactly,
So when you know, when you're going

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into a concert, They've got those
little metal railing pieces that would be kind

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of the base of this. And
I believe that was actually set up by

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campus, but it was reinforced with
pallettes, and then on top of those

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palettes were just kind of pieces of
junk plywood. Okay, Amy, as

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we speak right now, actually a
large contingent of officers in riot gear are

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now walking and the protesters are moving. I'm going to try to keep you

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going. Okay, the protesters are
now running, Amy, as we speak,

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one of them's flipping off these cops
because at this point, if these

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cops were to make it, basically
we're at a at a corner of two

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streets, were at an intersection of
two streets. You can hear these protesters.

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They are now moving and I'm kind
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Okay, and ahead, this was
the wall of protesters. They were just

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chanting up against police and riot gear. That said police and riot gear came

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and at this point if these these
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at this point in time, street
that I was just using to kind of

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stay back and do this this live
hit with now has police and riot gear,

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giving the protesters only really one more
way to retreat. And they all

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started retreating because if this makes sense, they were being closed in on.

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I hope I'm describing this. Yeah, I know, are they surrounded because

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you said they're going off and kind
of screened, they would be surrounded,

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but actually the officers that would have
been surrounding them are now going into a

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building. And now you can hear
the protesters emboldened, chanting, shame on

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you. Take a listen. So
I don't know if you can hear that.

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The same protesters that were retreating a
few have stuck around. They realized

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that those officers were not actually closing
in on them, and now they are

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in bolden chanting shame on you.
But now the officers that they were standing

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up against have kind of moved forward
towards them. And as those officers move

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forward, Uh, really interesting dynamic
to see here, when the officers move

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forward, the protesters are retreating.
Yeah, it's been interesting to do.

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They're not remaining defiant, Yeah,
they're they're they're kind of methodically and slowly

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moving forward. That that skirmish line
or whatever has been pushing back for the

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last couple of hours. It seems
like, okay, yeah, and and

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and right now amy the right now
the officers. So I believe because so

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many protesters retreated, some are coming
back to the line here. But I

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believe because those other officers had come
around the corner essentially and a lot of

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protesters are treated, the police have
felt like they can make a little bit

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of movement here in clearing them out. That said, a lot of the

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protesters who retreated, uh, they
are now heading back to the protest line

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up against these these officers. It
appears that it is a smaller group now.

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I think some have maybe retreated for
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the there's still is a I would
say if there were about one hundred

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when we started, there's probably about
seventy, so maybe about thirty have completely

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just left. So there were just
there was only one hundred people in that

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encampment. No, in this specific
there are two arrests were or the at

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least people have already been taken into
custody. Then it was it was left

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to two groups. There was one
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encampment where the encampment was set up. I am standing with one of those

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two groups, and they are they're
in the at the intersection of two streets.

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Officers are now running along the side
here and give me one second,

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Amy, I'm standing back. I
need to get my press credential out right

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now because this is this could get
tense. Give me one second. Okay,

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We've got Blake trolley on the campus
of UCLA. So the protesters right

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now are chanting. Officers have definitely
taken a more officers have definitely taken a

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more defensive or offensive I should say. Here and now the dynamics have shifted.

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Remember more officers were brought into this
area. Give me one second,

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Amy, I'm gonna move around here. Give a little bit, a little

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bit of a healthy distance so I
can stay on the phone with you.

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I was basically in between officers and
protesters. Directly. Let me kind of

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get out of the way here.
Okay, here we go. Now,

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one thing I will note here is
Amy. As I stand back, it

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looks like the protesters busted open one
of the vending machines. Here, one

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of the vending machines has been busted
open, and it looks like maybe some

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materials were taken out of that vending
machine. Just a side note. Okay,

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So the protesters are chanting peaceful protests. They're locking arms again. At

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this point, there are it appears
there are more officers than protesters and this

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contingent they're chanting peaceful protest and again
those officers have taken a very defensive,

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a very defensive or sorry I offensive
posture at this point. Okay. So

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there's a lot of test numbers now
down to about fifty okay, and there's

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the line of police officers that are
they and they're just advancing toward the protesters.

