May 15, 2024 • 31 mins
Breaking News UC Irvine protest coverage. Corbin Carson live at the scene. Corbin spoke to a protester who shared why she was protesting. Tim describes the scene live. // Breaking News UC Irvine protest coverage. Law enforcement is now starting to push in and remove barricades. Audio from law enforcement expert, an analysis of the situation. // Breaking News UC Irvine protest coverage. More students and faculty are starting to show up. Law enforcement has started to push in and take down the encampment.// Breaking News UC Irvine protest coverage. UCI coverage has become national. The mayor of Irvine has tweeted in support of protesters.
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It's KFI AM six forty and you'relistening to the Conway Show on demand on
the iHeartRadio app. All the newsis happening in Irvine right now, which
is weird. I just got outof off a call this morning from with
a guy named Billy Adams who runsIrvine Accura, and all of a sudden,
all the news is coming out ofIrvine. So that's wild. It's
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wild. Irvine is the center ofeverybody's attention right now in southern California.
So we're looking at the protest.It's happening on almost every TV live Channel
two is there, Live, four, five, seven, eleven, and
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Corbyn Carson is there as well.We'll be talking to Corbyn Carson. Is
he with us now? Hey?Corbyn? You with us? Hey?
Hey, Tim? How's it goingCorbyn? Carson? Man, what a
hand you've been del today? Tellus what's going on in Irvine? Yeah?
You know what? The latest thingwe're just hearing in the last few
minutes, all classes have been canceledfor the remainder of the day. People
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are being asked to work remotely tomorrow. So this thing is certainly escalating.
We've been moved several times by awall of law enforcement. Like I said
during the Liveshot earlier, there areI mean at least one hundred from multiple
different agencies here. They have onriot gear, they are holding the baton,
So I guess obstensively lease non lethalis what I'm trying to say.
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And then I'm talking to one ofthe protesters here. She has a flag,
she's waving it. She's been outhere explaining why do you think and
it was Psycha, right, whydo you think this has ramped up today?
Well, it's over forty sorry,over forty thousand people have been killed,
a majority of them children and women. Every day people are getting killed
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by Israel, funded by USA.So this is outrageous. It's not stop
by the government. It's not stopping. So we are here to make sure
they stop. But they don't wantto. It's a peaceful protest going on
by students. But these people,like governments said, like the cops to
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to take the encampment out. Idon't know what they are trying to do,
Like how many kids have to die, like it's already been seven months.
They needs to have some sort ofhumanity if this wants to stay.
As at the United States of America. They should just, you know,
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give up and enough is enough,no more killing, right, thank you,
the United States of America. Justgive up. I don't understand what
that means, right, that's what'skind of cutting in there. I'm not
sure. There's a group of themhere, and some of them certainly don't
look well, you can't tell bythe age of people's students or not.
But there's a group outside the protestarea where they're now kicking us all out,
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and then there's a group inside.So I'm about maybe hundred feet away
from the main protests, but we'reall still surrounded by maybe a few dozen
law enforcement. There was just alittle skirmish just a little bit ago where
we were getting moved, you knowhow protesters move in like that line,
and they keep moving us further andfurther away, And one of the former
faculty got into it with them,you know, as she was saying she
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got pushed and once the video andthat sort of thing. But as you
mentioned, this could this could getinteresting as the night rolls on. Yeah,
it could be wild. All right, buddy, We'll keep checking in
with you. I appreciate you goingdown there, and we'll check in with
you as often as we can.Cool. Thanks man. All right,
Carvin Carson there live in Irvine,and it's being covered live on a lot
of newscasts, and of course we'recovering here. A lot of TV news
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are showing you the pictures, youknow, a lot of helicopters as you
can. As you heard from CorvinCarson live over the scene there in Irvine,
and it looks like the cops arenow taking a lot of the tents
and moving them, and then theprotesters are also moving tents around as well,
so there is movement. I don'tknow where they're going or what they're
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doing with these tents, but itlooks like they're setting them up now between
the police skirmish line and the protesters. And so again I'm not sure what
the ultimate goal is here, butit looks like a lot of students there
protesting, and as Corbyn said,it looks it seems like there's going to
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be some movement here. Shortly,the cops are crawling over these bushes that
are in the way right now toget to these kids. There's a lot
of kids also behind the cops,which is odd, but they have less
than lethal weapons with them. Ican see cops there from certainly from Irvine.
