The University of California Police Department (UCPD ) is using what the , Los Angeles Times describes as” Jan. 6 tactics” to identify vigilantes who attacked the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA ) “encampment” April 30.
As Breitbart News reported, 100 or so police attacked the camp on the night of April 30 to May 1, and were attacked in profit. The melee was ignored by police for days. The camp had been physically abusing Jewish students on campus for almost a week and preventing them and anyone else from entering the main triple on campus. The protesters physically assaulted journalists, including this writer, while using racist language.
UCLA did not intervene, and UCPD was said to have been told by the school not to harm the camp. According to a security official who spoke with Breitbart News, the camp has been given specialist control over the camp.
State and local authorities finally responded to the issues posed by the camp, which was ultimately cleared the following evening, after the overnight struggle.
L. A. After making no such guarantees about the camp for nearly a year, where Jewish students and Jewish communities living near were forced to live in dread, Mayor Karen Bass and UCLA Chancellor Gene Block made the promise to sue and condemn the vigilantes.
President Joe Biden himself claimed on Tuesday that the protesters ‘ steps were racist, without making a specific reference to UCLA:
We’ve seen a ferocious rise of racism in America and around the world as Jews continue to cope with the crimes and pain of that day [October 7th ] and its fallout: vicious advertising on social media, Zionists forced to keep their kippahs hidden under baseball caps, and Jews forced to tuck their Jewish stars into their shirts.
On school campuses, Israeli students blocked, harassed, attacked while walking to school.
Antisemitism — racist posters, slogans calling for the death of Israel, the nation’s even Jewish State.
Too many people denying, downplaying, rationalizing, ignoring the evils of the Holocaust and October 7th, including Hamas’s horrible use of physical assault to torture and terrify Immigrants.
It’s definitely vile, and it must cease.
However, the school did not act until provoked to do so by the police.
Then, the , Times reports, the UCPD is undertaking what may be the biggest research in its history, using methods that federal law enforcement used, quite as facial recognition equipment, in the analysis of the January 6 Capitol rebellion:
How many people were arrested last week at a pro-Palestinian camp on the campus, according to what may be the biggest case in the police department’s history.
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In an effort to find the attackers, UCLA detectives are currently scanning hundreds of images. According to law enforcement sources, they intend to use facial recognition technology to display names on faces when they compare them to other photos on the internet and social media.
Similar technology has enabled police to identify suspects in retail burglaries that are “scratch and grab.” The FBI was able to identify many of the assailants through the use of videos of those storming the U.S. Capitol, which also served as the springboard for federal prosecutors ‘ charges against more than 1,300 people. In those cases, investigators frequently discovered social media images of the attackers sporting the same attire as they had during the attack.
Police at the campment, according to pro-Palestinian activists, favored the vigilantes because they took so long to react. Police and security, however, tolerated the camp for days after allegedly receiving UCLA’s refrain from intervening.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor- at- Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p. m. to 10 p. m. ET ( 4 p. m. to 7 p. m. PT ). He is the author of the recent e- book,” The Zionist Conspiracy ( and how to join it )”, now available on Audible. He is also the author of the e- book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U. S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