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They are advancing towards them. Some
have their shields or their face shields

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down, some staw their face shields
up, which makes me wonder, you

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know, how offensive of a posture
they're taking. But they have really pushed

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these protesters back. These protesters are
at the end of what I believe is

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a quad out on a street that
people would take through campus. They have

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since that retreated and they are now
back into that quad. And it's been

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so interesting to watch this dynamic because
you hear the police saying, if you

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guys just leave, we're not you
know, we're not going to arrest you,

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and they're saying, we're not here
to hurt you. And then yeah,

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and that's it. And just so
you know, yesterday Amy, I

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had a chance to actually speak to
somebody who had been living in this encampment

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and they had told me that they
had no plans to leave until the university

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had met the demands. And keep
in mind those demands were divesting from Israeli

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companies, so they I believe people
who are are more held to their beliefs

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here probably will go down with the
ship. And we're hearing that dozens of

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people have have been arrested. Do
you have any sense of that. You

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know, we've only seen the footage
so far. It'll be interesting to see

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what they're charged with. I'm sure
there's going to be varying degrees of charges.

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And I'm really assuming that comes down
to what these protesters did towards police.

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You know, did they did they
just simply get arrested or you know,

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was there more to it, and
maybe if police or prosecutors have you

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know, any evidence that they engaged
in anything more criminal as they were part

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of that part of that encampment.
We have heard, you know, allegations

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of people being blocked from from class
and things of that nature. You know,

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it is a college campus. One
thing I was reminded yesterday is that

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people who are not in the encampment
still know a lot of people who are

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in the encampment. So it'll be
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in the weeks and the weeks ahead
here as these arrests are made. Okay,

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and we know that there have been
a ton of flash bangs being fired

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off that started right at three o'clock
and that we're right around three o'clock,

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and that caused a lot of people
to disperse. But what other things have

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law enforcement been using that you can
see? Have there been rubber bullets fired?

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Flash bangs? Seem to really know
so far, flashbanks seem to be

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the biggest kind of dispersal tool here
used. Another reporter had told me,

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actually Michael Monks had told me this
and he did a great job. You

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know, he was here through the
night that trooper. He had told me

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that he had seen flash banks being
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know, really as an intimidation tactic. So I believe a lot of the

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flash bangs you're hearing are probably more
so you know, fired in that line,

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just based on the observation of Michael
that said, police here, do

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you have zip ties? They do
have the toons. I'm still seeing officers

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here with those flash bang guns,
so we could see more use of that.

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I want to just give you the
numbers right now amy of protesters that

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are in front, because this group
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loud. I'm sure you can still
hear those chants, but that said,

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very few remain I would say fifty
or so remain. This group's probably been

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cut in half. Okay, and
again that's just one flank of the standoff

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there. This is one of two
main flanks exactly. Okay, all right,

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Blake Trolley, We're going to let
you go do some more investigation and

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check back with us again a little
bit later this hour. Thank you so

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much for this information. Hopefully this
will be peacefully resolved and we will be

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here and we will be watching it
and we will bring you the latest,

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Thanks Blake. Hundreds of California law
enforcement officers are facing off with pro Palestinian

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protesters outside Royce Hall at UCLA.
Arrests are being made as police attempt to

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clear out a weekled encampment that has
been declared unlawful. There's been pushing and

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shoving between officers and protesters. Several
things were hurled at officers. Dozens of

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USC faculty members then moving over to
USC Dozens of faculty members have marched across

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the campus in support of pro Palestinian
protesters. They called for amnesty for students

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who were arrested during a massive demonstration
last week. Some students joined in the

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procession late yesterday afternoon. Mayor Bass
has cut short her trip to Washington to

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DC to appeal to lawmakers for more
money to handle homelessness, and she's coming

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back to LA to deal with the
protests at UCLA's campus. The mayor was

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leading a delegation of mayors to urge
Congress to give cities more flexibility and building