The Orange County Sheriff is there.Looks like Newport. I saw a
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car that had Newport on It lookslike Newport cops are there as well,
And so I don't know ultimately ifthey're going to be arrested, but the
tents are being now dis assembled andbrought towards the skirmish line and being placed
between the cops and the protesters.And it looks like the protesters taking all
those easy ups and laying them ontheir sides and put in between them and
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the cops. And I can't believehow many cops are there. Man,
it's got it's hundreds. There wasthat overhead shot of the of the parking
lot nearby, and it was agood hundred at least spaces, and they
were all full with police vehicles.And there's more coming in, you know.
They just showed a picture of theparking lot and it looks like there's
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another fifty or sixty, maybe evenone hundred more cops coming in. So
I don't know if they think they'reout numbered and they need more, but
man, they certainly have enough,I think to handle this protest. There
are as many cops or more inIrvine than there were Ucla and UCLA there
were hundreds and hundreds of protesters,maybe even a thousand, But it looks
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like all the protesters now gathering upin one small area, and there's a
big separation between the protesters and thelookie loose, you know, the people
that are just looking to see what'sgoing on, and the protesters with balls
are now getting close to the cops. The protesters who are thinking about their
future and an arrest record, they'restanding back and video taping all of this.
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The gardener there must be going crazy. Oh the garden you're right,
you know, Krozy Lands exactly,you and I, you know, trying
to keep our yards nice and thenhaving you know, eighty guys trample over
them, like these cops are takingthe palets and just throwing them into the
greenery. That's right, that's right. So it looks like the first line
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of defense is the Orange County Sheriff'sDepartment. Then after that it's the Irvine
cops that are behind them, andthen on the other side of them are
the cops from it looks like NewportBeach they're there as well, but they
are one way or another, they'regoing to clear out this camp. And
Crozier's right, they're taking those easyups, those tents, those ten by
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tens, they can buy it Walmartfor about eighty nine dollars, and they're
putting them between the protesters and thecops. There's still a Palestinian flag that's
flying from the second floor, andso I don't know if there's any kids
up there. Yeah, there arekids up there. So there are kids
up on the second floor. Nowthere's kids running, I guess to grab
more of the easy ups. Andyeah, they're grabbing more of the easy
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ups and putting them between the copsand the kids. And so I don't
know what the gold is there.I don't know if they think that you'll
stop them. Those those you know, eighty nine dollars easy ups are going
to prevent cops from walking in thatdirection. They're gonna have a They're going
to be disappointed with the outcome ofthat. But it's it's a big story
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in Irvine. I mean, I'veseen at least three people being taken away
a handcuff so far, at least. Yeah, like I should say,
yeah, it's it's and and itlooks like the tension is building. It
doesn't look like it's it's becoming,you know, easier and easier. This
is the first places Channel seven ABC, the Channel seven line. Well,
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from this line that was formed byprotesters, we saw a group of Santa
Ana police officers as well as youteam members move in and basically grab this
individual and pull them from the line. And I believe that's what's going to
be starting to take place with otherprotesters as well. That line of student
protesters remains strong. Sorry about that. It remains strong and remains put together.
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I don't know what this one individualdid, but all of a sudden,
you just saw law enforcement move in. I see a second individual now,
second and third individuals being pulled bylaw enforcements here. So I think
this is now what we're gonna startseeing one by one these protesters be pulled
apart, because I do see themlinked up hand in hand, arm in
arm. So they are being pulledapart and taken away from this line that
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starts or protects the encampment. Butas you can see, on the other
side of these protests, there's allthose canopies now forming a barrier and shield
kind of blocking the Physical Science Lecturehall here at UCI. That's the building
that protesters barricaded themselves in earlier todayand triggered this master response. But so
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far we've seen at least three orthree protesters being okay Crozier's ride. Three
protesters arrested. The Palestinian flag isstill flying off the second story there,
and we are going to continue onthis story. There's an interesting on the
outside of that building there where yousee people on the second floor. There's
an outside stairwell, yes, thatgoes up there, and they've got the
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bottom of that blocked off with barricadesand coolers and stuff, and they also
have the top of it blocked offwith like trash cans and stuff too,
And it looks like they're giving thekids even one more chance to get out
of there and not be arrested.And let's see if the kids are going
to take that opportunity. Doesn't looklike it. Doesn't look like it.
We're live covering the big story here. It's in Irvine in Orange County,
the major story in southern California.You're listening to Tim Conway j Demand from
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KFI AM six forty. The campusover there you see Irvine cops are moving
in Irvine cops. Orange County sheriff. I saw a Newport there looks like
a Coasta Mesa car. So CoastaMesa cops might be involved, Santa Anna.
