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When student Lauren Brown first heard the commotion, including firecrackers, she assumed the sounds were coming from nearby frat houses. Then, at around four in the morning, she heard helicopters. Later, she awoke to news and footage of a violent attack by pro-Israeli protesters on an encampment set up to oppose the ongoing war in Gaza.

It was hard to watch," said Brown, 19, a freshman at the University of California, Los Angeles, whose dorm was near the encampment. And I wondered where the police were. I saw posts from people talking about them being teargassed and maced and campus security was just watching."