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affordable housing, among other issues.
At six so five it's handled on the

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news. The House is passed and
anti Semitism bill with support from both sides

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of the ilist protests continue across the
country. Now, let's say good morning

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to ABC's Crime and Terrorism analyst Brad
Garrett. And Brad, with everything unfolding

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at UCLA, I'm glad we get
the opportunity to talk to you about the

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protests at UCLA and maybe the mindset
of the students participating in them. You

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say that there's a contagion effect on
college campuses. What do you mean by

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that? So as you look at
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of the start of this for lack
of better picks, and it spread so

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quickly, I mean between social media
and the media because we cover it obviously

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to a large extent. It gets
a lot of coverage, and between the

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two, the belief is that it's
contagious that kids at UCLA, kids that

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fill the blank university go yeah,
we agree with that, and so they

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start something. The unknown factor here
is how much let's just see use UCLA

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since you're there, of those agitators
or protesters are outside agitators. I'm going

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to be interested to see because I've
heard some fairly high numbers in New York

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as to who was arrested in Hamilton
Hall and who was actually not a student,

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and that's going to be a driver
to a large extent as to what

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you have the composition of. Are
the agitators basically driving the train here and

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the kids are going along with it. So we'll see. I saw I

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was watching one of the networks and
I saw some coverage where they had the

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students trying to barricade Hamilton Hall.
This is on the Columbia University campus,

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and somebody who was obviously not a
student, a much older woman, was

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basically coaching them this is how you
do this, this is the way to

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do it. Do this, don't
do that. Obviously an outside person coming

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to lend a helping hand, so
no doubt. NYPD is even stated that

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they ide'd some people in the crowd
that they knew were outside agitators because they

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have a history. I mean there's
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So yes, the configuration of how
the doors are barricaded. One of the

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NYPD commissioners commented about how so many
of the tents were similar, suggesting that

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someone bought all those tents or a
chunk of those tents outside agitation, you

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know, possibly because their goal.
They probably have many, but one is

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they actually want to have physical confrontation
with the police because it pushes whatever cause

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they're involved in. But does it
advance the cause? Does it advance the

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cause though? Does it create sympathy
or does it create animosity? Well,

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if you look at the in the
short term, maybe if you look at

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the studies, they would suggest that
when you have law enforcement intervention, it

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does embolden the cause, so to
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and so it can have an effect
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That doesn't mean law enforcement shouldn't be
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I'm just suggesting it's a bit of
a no win situation for law enforcement.

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And police are now going in and
working to clear the encampment at UCLA

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similar to what they did on the
campus of Columbia University earlier this week.

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You think the police are doing the
right thing, absolutely, In fact,

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if I were the president of Columbia, I would have done it long before

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she did. That was going to
be my next question because because absolutely you

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cannot allow people to break the law, to take over buildings, to damage

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buildings. Apparently there's extensive damage inside
Hamilton Hall. That's just not right.

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You have to deal with that and
people have to be appropriately charged. And

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so it's fine to demonstrate you have
First Amendment rights. You want to stand

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and peacefully yell whatever you want to
yell, go at it. But when

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you step over the boundary into safety
issues, into taking over buildings, to

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damaging buildings, need to be held
accountable. Okay, Brad Garrett, thank

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you so much for the insight.
We appreciate it and look forward to talking

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to you again soon. Sounds great, Take care see Amy. All right,

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let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty

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four hour newsroom. Of course,
the protests at UCLA pro Palestinian protesters are

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being arrested and zip tied as police
work to disperse the group on campus.

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This protester outside Perlof Hall tells KTLA
faculty members are being arrested as well.

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Even though not all the students were
UCLA students, The crowd what was comprised

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mostly of thirty and under a lot
of eighteen nineteen twenty year olds, and

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the police officers were definitely overusing the
forest cent regards to that that protester is

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not a student at UCLA. He
says he's a student at cal State Dominga's

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Hills and just took his LSATs.
He left the camp before he was arrested.

