Chaos on the campus of ucla. Right now, at this minute, police are making rouses while battling with propalestinian protesters. Brian Activists With Shields and umbrellas, yeah, umbrellas, and pieces of Plywood Blocking Entryways to Keep Police Officers out. Police in riot gear positioned around the encampment red to corral the crowd. Lawrence lets bring in William La Jeunesse. What are you seeing on the ground. Police are rushing in right now. What else the scene like. Its a very volatile situation. We are in the main corridor, the mall if you will. This is where the encampment is here. You can see chp is lined up here. They will be the first line going in if indeed the order is given. And then you have. [no audio] back very important in the small there is another line of lapd and they are moving right now. So, when we arrived here several hours ago, there was about 1,000 people outside. They dispersed a little bit. Now, there was just on the bullhorn some of the sympathizers to the encampment, if you will, say we need people over here so the police are definitely moving. Probably trying to find a soft spot in terms of trying to access point into the encampment itself. Now, it this was declared an Unlawful Assembly on tuesday, right . A Dispeferl Order was given 9 hours ago. Multiple times on the Bullhorn Police have told people to disperse so the people inside who are there want to be there we havage tears in there. [hold the line] hold the line. Thats the word going out. There are a number of Access Points along the mall if you will. Thats where we believe police have redeployed. Having been around almost a 360 of this entire area. There are a number of different places where students have staged, right . And theyre armed as well, helmets, gas masks, clubs, 2 by 4s. And so how they are going to react when please go in thats a big question to me. There is probably about 150, maybe 200 police here total from the different agencies at least arrived havent had access you cant go in and out as a reporter. Those ramparts and barricades reinforced. Having declared Unlawful Assembly did nothing over the past 36 to 48 hours to stop them from reinforcing and resupplying themselves. We saw more and more. Three quarter inch plywood coming in yesterday bringing in hammers, power tools. Zip ties to try to bring these fences together. So if you try to make a frontal assault here, it could be long, it could be ugly, it could be very, very difficult to do, because they have reinforced. They have obviously umbrellas. They have tents to stop from tear gas. They are gassed up. We have seen video from the inside of here how they are prepared. If, indeed, police do move in and how they are going to do that, im not sure. You have a little bit of movement here. I was going to say these guys did not have their face shields down which normally they would if they are going to make the movement. There definitely appears to be something here. They are making a formation now that did not exist before. Okay. You can see more lapd coming in from the side here. It looks like okay. They are in heavy gear. Okay. I think what we have got happening here. They are going to make their move right now. Definitely appears that those officers are in heavy riot gear. Im surprised they didnt bring in like a bearcat to make a movement here because, like i said, i dont know how they are going to go in unless they have some flash bangs and a ramrod. Lets take stay with our camera right here. Unless you have got ariel. Aeri, looks like they found a soft point to go in and we are watching that right now. The university had declared this unlawful. And, yet, they did nothing to stop it. Also, we had some inconsistencies between the chancellor who said who called this unlawful, yet, some support from the president of the uc system. Michael drake, who then called for an investigation because there wasnt police early enough. Brian william, quick question. Are the police outnumbered . Definitely so. Definitely so. By the students. Now, how many people are still on the inside, im not sure. But we did see them being resupplied even later today with food, with water, again with plywood, gas masks. That kind of thing. Steve william, when you say on the inside, you are talking about the encampment, which a moment ago you said that ucla administrators said on tuesday declared it was illegal. And then yesterday, of course, we saw the melee when the local, you know, we had a guest on who said it was jewish people from los angeles who just took it upon themselves to go and certainly, you know, get in the face of these protesters. So, as we look at this right here, explain, if you would,. Lawrence trying to blind the cops right here. You see them shining these lights on them. Steve they got the flashers. You said there are people inside. You said there are students. So, obviously, the students, are they just on the outside watching what happens to the people on the inside . Yeah. So sorry about that, you guys. So you have got the encampment itself and then around the plywood that you are seeing, you see a double fence. Then, there is the area where the police are right now. They are staging where we are. And then about 100 yards away there is another fence thats keeping the students, the students, the sympathizers if you will, on the perimeter. So you have got these now three lines, Skirmish Lines of police set up here in front of the encampment. And then, behind them, behind me, watching their back side if you will, is another line of police to try to stop those students, if you will, from coming over another fence and getting involved. Right . Because you got to protect their back side. But you are right. Steve, in terms of the l. A. Community, the Jewish Community here very upset with the attacks on jewish students on campus as well as the antisemitism that was displayed. Brian of course. Women women articulated