(Breitbart) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) complained Wednesday evening after the University of Southern California (USC) cleared an encampment that anti-Israel protesters had set up at the private Los Angeles campus.
As the Daily Trojan reported, Los Angeles Police Department officers moved in on Wednesday after several dozen protesters set up an unauthorized encampment. They used sponge batons and zip ties to make dozens of arrests.
CAIR issued a statement in which it condemned USC’s “violent crackdown and alleged use of excessive force.”
CAIR-LA Legal Director Amr Shabaik said:
Free speech rights are restricted on private property, and “time, place, and manner” restrictions apply even on public property, which can include preventing overnight encampment.
Protesters at USC also used anti-police rhetoric, with one (seen in the photo below) holding a hat that read “ACAB” (All Cops Are Bastards), a familiar slogan from the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 24: Pro-Palestine demonstrators yell towards USC public safety officers after officers attempted to take down an encampment in support of Gaza at the University of Southern California on April 24, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Pro-Palestinian encampments have sprung up at college campuses around the country recently. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
CAIR’s radicalism is a matter of record. CAIR director Nihad Awad declared that he was “happy” with the Hamas terror attack against Israel on October 7.
CAIR-LA has a particular history of supporting the radical Islamic cause, helping the family of the terrorists who murdered over a dozen people in San Bernardino in 2015, and blaming U.S. foreign policy for inspiring the attack.
As Breitbart news has noted:
