UCLA students are cuffed with zip ties after trying to fend off SWAT teams with BEACH umbrellas in latest college campus uprising

Police brawled with protesters while smashing through barricades at UCLA’s Gaza encampment after hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave.

Video showed California Highway Patrol officers wearing face shields and protective vests going face-to-face with protesters clad with shields.

Officers ripped apart an umbrella one activist tried to use as a shield while the crowd chanted ‘peaceful protest.’

The mob of protesters resists the cops attempts to disperse them as they pull signs and shields from the group.

‘Leave the campus, this is a f*****g school. This is a f*****g school, what are you doing, this is a school, we f*****g learn. I got to learn about public health,’ one protester shouted. 

Police methodically ripped apart the encampment’s barricade of plywood, pallets, metal fences and trash dumpsters and made an opening toward dozens of tents of demonstrators

Police methodically ripped apart the encampment’s barricade of plywood, pallets, metal fences and trash dumpsters and made an opening toward dozens of tents of demonstrators. Police also began to pull down canopies and tents. Demonstrators held umbrellas like shields as they faced off with dozens of officers.

The police action occurred a night after the UCLA administration and campus police waited hours to stop the counterprotesters’ attack. The delay drew condemnation from Muslim students and California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

After issuing a dispersal order last night, police began detaining people who remained on campus in the early hours of this morning, tying their wrists with zip ties.

Officers spent hours threatening arrests, and shortly after a group of cops who had managed to get into the inner area of the encampment were forced out by protesters.

Dramatic footage from the ground and from a helicopter circling above shows the moment crowds swelled and converged on dozens of officers, appearing to push towards them in an effort to eject them from the area.

Shortly after, a line of cops filed out of the Janss Steps, an inner area of the encampment dubbed the ‘Liberated Zone’ by campaigners, with cheers from the crowd as they allowed officers to exit. Police are still present in the wider campus.

There had been reports that students were hoping to re-barricade after the police breached their defenses, but their defenses were quickly torn down.

LAPD officers who had been trying to hold a skirmish line dispersed earlier as they were pushed back by a wave of protesters, who far outnumbered police and were holding umbrellas and makeshift shields.

Soon after, hundreds of CHP officers were bussed to the campus as backup, cramming into a small walkway as they again attempted to breach the wall of people trying to prevent them from entering the encampment.

Hundreds of protesters, many brandishing umbrellas, shields and wearing helmets, continued to resist the police advance into the quad area on the west side of Royce Hall, attempting to push them back as they had done before.

But a huge stream of officers, armed with batons and equipped with riot gear, cleared away makeshift barricades made out of dumpsters and wooden boards as they marched on the camp.

As the confrontation began on the west of Royce Hall, another busload of officers was brought in and circled around the east side of the hall, escorting surrendering students away and starting to rip down fortifications.

Within minutes, police were able to tear down the perimeter barrier, launching flash bangs into the air. Protesters are reported to be using pepper or bear spray and fire extinguishers as they continue to resist law enforcement dispersal orders.