by these individuals. Lawrence they said they didnt want a response like texas. With the officers coming in and arresting them. They felt it looked too like the military. How is that working out . And i have been talking to some of my cops that i know that is in l. A. That have been dealing with the defund the police movement. They are not happy at all with this. Well, you are right. In terms of the decisionmaking here has been all over the place, right . So, at the beginning any university has got to make that decision. Do you allow the tents go in or not . Obviously, florida, texas, said no we are not allowing them to get a foot hold. They have put down roots. They allowed that to happen. So the fact that the situation were in today, the university only has itself to blame. Then there was a decision as you do, do you just use Campus Security and private security, unarmed in tshirts to try to control the situation . That was a decision made here at ucla russia than we dont want the cops to come in. Now what are they going to do . They have got a situation where the university has a liability. When we had the Counter Protesters come in here two nights ago or whatever it was and, you know, there was 15 injuries or more, they knew they had a situation on their hand. Now what are we going to do, right . We have gone down this path, we have had this thing for week. We want to respect free speech rights. They were supported by the faculty. They were supported by the local politicians. Supported by the governor and so forth. Now what have they got . In some ways, the university is between a rock and hard spot, they had to do something and the consequences we are seeing right now. Kayleigh we see one of the protesters he has his hands up at some point. He has a gas mask on and also moving a garbage can. It looks like is he moving somewhat erratically. Police officers respond and then he sort of backed off. Now you see the police. This is the moment where they finally took down those Police Fences and now it looks like they are going to be moving in. So, jonathan, rather, william, once they do move in, what do you expect to take place . This has been ruled an unlawful encampment. So, should we expect to see students in handcuffs. Brian they are marching out now. They are making it clear. Kayleigh those students have their hands up. Steve yeah, they are on the outside. William looks like they are trying to form a fence over there on the corner. Im not sure you got a different viewpoint than i do. Brian taking the bike racks and pushing them aside and the cops are slowly moving forward. The students or whoever they are are putting their hands up letting them know they are not going to resist. Can you seat troublemakers, the guy dressed in the all white, other people there, the orangers, probably the instigators, they are the ones moving around, moving through. They are almost like coaching them behind the lines. William well, it is true they have nothing to stop coming and exit. They made no effort to cut them off. Cut off the power. Cut off their internet. Cut them off from food and water. They didnt do that right . Again, they have been bringing in three quarter inch plywood. Okay. It looks like the police are moving forward from the Vantage Point i have got right here. Do you want to move forward . Lawrence still trying to blind the cops. They got this perimeter. And they have this barrier that they are trying to get through. And then they have to drag the protesters behind them and still keep a line to protect themselves. So this is a dangerous situation that theyre getting ready to go into. They are being blinded by these protesters with these lights. Steve okay. So theyre moving up. Lets bring in Jonathan Hunt who has got access to one of the screens. He has been following all the chaos at ucla. His wife was tear gassed a couple days ago. Cops briefly entered the encampment. You got to get out you will be suspended or expelled. Then they retreated and now it looks like its going to be gotime. Jonathan yeah, it looks like what they have been doing over the last hour or so is probing various points of that encampment, which is about 100 yards long. Youre looking now at what has generally been considered the front of the encampment where they have put up that big barrier of plywood boards, metal fences, and that seemed to be the last point that police were trying to get into. But now they have made a move in this sort of righthand corner of that. You can see them sort of towards the top of your screen there. Now, some of those protesters seem to be putting their hands up and walking out. They will be taken to the at least i would say eight or so buss that have lined unjust off campus there. Ready to take away those hundreds who will ultimately have to be arrested here. So some of them are giving up. Some, though, are clearly not willing to do so quite so easily. They are among the ones shining those Strobe Lights into the eyes of the Police Officers as they stand ready to move in there. As william was saying, we dont know for sure what kind of weaponry some of those protesters have. We know that there are Baseball Bats in there. We know that they are armed with pepper spray and mace. One of them, as you mentioned, steve, thank you for remembering, sprayed my wife the other day. A reporter with our local affiliates kttv. We know they have those things. We dont know how many of them are prepared to use them when faced with the kind of force that that these members of the california Highway Patrol they are probing the sides again now. Brian can we just think about this . What is the goal here . Is the goal to make massive arrests or is the goal to take apart this encampment and do you get arrested only if you resist . If you are just there and you refuse to leave, are you going to be put on those prison buss . So, they just want to take apart this encampment