Who else did you see their crowsthat you said? Did you say
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coast coast to Mesa? Yen,Santa Anna, man Newport. Take a
lot of resources there. Yeah,if you live in Orange County and you're
complaining about your taxes, uh,this is where the bunny's going. A
lot of cops, a lot ofcops, and the people live in Orange
County, huge supporters, the gangUnit. You know, this is funny
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to me to see all those guysthat said a lot of police. It's
a lot. It's four cops forevery every protest. The sea of blue
and green, and look at thethe guy with Channel eleven has balls.
He's on the second floor with theprotesters. Yeah, you might arrest him
because everybody in that building is goingto jail. And I don't think the
cops care if you're pressed or not. If you're behind that line, you
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might be going as well. Sothey're dismantling. Krozer was talking about this
earlier the keen eye of crows,long eye, longtime newsman here at kfive.
There's a second there's a store outdoorstairwell that goes to the second floor,
and there's kids on the top ofthat. Now they're all running,
they're all running. Yeah, nowit's time to and then the camera van's
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coming towards the cop. That's timeto get those nikes rolling. But they
the cops are coming up those stairsand one of the first things I think
they're going to do is take downthat Palestinian flag. And I don't know
if they can replace it with anotherone or just take it down. But
this is going to be a bigdeal. This is the first big,
you know, action by cops inOrange County that I can remember when it
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comes to these protests. I can'tremember any of these campuses getting this hot.
Now there's a rope, Yeah,some weird stringing. It was like,
what was the point of that?How are the cops going to get
past that kite string? Oh?They cut it, Oh they cut it.
They got through. They were thinking, ay, and they think everything
I guess. So, uh,if you watch it, if you're watching
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Channel eleven, somebody from Channel elevengot up to the second floor there and
is in front of the cops.Yes, the cops are coming in.
Yeah. Yeah, And now thecops might arrest that guy even though he's
showing him a press pass. Hemight also be taken in and they are,
they're taking him. That's the that'sthe the fox guy. Oh,
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they moved him aside, And nowthey're trying to get into this building.
A couple guys that look like theywere trying to at least say they were
pressed. Yeah, two or three. I don't think the cops care right
now. If they told even youin the press to get out of that
building and you didn't get out,I think they'd take you with them.
There was a there was a coupleof double doors that led somewhere inside of
that building up at the top there, and they somebody had like tied like
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major like robe string or whatever hadtied the door the doorknobs together, the
lever doorknobs. I should say,yeah, And it's like what again,
what do you think this is stopping? Because a knife is going to go
through right that real quick? Yeah. They I don't know. I guess
it's the last ditch effort, youknow, to try to keep the cops
out. We put a string acrossand hopefully you know the cops can't figure
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out how to get past that string. But they did. And uh,
and now they're arresting a lot ofthe kids or moving in h I got
here on channel eleven. They they'rehere live. If I can pull this
up here real quick, let mesee this live audio. What's happening in
nerve? I don't want to documentyour being inside there, because you understand
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this, people live, Okay,So this is justin interacting with the law
enforcement. We appreciate his hard workout there trying to give us just looks
like that is the UC police that'sright in front. They're the ones who
technically have jurisdiction over all, AlexMichael trying to push back. That's what
the police are, the ones thatthe other looks like a respectful conversation here
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and some thumbs up and try tocontrol and show you what's happening here.
Just can't bring you heard you heardjustin say. We're trying to see if
there are people inside. That's thebig question to me, Alex. As
you saw there the hundreds of pigsbehind the barricade, wrapped course, Yeah,
quite a same action. I meanwhen we first came on the air,
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uh, you know, forty fiveminutes ago, there wasn't that big
a crowd there. It seems likethat crowd has started to gather as more
and more people, you know,hear about what's happening here, see this
on the news, see the stuffon social media, probably text their friends
and and that is becoming a biggercrowd, which is also challenging for law
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ground as well. Well. Letme ask Tim Limb will bring you into
a police expert crowd like that,does that tell you that the area has
been secured where law enforcement wants togo? These are too kind of on
the out. Take it away,Tim, what's going on. Law enforcement
is doing their major work. Yeah, it all depends on what they're objective
is right at this point, andit looks like they're objective is to clear
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out that science building and then they'lldeal with the rest of the folks that
are staying back behind their bone theirself made barricades. So as you see,
they're working really close to the mediabasically getting justin out of the way
so he doesn't get caught in thestampede that may come out of there or
the officers coming in. And allthese officers you're noticing are wearing body worn
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cameras. So the whole thing abouthaving a camera around being the big we
don't want cameras around that doesn't playanymore in twenty twenty four. Everybody has
cameras nowadays, the police officers havecameras. So right now I wouldn't doubt
if they'll let Justin slide in behindthem, because they've put him in a
position where he's out of the way, not in the operation, and now
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they're going to start working their wayin. They've also more likely are working
to reach the building from the otherAre the kids in that building looking?
