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When Meghna Nair, a second-year student at the University of California, Los Angeles, saw a masked group of people headed toward the pro-Palestine encampment on campus late Tuesday evening, she expected trouble.
But the violence that unfolded on the public university’s campus overnight and the slow response from authorities shocked Nair and other UCLA students.
I knew where they were going. I had an idea what they planned to do. I didn’t know what to do.”
This is like sacred ground to me. It reminded me of January 6. It was terrifying.”
I was on the phone with my girlfriend, and I was like, what the fuck is happening right now? What the actual fuck? I’ve never seen this in real life. This is stuff that only happens in movies.”