Cal State Los Angeles protesters have been occupying an area of the campus for more than a month, agitating over the war in Gaza.
But on Wednesday, they escalated their actions immensely when they seized the Student Services building with employees, including the president of the university, stuck still inside.
BREAKING NEWS: 8 hours into the @CalStateLA student services building occupation:
– The entrance/exits are under the control of rogue pro-Pal activists and vandals
– A handful of employees, Including the University’s President remain trapped and claim to be sheltering in place.… pic.twitter.com/AlibgrggOW
— Chris Cristi (@abc7chriscristi) June 13, 2024
They then began to vandalize the building, spraying graffiti about “Palestine,” erecting barricades so people couldn’t get into the building, and chaining themselves to the front of it. They piled up furniture,…