They were from something on the otherside, But you know, if they
had left taking the lead on thisback then they went in there. Somebody
from the outside walked them. Yeah, yeah, I think you're right.
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The door knobs together. Oh man, how the cops going to get in
there? There's the other side ofthe outdoor stairwell, but there's a zip
tie there. Now the cops arefreaking. Oh, they got through,
They got through. They got throughthe building. There's a string at the
bottom of the stairs. Another stringhas been put. Oh they got through
that. These cops are good.Want to stand the ground there and be
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arrested, but who knows the stringdidn't take them out? No, no,
Now there's a chair that's propped upagainst the door. How are they
going to get into this? Ohthey got they moved the chair, they
picked it up. Now they gota lot of a lot of guys thinking
that, like guys and cows andthe pet thinking down there, because look
at the the body language, Elexindeed, so the question is what is
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which means that the listeners indeed,indeed, all right, we got to
take a break here. All theaction is happening pretty fast, and we're
going to take a small break andcome back and talk to you and tell
you what's going on live. Butyou see your vine. You're listening to
Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFIAM six forty. All right, let's
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get right back into these protests here. It looks like if people are starting
to be arrested in big numbers.So she said that they arrested her for
a peaceful protest. But we understandtoo, like we've been saying, Alex
and Christine that some of these doyou see Irvine over a building today?
And that's when police were called in. And it also sounds like they went
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from a fifty or sixty person aday protest for the last couple of weeks
to all of a sudden, acouple of lots of kids out there,
lots of cops was taken over yelling. In the time that we've been on
the air, the number of peoplethat have begun to gather outside of this
building has gone up dramatically as lawenforcement has moved in there. It seemed
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to have only drawn people there eventhough they declaring an unlawful protest alte Okay,
this is a big deal. What'sgoing on in Nerveine right now.
There are a lot more students therenow than there were an hour ago,
and they're not leaving, and itlooks like a lot of them are going
to be subjected to being to arrest. They just dragged away a guy who
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was probably in his early fifties,mid fifties, and they were talking to
him on the way as he wasbeing escorted, and he said, I'm
with the students. He's a facultymember a UC Irvine, a faculty member,
and he's being arrested and he said, I'm being dragged away by the
by these humans. He says,I guess that's what they are referred to,
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the cops. And he says,we're just protesting peacefully. And then
the cops came in and started draggingus away. And now the there's more
and more and more students showing up. So it's happening at uc irvi'm it's
getting huge and this has potential ofgetting sideways down there a lot of kids.
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They're being asked to get off campus. They're being asked to go back
to their dorm, back to theirapartment and and leave campus. And they're
not doing it. And so thecops are moving slowly across campus and they're
giving these kids, you know,three four, five, six seven warnings
that if you don't leave, you'regoing to be arrested, and they're not
going anywhere. There's a lot ofkids with scarves on, a lot of
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gas masks, goggles and and uh, you know, water bottles, a
lot of coolers. There, alot of tents and this is a huge,
huge standoff. And it's not justthe students against the cops. There's
a lot of faculty members there aswell. We just saw one faculty member
being arrested. So this is abig deal going on in Irvine right now.
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It's the main story on all thenews babies. Let's go back to
Channel eleven. Here they're live andthey have a cameraman who is embedded in
the students in the protests, andI was surprised that he wasn't very objective
of that is to get people tomove out. It seems to have done
the opposite so far. But itis remarkable, Christine, to see not
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only students, but to see afaculty from uc or van Buisen in the
Nor westas he teaches there, whoare coming together to take up a cause
that we have seen students around thecountry be animated by thousands of students of
what happens in Gaza and Israel's policytowards everybody's yelling the folks there. For
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whatever reason, this issue, morethan what we're seeing in China or Iran
or North Korea or anywhere else,has become a rallying issue in terms of
human rights for folks that are onthese college campuses. And we're seeing that
around the country, including Ucervine,which is not traditionally thought of as a
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hotbed Christine of political activism. Butwe are seeing folks that clearly are animated
by this issue and that are tryingto have their say. They keep chancing
peaceful protests, and from what wehave seen, at least so far on
camera, this protest has been overwhelmingleast peaceful. Okay, it has been
overwhelming and peaceful as well, that'sexactly right. But they are also being
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asked to leave campus and they're notdoing that, and the cops are now
moving in and there are cops therefrom at least five or six different agencies.
