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Two California mayors clashed on social media after regulation enforcement was known as to confront anti-Israel agitators on the College of California, Irvine campus.
Whereas replying to a UC Irvine public announcement to college students on X, Irvine Mayor Farrah Khan and former Newport Seashore Mayor Will O’Neill shared their aggressive views as regulation enforcement swarmed onto the California campus after protesters arrange barricades.
“It’s a disgrace that peaceable free speech protests are at all times responded to with violence,” Khan wrote. “Taking area on campus or in a constructing is just not a menace to anybody.”
“UCI management should do all the things they’ll to keep away from making a violent state of affairs right here. These are your college students w/ zero weapons,” she added.
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Irvine Mayor Farrah Khan seemingly condemned regulation enforcement for responding to the College of California, Irvine campus – on the request of the college – as anti-Israel protesters took over a constructing. (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register by way of Getty Pictures)
Following the Irvine mayor’s feedback on regulation enforcement, the previous Newport Seashore mayor slammed Khan’s “careless wording,” saying that she “preemptively accused officers” of violence.
“Cops from Newport Seashore are at present in Irvine offering help on the request of a mutual assist name. Your careless wording makes it seem that you’re preemptively accusing our officers, and officers from the various regulation enforcement companies who responded, of violence,” O’Neill replied.
O’Neill known as for the present mayor to “make clear” her message.
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“If that’s what you meant, then your message is beneath the workplace of Mayor. If it isn’t, then make clear instantly,” he wrote.
Legislation enforcement companies have been known as to reply to anti-Israel agitators taking on a constructing on the College of California, Irvine campus on Wednesday, Could 15. (Fox Information)
The dueling feedback got here after UC Irvine was swarmed by anti-Israel agitators on Wednesday afternoon.
In a press release to Fox Information Digital, a UC Irvine spokesperson mentioned that the campus erupted into chaos after a number of a whole lot of protesters entered the Bodily Sciences Lecture Corridor and commenced to barricade the constructing at 2:30 p.m. PST.
A number of hundred anti-Israel protesters entered the Bodily Sciences Lecture Corridor at UC Irvine on Wednesday and commenced barricading themselves inside, regardless of the college demanding that they go away the world. (REUTERS/Mike Blake)
The college mentioned that it put out a name to native regulation enforcement and acquired speedy help from the Irvine Police Division and the Orange County Sheriff’s Division.
At the least one protester was seen being arrested in livestream footage of the anti-Israel agitators’ confrontation with police.
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Authorities mentioned that the protesters who entered the campus on Wednesday afternoon joined the established encampment that has been occupying the campus since April 29.
Fox Information Digital has reached out to Khan and O’Neill for remark.
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten is a breaking information author for Fox Information Digital and Fox Enterprise.
She is a local of Massachusetts and is predicated in Orlando, Florida.
Story ideas and concepts may be despatched to sarah.rumpf@fox.com and on X: @s_rumpfwhitten.
California mayors duel on social media about police response to UC Irvine
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