LA police used UCLA's Jackie Robinson Stadium to temporarily house people who had been detained during protests and demonstrations Tuesday night.
The matter was amplified on Twitter by UCLA urban planning professor Ananya Roy, who posted a"Last evening, UCLA students were arrested for engaging in the constitutionally protected right to peacefully protest against racial injustice, which is pervasive in American policing," it reads."They were detained and processed at a stadium on their own campus named after Jackie Robinson, an icon of the long and unfinished struggle for Black freedom.
The letter indicates detainees were brought to the stadium on Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department prisoner buses but that they were apparently arrested by the LAPD.As of Tuesday morning, the LAPD had arrested more than 2,700 people, and it was clear from imagery from scenes in Hollywood and downtown that many more were detained by late night. The department said it would not have total arrest numbers for the day until Wednesday.
Some in the city are calling for the police chief to resign after comments he made earlier in the week that“His death is on their hands, as much as it is on those officers," Chief Michel Moore said Monday. He has since walked back the statement.
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