There's Highway patrol there, Irvine cops, Orange County Sheriff Santa Anna Newport.
Now was a guy with a drapedin a Palestinian flag and he has
a rose with them, and he'strying to give these to the officer,
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one of the officers down there.They're not taking the bait, they're not
taking the rows. And now there'sprobably five hundred officers there staring at thousands
of students. There's a makeshift wallthere on one of the sides between the
students and the officers they've taken whiledown a lot of the tents, a
lot of the pop ups there anddismantle them. A lot of the cops
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are standing in the bushes right now, and it's a it's a standoff,
and and I don't know what thenext move is. I don't know if
they can if they're going to arrestall these kids, all these kids.
But now this kid that was carryingthe rose has just thrown the rows at
the cops. And I don't knowwhat the next move is here, but
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I imagine these kids are going tobe told, you know, again and
again and again to get off campusand it's an unlawful assembly and they're not
doing it, so they might besubjected to mass a lot of arrests here.
A lot of people have their facescovered. Maybe they don't want to
be seen, maybe they're you know, they they certainly don't want it to
arrest record. But this is goingon in a very very peaceful part of
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Orange County in Irvine. You don'tyou never see this in Orange County.
This is the first time that we'veseen anything like this in Orange County.
And and maybe you know, someof these kids came from UCLA or USC
and they saw what was going on. Maybe it was announced on social media,
what's happening in Irvine, and alot of them have driven down the
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four or five of the five freewayto uh TO again protests and and and
get national coverage. This is onnational news now. Another black eye for
southern California. And and and againwe're getting the Olympics here in three short
years or four short years, andwe don't have it together. You know,
we got protests happening all over theplace. You got these stories coming
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out all the time, homeless andhomeless fires. John Colbet was covering that
earlier here on KFI. You ofthe what mo' kelly described last night as
uncontrollable violence on the Metro. Andit's getting hot in southern California. And
I remember, all of this ishappening, All of this is happening when
the temperatures have not yet even reachedeighty degrees. We're still in the sixties
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to seventies. It goes down tothe high forties to the low fifties at
night, and so temperature has notplayed a part in this yet. And
thank god, because if it wasninety five degrees out today and this was
happening, it would blow up likea huge bowl of you know what,
it would be huge, and sothank god it's not one hundred degrees outside,
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and everybody is, you know,and physically cool. You know,
psychologically they're hot, but physically they'recool. And if they're psychologically hot and
physically hot, that's when it allerupts, that's when it goes crazy.
Are we're going to continue to followthis. It's on KFI, we are
covering this. We're watching it onUnfold on TV as well, two,
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four, five, seven, nineeleven. They're all down there live covering
this is the major story. It'san international story. And again we're the
focus of an international story right herein our backyard happening at U See your
Vine. You're listening to Tim ConwayJunior on demand from KFI AM six forty.
You see Irvine is the attention ofWow. I guess at least southern
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California, it might be the entirecountry. They're covering it live on all
the local TV stations here. It'salso on Fox, CNN, MSNBC.
The latest in these protests and beingyou know, and the cops trying to
come in and clear them out.And I've not seen this before with any
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of the protests. I've not seenit what I'm about to read you here,
I haven't seen it New York.I haven't seen it Los Angeles or
San Francisco, or Seattle or Georgiaor Atlanta or any of these Boston,
any of these areas where there's protests. I've never seen the mayor come out
against the cops like this just happenedin Irvine. But the mayor of Irvine,
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Farah and Kahn is her name atMayor of Irvine on X and here's
I think this is legitimate. Ithink this is you know, this is
on Twitter on X. It's ashame that peaceful free speech protests are always
responded to with violence. So she'sblaming the cops on this, on this
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event, and it continues. Takingspace on campus or in a building is
not a threat to anyone. USEI leadership must do everything they can to
avoid creating a violent scenario. Here. These are your students with zero weapons,
and so this sentence here, UCIleadership must do everything they can to
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avoid creating a violence. The mayorof Irvine is blaming the faculty in the
faculty, the administration, and thepeople run you see Irvine for what's going
on here with the cops and they'recalling it violence? It's wild. The
Orange Skointy Districtorney Todd Spitzer also justposted on X. I bet that's different
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from the mayor's post. He says, the right to peaceful assembly is a
constitutional right, and we encourage protestersto exercise their right to peaceful assembly.
