Protests continue at university campuses across US – in pictures

After major police raids on universities in New York and Los Angeles, students continue to demonstrate against the war in Gaza

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Main image: Police face pro-Palestinian students after destroying part of the encampment barricade on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles. Photograph: Étienne Laurent/AFP/Getty Images

  • Law enforcement officers detain a protester at the University of California, Los Angeles during a pro-Palestinian protest
    Officers in riot gear detain a protester

  • Police make an arrest as they face-off with pro-Palestinian students after destroying part of the encampment barricade on the campus of UCLA
    A police office tries to grab a protester

  • Police make an arrest as they face-off with pro-Palestinian students
    Police make an arrest as they face-off with pro-Palestinian students

  • Police make another arrest at UCLA
    Police make another arrest at UCLA

  • California highway patrol officers try to clear an area near an encampment on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California
    California Highway Patrol officers face protesters.

  • Counter-protesters fight with pro-Palestinian demonstrators at an encampment set up on the campus of UCLA
    Counter protesters and protesters fight over a wooden crate.

  • Law enforcement officers take position before the pro-Palestinian protest encampment at UCLA on Wednesday night
    Rows of aw enforcement officers.

  • Pro-Palestinian demonstrators rebuild a barricade surrounding the encampment at UCLA as clashes erupt with counter-protesters
    Pro-Palestinian demonstrators standing in front of a makeshift barricade

  • Protesters help one another get their eyes rinsed, at an encampment on the UCLA campus
    A person has liquid poured over their eyes

  • Protesters are seen in the colonnade of Royce Hall inside the encampment set up by pro-Palestinian students and activists on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles
    Protesters are seen in the colonnade of Royce Hall

  • Supporters of the pro-Palestinian protesters sit on stairs leading to an encampment set up by students and activists as they demonstrate on the UCLA campus
    A man holds a Palestinian flag in front of people sitting on the ground

  • Protesters wait behind a barricade at an encampment set up by pro-Palestinian students and activists at UCLA
    Protesters wearing hard hats and goggles

  • Supporters of the pro-Palestinian protesters sit on stairs leading to an encampment at the UCLA campus
    Crowds of pro-Palestinian supporters

  • Pro-Palestinian demonstrators build makeshift shields in preparation for the possible clearing of an encampment by authorities on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles
    People work on converting plastic lids

  • Teachers protest outside Columbia University in New York City on Wednesday
    a person holds a sign with an image of a watermelon that reads 'free our students cops off campus'

  • A sign indicates a cancellation of classes at UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday
    an electronic sign reads 'classes canceled May 1'

  • Law enforcement personnel clash with demonstrators protesting against the war in Gaza as they work to remove a non-sanctioned encampment on the campus of UW-Madison in Madison, Wisconsin, on Wednesday
    Law enforcement personnel face protesters from behind shields

  • Police detain a protester at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on Wednesday
    police detain a protester on the ground

  • Demonstrators restore a protective barrier at an encampment at UCLA on Wednesday
    people building wooden barricade

  • Two MIT police officers speak with an organiser from the Scientist Against Genocide encampment after tents began to be erected for second liberated zone on campus. Students at MIT opened a second ‘liberated’ encampment zone on their 11th day since their disclose and divestment protest began in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Wednesday
    Two MIT police officers speak with an organiser

  • Pro-Palestinian protesters gather outside Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus after a group created an encampment inside the building in New York on Wednesday
    People gathered around a building with flags

  • Protesters and police face off at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on Wednesday
    Protesters and police face off

  • Protesters gather outside an encampment in Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus in New York on Wednesday
    lots of people with phones outside a glass wall

  • An encampment at UCLA on Wednesday
    a tented area in front of a building with two towers

  • Students and activists participate in a pro-Palestinian protest outside the Atlanta campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia on Wednesday
    people carrying signs below building labeled SCAD

  • Demonstrators clash at an encampment at UCLA
    Demonstrators clash at an encampment at UCLA

  • Students gather at the plaza encampment on the campus of George Washington University in Washington DC on Wednesday
    young people sitting on the grass with tents

  • People look out over enforced barriers from inside the ongoing encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters on the campus of UCLA
    People look out over enforced barriers with a sign saying: 'Free Gaza'
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