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He says he wants to be a
lawyer one day. More than thirteen

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hundred demonstrators across several universities have been
arrested for protesting the ongoing war between Israel

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and Hamas a lot of students have
set up camps calling for total divestment from

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anyone who funds Israel. About three
hundred protesters we're arrested Tuesday night at Columbia

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University and City College of New York
As we were just talking with Brad Garrett

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about Other arrests have been made at
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UT Dallas, University of North Carolina
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A pregnant woman in Palmdale has been
killed weeks before delivering twins. La

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County Sheriffs deputies say they found the
woman dead in a pool of blood in

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her apartment Tuesday night. Family members
asked for a welfare check because they hadn't

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heard from her. Detectives say they're
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apartment complex. Several bills that the
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La City Council. One of the
bills at the state Senate would give more

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local control over laws related to self
driving vehicles. Kelcil in Hugo Soto Martinez

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says those decisions should not be left
to unelected state agencies. This common sense

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legislation will keep California road safe and
put power back into local communities. The

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City Council also voted unanimously yesterday to
voice at support to bills that would ban

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leaded fuel for airplanes and prohibit the
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Another supports further funding for state homelessness
programs. Michael Monks KFI News BOC Water

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majority of people and forty five percent
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to seventy LA Sports. Police have methodically

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ripped apart the pro Palestinian protesters barricade
that's made up of plywood palettes, metal

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fences, and trash dumpsters surrounding the
encampment on the UCLA campus. We're going

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to go back now live to Blake
Trolley, who's on the campus at UCLA.

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Blake, what are you seeing?
Yeah? So, you know,

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Amy, the last time we caught
up, what we had seen was police

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really pushing these protesters through a quad
and they have effectively from the time that

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you and I had started speaking earlier
this hour to now push these protesters out

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towards the street. And when I
say street, I'm mean not a street

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within the campus, a street outside
of campus. That protester group that we

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saw earlier today, just a backtrack, there are about one hundred protesters chanting

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against police and riot gear in this
wing of campus. These officers have since

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pushed them out of a street that
cuts through the university if you will,

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through a quad out to now the
other side where there's another street, but

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that street would just be to you
know, the city, that would get

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you out of the university. The
protest group has significantly shrinks since we first

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started covering this specific little wing.
They're about one hundred I would say they're

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down to about fifty right now,
and officers are slowly pushing them, slowly

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pushing them through the quad in off
the campus. Right now, campus is

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essentially locked down. I mean,
even for press to get on, it

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was really hard to move about.
I just saw a student and I'm guessing

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he's just unfortunately ended up on campus
try to cut through here. He's in

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a UCLA shirt. He does not
look like he's affiliated with the protests,

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and officers put lights on him and
told him to turn around. So officers

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right now closing in on the final
few protesters of this wing. And what

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we're seeing these officers do is they
stand, they give dispersal orders. Maybe

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in the beginning of every push they
tell them to leave. The protesters seem

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to essentially stand defiant, and then
the police little by little start advancing towards

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these protesters. And these protesters moved
back. Now, I want to talk

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about a conversation I had amy with
a couple of protesters. A couple pushes

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ago, if you will, So
every time one of these comes to a

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stop, the protesters start chanting.
You may hear that in the background right

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now. I spoke to a couple
of protesters and a couple, you know.

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One of the things that they told
me was, well, we're upset

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that this is being dismantled. Class
was supposed to be over in two weeks,

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so this wouldn't affect campus. I
had asked them, was your plan

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to leave when school got out?
Then? What was this camp really just

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set up until summer? Was that
what you were hoping for? And they

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had said no, that they would
have remained on campus through the summer had

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it not been dispersed, and they
would have continued to push for the school

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to divest in Israeli companies. Okay, So, Blake, are you seeing

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any of the students being arrested?
I have not seen any arrest. This

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group specifically keeps retreating, and I
believe officers right now are mainly focused on

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getting them pushed off of campus.
Morning is something that I am really curious

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to see. I am very curious
to see if this baseball is being hit

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into a glove essentially, because officers
are surrounding the campus. So when they

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pushed them to the street, is
that where they're timately going to arrest them.