However, criminal activity which transcends peacefulassembly, including violence and vandalism of any
kind, will not be tolerated.Any evidence of criminal activity, including failure
to obey lawful orders to disperse,will be investigated and thoroughly reviewed to determine
whether there is sufficient evidence to provebeyond a reasonable doubt that a crime was
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committed. Okay, so at oddswith the Mayor of Irvine here and again
I'll read that this is from theMayor of Irvine at Mayor of Irvine on
X. It's a shame that peacefulfree speech protests are always responded to with
violence. Taking space on campus orin a building is not a threat to
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anyone. UCI leadership must do everythingthey can to avoid creating a violent scenario
here. These are your students withzero weapons, and so it sounds like
the mayor of Irvine is on theside of the protesters, so you got
to handle the protesters. You know, this is the first time a mayor
has been on their side, andso there is some movement in their direction.
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You know, whether you like theprotests or not, whether you like
the cops or not, this isa move in a different direction. This
is the mayor of the city whereone of these protests is happening on the
side of the protesters. And I'venot seen that anywhere in the United States
anywhere. New York who has ayou know, liberal Democrat who's mayor Boston,
another Democrat who's mayor Atlanta, anotherone Los Angeles with UCLA and USC
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San Francisco, another one who's aDemocratic mayor. They've all been on the
side of the cops. This isa new this is a new movement.
UH. And this is a differentUH. This goes in it there's going
in a different direction where the mayorof the city where these cops are all,
you know, standing standoff here withthe students, and the mayor is
on the side of the protesters,clearly one hundred percent on the side of
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the protesters, saying it's a shamethat peaceful free speech protests are always responded
to with violence. So she's callingthe cops violent in in in Irvine,
and and so that's going to bea big story once this is all done,
and once everybody has you know,cooler heads, and an investigation goes
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on, because these things are alwaysinvestigated. One UCLA was investigated one at
USC same thing. And then oncethis thing is over, Uh, there's
gonna be a lot of people thatare going to be asking the mayor what's
going on. You know, theseare cops that work for the city of
Irvine and they need to be supportedby the officials in Irvine. And in
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this case, the highest level ofofficial in Irvine is the mayor of Irvine,
and she is one hundred percent withthe protesters and against the cops.
That is a new high or low, whatever way you see. It's a
it's a new level that I've notseen before. And so it's happening on
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all these stations. Let me goback here to Fox. They have some
pretty good coverage here Live in Gaza. They have a live cameraman in embedded
with the student. We've seen theprotest before for several weeks, but today
obviously a day that stands out inthe minds of Palestinians, the nineteen forty
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eight NAKBA. So another tweet justcoming out seconds ago from U See Irvine
saying that anyone currently in buildings inthe vicinity the protest advice to exit buildings
and leave the area at this time. Please disregard our previous orders to shelter
in place. If able, pleaseleave immediately and continue to avoid the protest
area until further notice. So,okay, all right, that was one
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of the tweets. Or I guessx's it's so hard to say an X.
You know, I'm reading what didhe X? I don't know what
X is. I don't know whatthat is. But here's from you See
Irvine at UC Irvine. It says, real quickly, protests has escalated near
Physical Science Quad. Avoid the area. If you're in the area, shelter
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in place. And then the updateis, don't shelter in place, get
the hell off campus if you can. All right, We're going to continue
to follow this big story in Irvine, and we're all over it right here
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It's KFI AM six forty and you'relistening to the Conway Show on demand on
the iHeartRadio app. All the newsis happening in Irvine right now, which
is weird. I just got outof off a call this morning from with
a guy named Billy Adams who runsIrvine Accura, and all of a sudden,
all the news is coming out ofIrvine. So that's wild. It's
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wild. Irvine is the center ofeverybody's attention right now in southern California.
So we're looking at the protest.It's happening on almost every TV live Channel
two is there, Live, four, five, seven, eleven, and
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Corbyn Carson is there as well.We'll be talking to Corbyn Carson. Is
he with us now? Hey?Corbyn? You with us? Hey?
Hey, Tim? How's it goingCorbyn? Carson? Man, what a
hand you've been del today? Tellus what's going on in Irvine? Yeah?
You know what? The latest thingwe're just hearing in the last few
minutes, all classes have been canceledfor the remainder of the day. People
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are being asked to work remotely tomorrow. So this thing is certainly escalating.
