Two people were detained at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus last night, April 30, during an attempted screening of the new documentary The Encampments (2025), according to local reports and a university statement. Videos posted on social media show dozens of university police officers storming the campus in full riot gear at around 9pm as a group was gathering for the unofficial screening, hosted by the school’s suspended Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter.
The independent student-run community news platform Poppy Press reported that one of the two individuals detained during the screening shutdown was taken to the emergency room for injuries. Hyperallergic was unable to independently verify this or whether the two people detained were UCLA students.
Some videos of the incident.
https://nitter.tiekoetter.com/SJPatUCLA/status/1917817727554838723#m
https://nitter.tiekoetter.com/dailybruin/status/1917806471649321270#m
Now you know I may not have healthcare, or even the potential to access healthcare that’s even good, or an affordable place to live, or the money to take a real vacation, or the time and energy to explore the majority of meaningful ways in which I’d like to enrich my life, or clean water, or any kind of hope for the future whatsoever… but at least I don’t live in some communist hellhole without FREEDOM!