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That's going to be to be determined
with this specific group. What I

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have seen a couple of times is
officers kind of noticing that protesters as they

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get pushed. Keep in mind,
these pushes are not the most organized,

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if you will. Once they start
pushing, these students run everywhere. They

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run in every direction, and the
officers do the best job that they can.

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You can really see that they're they're
trying to get a containment line around

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them, but there is still some
seepage and you'll see those students start kind

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of running out into the campus,
if you will, away from the officer

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line. And I don't see too
many breakaways to make arrests on those cases.

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Okay, And when you when you
talk about the push, paint us

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a picture of it. It's so
it's a line of officers in the pass

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in riot gear. You have police, yeah, you have police and riot

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gear, and they are forming a
line. But sometimes that line actually becomes

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more of whatever the shape of the
quad is, because they're really just forming

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a barrier, if you will,
uh, so that the students can only

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move in one direction, that a
line of officers will remain will remain standing

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firm, and then at it seems
like every few minutes or so, it

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starts pushing forward towards these students to
get them to retreat, if you will,

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you were taught. I have not
seen any munitions youth. In fact,

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during these pushes, I haven't even
seen flash bangs us. But that's

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just for this specific you know,
contingent of protesters. What really I see

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is just police in riot here,
maybe one hundred or so officers, and

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every five six minutes they start running
and charging towards these students and then the

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or towards these protesters, I should
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But these protesters don't have a lot
of real estate left. They are being

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pushed towards the edge of campus here, as you said, possibly hitting a

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ball into a glove. And it'll
be so fascinating to watch. Tell me

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about the protest. Just what do
the protesters look like? A lot of

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these are very young people, you
know, the best I could describe is

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a lot of young people. Many
of them are wearing masks, some are

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even in heavier gear than that.
There are some people in yellow vests,

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and I'm kind of curious what their
function is with the group. They seem

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to be hanging in the back of
the group. But really just think about

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a mix of very young people.
And at least the three that I spoke

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with, they all essentially had told
me they are very upset that the school

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is responding this way. They were
very critical of the school's response to pushing

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them out. If you listen to
some of the chants that are going on

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here, the protesters are chanting,
no riot here, why are you and

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riot gear? The students here feel
that they were not and we heard this

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yesterday. I spoke to somebody in
the encampment. They said, listen,

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we are not island. That is
at least the position that they're taking.

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That said, police here are dispersing
them, okay, And do the protesters

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that you're seeing are they the ones
with helmets on as well? Because we've

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seen several when there was that large
skirmish line between police and protesters, it

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was like a one line or two
lines of police and like five or six

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deep right at the edge of the
encampment, and most of them had white

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helmets on. Yeah, so I
saw a couple in this group. There

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were a couple of them, notably
in those white helmets. Actually, i'm

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looking right now, there's maybe four
or five of them in this specific group

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that are in those white helmets.
It may seem to be at the front

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of the line if you look towards
the back. What's really interesting is there's

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a lot of, like I said, young people here. Some are in

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hoodies, some are in hats,
a lot of face masks, and they

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are I mean a few of them
in the back. They are actually on

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their phones right now. So the
front of the line that's champing towards police

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is there very intense. In the
back again, they look pretty relaxed,

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like they're just on their phones.
And this is all within fifty feet.

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So the front of the line is
about fifty feet ahead of these students who

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seem to just be texting in the
in the back here. Okay, And

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then as you said that, they're
pushing forward or pushing them towards the edge

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of campus. How far are they
from the edge of campus. I mean

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so right now. It's hard to
say because there's kind of a windy path

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that they're going to have to take, but I would say less definitely less

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than a quarter mile. And when
I say less than a quarter mile,

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I mean far less than a quarter
mile, maybe maybe a hundred maybe one

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hundred yards if you factor in the
fact that they're winding as the crow flives,

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less than one hundred yards. Like
they're being pushed again. So here

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we go. So we're actually watching
them get being pushed right now. And

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and just like the rest of these
pushes we've seen. So we've been on

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the phone here ay a few minutes. When we first got on the phone,

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they had just come to us to
a halt the police. Did we

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just hear move? So you hear
those officers yell move, they push these

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protesters backwards. At this point,
we've got a there's a very uh,

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there's a very small number of protesters
that are left here. There's one person

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in the yellow vest handing out water
bottles to some of the protesters that are

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getting pushed back. I would say
there's maybe fifty protesters. It looks like

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some of them. Actually we talk
about being on the edge of campus.