and deal with whoever wants to push back . They want to take apart the encampment and they will they have declared this, remember, an Unlawful Assembly, they have issued a Dispersal Order so anybody noted a hearing to that Dispersal Order has been subject to being detained for the last nine hours or so since the Dispersal Order was issued. Every one of those people that are there going to be put on those buses. You see them throwing items now towards the officers who are not going to be bothered by those kind of items being thrown at them, as they move in now very distinct buy to begin trying to dismantle that, as william was rightly saying, they have had a week now to build up this barrier, and they have done so very effectively. Steve jonathan, to that point, the cops are starting to take it apart. Right now. With the bike racks, they are taking off the zip ties and anything that are keeping the bike racks together. But the main fofertion are those hundreds of pieces of plywood. How the hell did those get there did home depot make truck load stops right nut middle of the quad . They have been bringing them in over the week or so. Brian why would they let them do that . Jonathan there was no Law Enforcement to stop them. And the Ucla Administration didnt try to stop anybody doing that. And they allowed this encampment to be set up. Did not declare it unlawful. Until about 24 hours ago. Jonathan, after a riot broke out on the ucla campus they allowed the encampment to stay. And then they announced that police were going to come in. So, you know, people came out of the woodwork. They knew that this was going to happen. They had the 1,000 people william was reporting to support the people inside the encampment. They brought in the plywood. They brought in the nail guns. They brought in the gas masks, all in preparation, making this Law Enforcement work even more difficult to take down this encampment. Jonathan yeah, this has been set up since last thursday. So, a week now. And a week in which they could fortify everything. They could decide how they needed to make it as difficult as possible for Law Enforcement. Ucla did not ask Law Enforcement to come onto the scene until. They are now trying to push and get in. They are pushing pretty effectively now. That barrier that barrier wont last that long as they move in here. Lawrence get eyes in. They cant go in this they know what they are working with. So they are trying to dismantle all of these bike racks connected to this plywood. Its a structure. William la jeunesse is on the scene. William, things have gotten crazier in the last five minutes. They definitely are. It looks like i see an arrest right in front of me. But here the police are now trying to remove the plywood, can i tell you some of those barriers are a pallet and then they have three quarter inch plywood attached to both sides but, yeah. Definitely police are now trying to make their entry at this point here. The crowd, can you see over on the opposite side. They are trying to get in as well. They have got a police line trying to hold them back william. They are pulling out some of the pallets. Im wondering, is there a risk for the cops being surrounded . I worry about their back end. Im sure they drill this all the time. But, if theyre out nourished and got the equipment. Could they be surrounded right now . William well, technically, we are surrounded. Right . So we are surrounded by buildings, and the buildings have a alley ways and each one of those alley ways is clogged with sim pa hide it e. Ers, other students so technically. We he are. On the back side of where i am right now, there is another police line to make sure, if you will, that that crowd, which now looks in several hundred, maybe 500 people, they got to keep them at bay. Okay, it looks like we have a special entry team coming on my back side right now. They are very heavily armed, officers trying to make an entry point here, and they are backed up by two lapd lines, they have got their tear gas ready. And their clubs. And their face masks are down. So, they are going to make an entry point there, and really, go ahead. Kayleigh there was a plan in place and plan was released by Law Enforcement sources because there are different Law Enforcement agencies all working together to get this whole thing sorted out. Los Angeles Police department will secure the perimeter, california Highway Patrol will enter the encampment and the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department will be responsible for crowd control. So, the protesters have had time to fortify, to get the gas masks, to to get those Flashing Lights to blind the Police Officers. Police officers also have a plan in place as well. William im sure they do. But things have been changing pretty dramatically in terms of what they have got to look at what is happening on the ground and where the soft point is now, they are going in literally. Brian they broke it. Here we go. William through the front door. Lawrence every time the police takes down a barrier there is another one, and they are finally making their way in right now. Steve it looks like there are either hundreds inside the encampment, william, or else they have just come up to get in the grill of the cops. William okay, they are bringing out riot ba tondz righ. Lawrence they are throwing stuff at the police. William trying to blind them with those lights. The line of individuals, the officers right in front of me, the chp and the lapd, they have now brung out their riot batons and putting their masks down. And looks like they are back up the point of the spear. Lawrence you hear them chanting hold the line. Brian we are going to find out shortly that these are probably not mostly students, these are people who are. [bangs] carley what was that noise, william . Steve flash bang . Lets bring in Jonathan Hunt moderating from our newsroom. Jo