Protesters defy police orders to leave Los Angeles university campus after violent clashes with rival groups

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters remained behind barricades on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus on Thursday, despite police orders to leave. Huge numbers of police began arriving on Wednesday afternoon, and empty buses were parked near UCLA to take away protesters who do not comply with the order. The tense stand-off came one night after violence instigated by counter-protesters erupted in the same place. A small city sprang up inside the barricaded encampment, full of hundreds of people and tents on the campus quad.