To find masked mob members who attacked UCLA camp, police are using Jan. 6 tactics
LA TimesIt is shaping up to be perhaps the biggest case in the history of the UCLA Police Department: how to identify dozens of people who attacked a pro-Palestinian camp at the center of campus last week. “Technology has made the entire community into the eyes of law enforcement,” said retired Los Angeles police Capt. University police will work with the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office to identify and prosecute the assailants “to the fullest extent of the law,” he said. On Tuesday, UC President Michael V. Drake said 21st Century Policing Solutions will lead the independent investigation of the actions that led to violence on the UCLA campus last week. The UCLA Police Department has been directed to “invest whatever resources are needed to conduct a rapid and thorough investigation,” Block said in a statement.