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The union representing the 10 University of California police departments says UC administrators, not the UCLA police chief, are to blame for UCLA's response to on-campus protests last week.
In a statement, the Federated University Police Officers Association said the lack of response to violence from pro-Israeli counter-protesters at the UCLA encampment on Tuesday, and subsequent raid on the encampment early Thursday morning, followed the guidelines written by UC administrators.
”The written guidelines for roles and responsibilities make clear that senior UC administrators on each campus are solely responsible for the University’s response to campus protests; those administrators decide the objective, and campus police are only responsible for tactics in implementing those objectives,” said Wade Stern, President of the FUPOA. “As such, the UCLA administration owns all the fallout from the response and lack of response to this protest.”
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