We've been moved several times by awall of law enforcement. Like I said
during the Liveshot earlier, there areI mean at least one hundred from multiple
different agencies here. They have onriot gear, they are holding the baton,
So I guess obstensively lease non lethalis what I'm trying to say.
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And then I'm talking to one ofthe protesters here. She has a flag,
she's waving it. She's been outhere explaining why do you think and
it was Psycha, right, whydo you think this has ramped up today?
Well, it's over forty sorry,over forty thousand people have been killed,
a majority of them children and women. Every day people are getting killed
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by Israel, funded by USA.So this is outrageous. It's not stop
by the government. It's not stopping. So we are here to make sure
they stop. But they don't wantto. It's a peaceful protest going on
by students. But these people,like governments said, like the cops to
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to take the encampment out. Idon't know what they are trying to do,
Like how many kids have to die, like it's already been seven months.
They needs to have some sort ofhumanity if this wants to stay.
As at the United States of America. They should just, you know,
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give up and enough is enough,no more killing, right, thank you,
the United States of America. Justgive up. I don't understand what
that means, right, that's what'skind of cutting in there. I'm not
sure. There's a group of themhere, and some of them certainly don't
look well, you can't tell bythe age of people's students or not.
But there's a group outside the protestarea where they're now kicking us all out,
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and then there's a group inside.So I'm about maybe hundred feet away
from the main protests, but we'reall still surrounded by maybe a few dozen
law enforcement. There was just alittle skirmish just a little bit ago where
we were getting moved, you knowhow protesters move in like that line,
and they keep moving us further andfurther away, And one of the former
faculty got into it with them,you know, as she was saying she
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got pushed and once the video andthat sort of thing. But as you
mentioned, this could this could getinteresting as the night rolls on. Yeah,
it could be wild. All right, buddy, We'll keep checking in
with you. I appreciate you goingdown there, and we'll check in with
you as often as we can.Cool. Thanks man. All right,
Carvin Carson there live in Irvine,and it's being covered live on a lot
of newscasts, and of course we'recovering here. A lot of TV news
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are showing you the pictures, youknow, a lot of helicopters as you
can. As you heard from CorvinCarson live over the scene there in Irvine,
and it looks like the cops arenow taking a lot of the tents
and moving them, and then theprotesters are also moving tents around as well,
so there is movement. I don'tknow where they're going or what they're
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doing with these tents, but itlooks like they're setting them up now between
the police skirmish line and the protesters. And so again I'm not sure what
the ultimate goal is here, butit looks like a lot of students there
protesting, and as Corbyn said,it looks it seems like there's going to
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be some movement here. Shortly,the cops are crawling over these bushes that
are in the way right now toget to these kids. There's a lot
of kids also behind the cops,which is odd, but they have less
than lethal weapons with them. Ican see cops there from certainly from Irvine.
The Orange County Sheriff is there.Looks like Newport. I saw a
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car that had Newport on It lookslike Newport cops are there as well,
And so I don't know ultimately ifthey're going to be arrested, but the
tents are being now dis assembled andbrought towards the skirmish line and being placed
between the cops and the protesters.And it looks like the protesters taking all
those easy ups and laying them ontheir sides and put in between them and
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the cops. And I can't believehow many cops are there. Man,
it's got it's hundreds. There wasthat overhead shot of the of the parking
lot nearby, and it was agood hundred at least spaces, and they
were all full with police vehicles.And there's more coming in, you know.
They just showed a picture of theparking lot and it looks like there's
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another fifty or sixty, maybe evenone hundred more cops coming in. So
I don't know if they think they'reout numbered and they need more, but
man, they certainly have enough,I think to handle this protest. There
are as many cops or more inIrvine than there were Ucla and UCLA there
were hundreds and hundreds of protesters,maybe even a thousand, But it looks
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like all the protesters now gathering upin one small area, and there's a
big separation between the protesters and thelookie loose, you know, the people
that are just looking to see what'sgoing on, and the protesters with balls
are now getting close to the cops. The protesters who are thinking about their
future and an arrest record, they'restanding back and video taping all of this.