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I'm seeing a group right now,
one, two, three, four,

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five, six, seven, So
seven of them it looks like are just

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choosing to leave. One of those
protesters in the white helmet. Actually we've

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got a couple more now in the
back, so three more are following that

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group. I think they're seeing the
edge of campus here. They're seeing that

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there are police and right here directly
in front of them to get back on

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campus if they were to try to
take the only other entrants they have that's

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blocked off by police. And the
energy with some of these protesters really does

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appear to be winding, okay,
and you said that they're just kind of

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walking off, So if they choose
to just leave the group and walk away,

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they're letting them go. I mean, it's hard to say, right

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because I can't see. I mean, this looks this appears to be the

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direct edge of campus. That said
down the road. Is there a police

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barricade set up to make arrest as
they try to exit. It's hard to

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determine from where I'm standing, but
it doesn't appear that they are. Like

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these students are walking out of the
group and there's officers directly behind making arrest.

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Now, I'm not seeing anything like
that. What would I guess turn

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into arrest would be if there is
a you know, some sort of checkpoint

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or barricade set up that I'm just
not able to see right now as they

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go down this road. All right, TROLLI thank you so much. Like

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Trully on the campus of UCLA for
KFI this morning, as protests continue,

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but police are dismantling that in tampment
that has been outside Royce Hall for more

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than a week now, hundreds of
officers have been breaking down barricades surrounding the

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pro Palestinian encampment outside Royce Hall on
the UCLA campus. The students had been

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told for hours to disperse and ignore
those orders. Police have moved in.

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Flash bangs have been fired, and
what appears to be smoke grenades have been

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set off. Not clear if it's
coming from inside there, came from inside

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the camp or from out. They
have also had objects thrown at officers.

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We're going to go back to the
campus of UCLA where Break Blake trolley is

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watching the action unfold. Blake,
what's the latest. Well, one thing

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you'll probably notice right now, Amy, is that now it's quiet in the

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background of the final protesters. They
were pushed towards that street that we were

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just talking about here moments ago.
There's a few that have remained, but

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this is no longer an active protest. There's a few people here. They're

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currently being interviewed by media that said. Everybody else did retreat towards that that

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road. As you'll remember, we
saw about ten or so initially take the

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street and uh, and then the
rest did leave. I saw probably ten

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or so pack into the same white
van. I'll be posting some video of

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that to social media. It was
really interesting. As this protest got pushed

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back to the street, there was
a white mini van that showed up.

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You started hearing people being offered rides
and uh, quite a few got quite

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a few sardines into that cad.
It was. It was a it looked

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like a tight ride. Maybe that's
for a few minutes ago. Yeah,

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yeah, it was. It was
really interesting to see because they, like

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I said, they really packed into
that van, and then that van drove

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off. The campus already has a
different film actually looking ahead right now and

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I see a guy walking his Golden
retrievers through the quad. This same quad

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was just the just the scene of
a very loud protest with police and riot

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gear pushing these protesters back, and
now we have it looks like a guy

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who probably just lives in the neighborhood
walking his dogs through a quad all within

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the same hour, which is very
bizarre. Okay, And just to be

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clear, Blake, you're not in
the quad that's outside Royce Hall where the

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encampment is. You are in on
another flank of where the protest was going

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on. Yeah, I was on
another flank, and so now I'm walking

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towards that encampment and I was hoping
to do that while we're on the phone.

