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But while Los Angeles police arrived at the scene at about 1.40am, officers did not immediately break up the two sets of protesters, and the clashes continued for at least an hour, the Los Angeles Times and CalMatters reported. Aerial footage showed people wielding sticks or poles to attack wooden boards that had been put up as a makeshift barricade to protect the encampment, some holding placards or umbrellas. The new bar is from Mark Robertson and Mike Sullivan who also owned Cantina 1910, the Mexican restaurant that previous was in the space. The duo also own SoFo Tap, located a block south of Meeting House on Argyle and Clark.
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UCLA students who witnessed the moments leading up to the attack on the encampment described a harrowing scene, which started before midnight. Footage showed mostly male counter-demonstrators, many of them masked and some apparently older than the students. “I saw women as young as 18 and 19 punched in the face by 25- or 30-year-old men,” Aiden Doyle, a member of the student encampment, said at a student press conference Wednesday. David N Myers, a UCLA professor of Jewish history who watched footage of the late-night violence, said some of the attackers appeared to be carrying Israeli flags and other pro-Israel symbols. “The limited and delayed campus law enforcement response at UCLA last night was unacceptable – and it demands answers,” the office of the California governor, Gavin Newsom, said in a statement.
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The clashes began shortly after Block, the UCLA chancellor, said the campus’s pro-Palestine encampment was “unlawful”, adding that students who remained in it would face disciplinary action. Simply text, email and share your Coco Link with your guests to pass along exclusive hotel deals and make $5 off every reservation through August 4th. The drinks selection includes rotating boozy slushies and nightly specials.
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While there are 10 TVs for sports and watch parties (the latter’s a big draw at LGBTQ bars), the owners installed games like shuffleboard to give the space an interactive quality. They see Meeting House as a complement to the existing LGBTQ-friendly spots in the neighborhood. We’re playing classic ‘80s jams and remixes of your favorite tunes from 2–6pm, every Saturday with our truly awesome $5 New Amsterdam Cocktails and $12 Mimosa Carafes on special 2-5pm and $5 Signature Margaritas all day and night. The police operation, which was largely over within a couple of hours, follows nearly two weeks of tensions, with pro-Palestinian protesters at the university ignoring an ultimatum on Monday to abandon their encampment or risk suspension. Administrators at the university said in a 12.40am statement that they had called in law enforcement officers to stem the violence.
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“This is stuff that only happens in movies,” Harris said he thought at the time, describing the experienced of masked counter-protesters marching through campus as surreal. Bavel is out to change your perception of the Middle Eastern restaurant from "dark and patterned" to light and airy – the pièce de résistance is the suspended plant system in the center of the space. Large parties of 9 to 14 can be seated in the main dining room (under those plants, no less), while groups of up to 22 guests can takeover the covered patio.
Fights between both groups ensued, with people grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and using sticks to beat one another, according to reports and video from the scene. People threw chairs and other objects and at one point a group piled on a person on the ground, kicking and beating them with sticks until others pulled them out of the scrum. A large group of counter-protesters wearing black with white masks made their way to the encampment and began striking students with planks of wood and pepper spray, Daniel Harris told the Guardian.
The UCPD chief, John Thomas, told the student newspaper that officers had come under attack while trying to help an injured person, so they left. Some of the security guards hired by the university also retreated and hid inside a building last night as counter-protesters attacked, the Daily Bruin reported. Thomas and a UCLA spokesperson did not immediately respond to requests for comment. In an editorial, UCLA’s student newspaper blamed the administration for failing to take action to prevent violence between pro-Palestinian demonstrators and counter-protesters. “Will someone have to die on our campus tonight for you to intervene, Gene Block? The Los Angeles Times reported that a group of security guards could be seen observing the clashes, but that they did not intervene.
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The Los Angeles Police Department did not respond to a request for comment on whether they had made any arrests after the attacks, referring all questions to UCLA’s campus police department, calling it “the lead agency” at the scene. Members of a student protest group told the Daily Bruin, a student newspaper, that “25 protesters within the pro-Palestine encampment were hospitalized overnight”. A University of California official estimated the number of injured as 15 people. Live video images showed police in riot gear marching on the campus in upper Manhattan, the focal point of the nationwide student protests. Officers used an armoured vehicle with a bridging mechanism to gain entry to the second floor of the building. There were signs over the weekend that violence at the site of UCLA’s pro-Palestinian encampment was escalating, with reports of pushes, shoving and punches thrown and a university spokesperson confirming “physical altercations among demonstrators”.
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There were customers at Cantina who bemoaned the lack of a margarita on the opening drink list. For those haters and any other customers, Meeting House offers a signature margarita on tap. Hutch, the neighboring restaurant, will provide the tavern with a bar bites menu. The second tenant to fill the former Cantina 1910 space opens today, as Meeting House Tavern — a new LGBTQ bar — launches in Andersonville. The bar will work in tandem with Hutch American Kitchen + Bar, which opened in January inside the same building at 5025 N. Meeting House occupies the front portion of the building and customers can roll Skee-Ball, throws darts, and play pool.
“Those involved in launching fireworks at other people, spraying chemicals and physically assaulting others will be found, arrested, and prosecuted, as well as anyone involved in any form of violence or lawlessness,” Bass wrote. “Counter protestors continue fighting in front of police line about 100ft away,” a CalMatters reporter tweeted shortly before 2am. With our Signature Margarita on tap, rotating draft cocktails and mules, you're bound to find something to wet your whistle. We've got twelve taps of rotating craft, local and domestic drafts as well as bottles and cans at our upstairs and downstairs bars! Get out of the house and in the (Meeting) House with classic, new and remixed house music at meetingHOUSE, Fridays 8pm–2am and Saturdays 6pm–2am. The president of the University of California system pledged on Wednesday that there would be an independent investigation of what had happened on UCLA’s campus.
“However one feels about the encampment, this attack on our students, faculty and community members was utterly unacceptable,” he said. Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, issued the following statement after a meeting with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and delegation of California mayors from the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Task Force on Homelessness to discuss solutions to addressing the growing affordable housing and homelessness crisis in California and across the country. The violence continued from 11pm until 3am, with security guards and law enforcement officials at the scene initially retreating or failing to intervene, multiple news outlets reported. On campus on Wednesday morning, a helicopter hovered overhead while groups of security guards and law enforcement stood around a sectioned-off area of campus filled with tents. Students slowed as they passed the barricades, taking in the scene.
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