“We are a civil society, and order must prevail,” Mr. Biden stated from the White House in response to a wave of student disturbance, in his first direct comments.
In the past two weeks, police have arrested over 2,000 people at student protests and protest camps around the nation.
This comprises 209 arrests made at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) early on Thursday.
Before morning, hundreds of riot-suited officers dispersed the pro-Palestinian camp on UCLA’s main campus.
They destroyed the temporary barriers and tents that had been built on campus a week earlier, set off flash bangs and flares, and bundled protestors onto police buses.