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So I'm trying to make my way
over there, just to give you

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an idea of how far they push
these protesters. I'm guessing it's gonna take

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me a couple of minutes as I
kind of hike over there right now to

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get a look at what it looks
like over that. Why don't we do

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this, Blake. We're gonna let
you go ahead and hike over there and

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get set up in that area,
and then we'll we'll have a bill handle

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check in with you after the top
of the hour and you can get us

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the latest on that. Okay,
sounds good. Thank you all right,

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Thank you Blake TuS really for all
your great information this morning. Wow,

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it's just amazing how quickly that all
unfolded. As you know that they were

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told to disperse after it was declared
that it was an unlawful protest or an

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unlawful gathering. They ignored those orders, and those warnings continued through the night

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as police continued to amass around the
encampment, and then shortly before three o'clock

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this morning, they went in and
started taking it apart. And we're going

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to get the latest from Blake as
a situation continues to unfold with Bill Handle

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just after the top of the hour. Let's check in now with some of

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the other stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom, because there's

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still a whole lot going on on
all around the world. Four people are

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wanted for organized retail theft at a
shopping mall in Orange County. Irvine PDE

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says the group targeted a Champs Sports
at the Irvine Spectrum. The group is

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accused of stealing nikes from the store
before leaving the area in two cars.

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One was a gray Mitsab She Outland
or SUV. The other was a black

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Volkswagen Passat Sedan. Police posted pictures
of the four people online yesterday, asking

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for help in identifying them. Officials
have issued ocean water warnings for several beaches

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in La County. They said yesterday
people should avoid the beaches because of high

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levels of bacteria. The warnings will
remain in effect until further notice. The

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La County Department of Public Health says
bacterian debris can seep from city streets and

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mountain areas, contaminating the ocean.
The warning includes the Santa Monica Peer,

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Malibu Lagoon, Inner Cabrio Beach,
Los Floris Creek, and several other beaches.

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Another hearing in former President Trump's criminal
hush money trial will be heard in

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New York regarding a gag order to
determine if four other statements from Trump violated

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the gag order, including one he
made in the hallway outside court. ABC's

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Brian Clark says the hearing comes before
testimony in the case is set to resume.

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Trump was fined on Tuesday nine thousand
dollars after he was found in contempt

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of court for violating the order nine
separate times. The judge says if he

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doesn't knock it off, he could
be facing jail time. People protesting over

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how the twenty twenty four Paris Olympics
will impact the area have rallied outside the

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French Interior Ministry offices. The Way
the homeless People I evicted, the Way

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squads I evicted, emergency centers Harassment
of sex workers group organizer Antoine de Clerc

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says everything is in the hands of
the Home Ministry. More than seventy non

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governmental organizations issued a letter this week
warning of the risk of social cleansing on

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what they call societies most marginalized.
A court in Europe has upheld Italy's right

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to seize a Greek statue from the
J. Paul Getty Museum. The court

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rejected the museum's appeal, ruling that
Italy was right to try to reclaim an

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important part of its cultural heritage.
The Getty had appealed a High Court Italian

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ruling in twenty eighteen that claimed the
right to confiscate the statue. The life

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sized bronze statue, named Victorious Youth, dates back from three one hundred BC

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to one hundred BC. Some scholars
say it was made by Alexander the Great's

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personal sculptor. Hey, Alexander the
Great, that's the name of my cat.

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The number of arrests made at Stagecoach
Country Music Festival last weekend was up

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by more than twenty five percent compared
to last year. Belice in Indiosay officers

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made one hundred twelve arrests between Thursday
and Sunday. Sixty three people were picked

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up for drug, alcohol or intoxication
related offenses. Forty nine were arrested for

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having fake IDs. Thanks again for
joining us for wake Up Call. It's

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been quite a morning, and as
we mentioned, Blake Trolley is going to

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be live with Bill Handel just after
the top of the hour to bring us

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the latest on the dismantling of the
protests at UCLA. This is KFI and

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kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange
County, live from the KFI twenty four

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hour newsroom for producer and and technical
producer Koner and also traffic specialist Nick.

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I'm Amy King. This has been
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