Newsom's 'failure' to 'do anything' to stop university violence slammed by lawmakers

Hours aft officers successful riot cogwheel cleared an progressively vulnerable anti-Israel encampment astatine UCLA, apical California Republicans connected Thursday excoriated Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom for a deficiency of urgency and a nonaccomplishment to enactment decisively to extremity nan continued field unrest.

GOP lawmakers besides placed assemblage leaders connected notice, informing that legislators are already discussing pulling authorities grants from schools that let nan occupations to persist. 

"We should not beryllium giving Cal Grant money, authorities money, to students who are trampling connected different people's rights," Assemblyman James Gallagher told reporters. "They should suffer funding. And they did very small to protect students' rights. They should beryllium punished for their nonaccomplishment to act.

"We arsenic Republicans want accountability for this. No much words aliases nonaccomplishment to opportunity thing aliases do anything, for illustration we've seen retired of Gavin Newsom, but existent actions to clasp group accountable."

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Hundreds of students protestation extracurricular nan Palestine Solidarity Encampment connected nan field of UCLA successful Los Angeles Wednesday, May 1, 2024.  (Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)

Republicans successful nan authorities legislature are besides "calling for fund action" to clasp assemblage administrators accountable by "withholding portion of their fund if necessary," authorities Sen. Brian Jones said.

"And nan students that are recovered blameworthy of a crime, they suffer their Cal Grants," he said.

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Jones said students who "have thing to do pinch these protests and thing to do pinch these damages" will not beryllium astatine consequence of losing their grants if a measure gets drafted.

Police astatine UCLA were fixed support to clear a monolithic anti-Israel demonstration. (Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images)

Newsom's agency told Fox News Digital this week nan state's agency of emergency services would beryllium fresh to respond upon petition from field administrators but declined to remark erstwhile asked if National Guard troops would beryllium called in.

"Any needed authorities support would beryllium coordinated done nan Law Enforcement Mutual Aid System, which is utilized to support nationalist information during emergencies, including civilian unrest, and to supply assistance to section agencies during different different events aliases catastrophic disasters," a spokesperson for Newsom's agency said. 

"In these situations, Cal OES plays a coordinating domiciled to make judge section responders person nan support they person requested for their responses to incidents affecting their campuses."

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Republican lawmakers James Gallagher and Brian Jones dream to push authorities to ace down connected student rioters. (Etienne Laurent)

Early Thursday morning, constabulary officers successful riot cogwheel knocked down a plywood obstruction surrounding nan anti-Israel encampment astatine UCLA, entering nan area astatine astir 1:54 a.m. aft a lengthy and tense standoff pinch hundreds of agitators connected campus.

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Officers made astir 200 arrests, breaking up nan campy that had produced "several days of convulsive clashes," according to nan school's chancellor, Gene Block.

Fox News' Elizabeth Pritchett contributed to this report.