"Protests don’t end with police action. They end with negotiations. Every time there’s been police intervention in a protest, it’s tended to escalate the protest."

The University of California Board of Regents approved a request for additional non-lethal weapons from the Los Angeles campus police Thursday following massive pro-Palestinian protests that took place last school year.

The unfolding rules are a response to last spring’s series of campus protests that led to hundreds of arrests. State lawmakers withheld $25 million from the UC until the system updated its policies.

The University of California board of regents has approved UCLA police’s request for additional non-lethal weapons

Police departments across the University of California system are asking for more non-lethal weapons in a process officials call “routine,” but with memories of the handling of last