Shortly before 3:30 a.m., four Daily Bruin reporters were walking on campus when they were followed and then assaulted.
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- 25 protesters within the pro-Palestine encampment were hospitalized overnight, a UC Divest at UCLA spokesperson said in a press conference.
- LAPD has threatened to arrest Daily Bruin reporters between Royce Hall and Haines Hall.
- Replying to @dailybruinFive to six assailants also sprayed reporters with an irritant. As some reporters went to help a reporter that was pulled to the ground, assailants began to record on their cellphones.
- Editorial: UCLA has failed its students in not taking action to prevent violence between protesters and counter-protesters at the pro-Palestine encampment.
00:00Counter-protesters just threw a firework at the encampment.- Graeme Blair, associate professor of political science and member of Faculty for Justice in Palestine, said via text message that professors inside the encampment “plan to be arrested alongside students who have done nothing but talk about a genocide taking place in Palestine.”
- UC Berkeley has been removed from the U.S. News & World Report's 2019 Best Colleges rankings after notifying the media outlet that it misreported data. For the record, UCLA is still the No. 1 public university. dailybruin.com/2019/07/26/uc-…
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- "There were students that had head bleeds, brain bleeds from those rubber bullets." Medics and physicians who treated those injured in the attack on and sweep of the Palestine solidarity encampment recalled the violence they saw.
- Counter-protesters supporting Israel are violently trying to enter the encampment and have taken down protective barricades.
- Royce Hall was left covered in graffiti after police cleared the encampment. Phrases painted on the walls included "Divest from genocide" and "Free Gaza."
- K-pop group NCT DREAM is touring the United States for the first time. Dive into their interview with the Daily Bruin's Victoria Ke Li and other student-journalists.
- In a texted statement to the Daily Bruin, Faculty for Justice in Palestine member Graeme Blair said student protesters are being “violently dragged” from the encampment by CHP. He added that officers have guns loaded with less-than-lethal rounds pointed at students.