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The gardener there must be going crazy. Oh the garden you're right,
you know, Krozy Lands exactly,you and I, you know, trying
to keep our yards nice and thenhaving you know, eighty guys trample over
them, like these cops are takingthe palets and just throwing them into the
greenery. That's right, that's right. So it looks like the first line
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of defense is the Orange County Sheriff'sDepartment. Then after that it's the Irvine
cops that are behind them, andthen on the other side of them are
the cops from it looks like NewportBeach they're there as well, but they
are one way or another, they'regoing to clear out this camp. And
Crozier's right, they're taking those easyups, those tents, those ten by
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tens, they can buy it Walmartfor about eighty nine dollars, and they're
putting them between the protesters and thecops. There's still a Palestinian flag that's
flying from the second floor, andso I don't know if there's any kids
up there. Yeah, there arekids up there. So there are kids
up on the second floor. Nowthere's kids running, I guess to grab
more of the easy ups. Andyeah, they're grabbing more of the easy
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ups and putting them between the copsand the kids. And so I don't
know what the gold is there.I don't know if they think that you'll
stop them. Those those you know, eighty nine dollars easy ups are going
to prevent cops from walking in thatdirection. They're gonna have a They're going
to be disappointed with the outcome ofthat. But it's it's a big story
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in Irvine. I mean, I'veseen at least three people being taken away
a handcuff so far, at least. Yeah, like I should say,
yeah, it's it's and and itlooks like the tension is building. It
doesn't look like it's it's becoming,you know, easier and easier. This
is the first places Channel seven ABC, the Channel seven line. Well,
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from this line that was formed byprotesters, we saw a group of Santa
Ana police officers as well as youteam members move in and basically grab this
individual and pull them from the line. And I believe that's what's going to
be starting to take place with otherprotesters as well. That line of student
protesters remains strong. Sorry about that. It remains strong and remains put together.
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I don't know what this one individualdid, but all of a sudden,
you just saw law enforcement move in. I see a second individual now,
second and third individuals being pulled bylaw enforcements here. So I think
this is now what we're gonna startseeing one by one these protesters be pulled
apart, because I do see themlinked up hand in hand, arm in
arm. So they are being pulledapart and taken away from this line that
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starts or protects the encampment. Butas you can see, on the other
side of these protests, there's allthose canopies now forming a barrier and shield
kind of blocking the Physical Science Lecturehall here at UCI. That's the building
that protesters barricaded themselves in earlier todayand triggered this master response. But so
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far we've seen at least three orthree protesters being okay Crozier's ride. Three
protesters arrested. The Palestinian flag isstill flying off the second story there,
and we are going to continue onthis story. There's an interesting on the
outside of that building there where yousee people on the second floor. There's
an outside stairwell, yes, thatgoes up there, and they've got the
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bottom of that blocked off with barricadesand coolers and stuff, and they also
have the top of it blocked offwith like trash cans and stuff too,
And it looks like they're giving thekids even one more chance to get out
of there and not be arrested.And let's see if the kids are going
to take that opportunity. Doesn't looklike it. Doesn't look like it.
We're live covering the big story here. It's in Irvine in Orange County,
the major story in southern California.You're listening to Tim Conway j Demand from
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KFI AM six forty. The campusover there you see Irvine cops are moving
in Irvine cops. Orange County sheriff. I saw a Newport there looks like
a Coasta Mesa car. So CoastaMesa cops might be involved, Santa Anna.
Who else did you see their crowsthat you said? Did you say
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coast coast to Mesa? Yen,Santa Anna, man Newport. Take a
lot of resources there. Yeah,if you live in Orange County and you're
complaining about your taxes, uh,this is where the bunny's going. A
lot of cops, a lot ofcops, and the people live in Orange
County, huge supporters, the gangUnit. You know, this is funny
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to me to see all those guysthat said a lot of police. It's
a lot. It's four cops forevery every protest. The sea of blue
and green, and look at thethe guy with Channel eleven has balls.
He's on the second floor with theprotesters. Yeah, you might arrest him
because everybody in that building is goingto jail. And I don't think the
cops care if you're pressed or not. If you're behind that line, you
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might be going as well. Sothey're dismantling. Krozer was talking about this
earlier the keen eye of crows,long eye, longtime newsman here at kfive.
There's a second there's a store outdoorstairwell that goes to the second floor,
and there's kids on the top ofthat. Now they're all running,
they're all running. Yeah, nowit's time to and then the camera van's
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coming towards the cop. That's timeto get those nikes rolling. But they
the cops are coming up those stairsand one of the first things I think
they're going to do is take downthat Palestinian flag. And I don't know
if they can replace it with anotherone or just take it down. But
this is going to be a bigdeal. This is the first big,
you know, action by cops inOrange County that I can remember when it
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comes to these protests. I can'tremember any of these campuses getting this hot.
Now there's a rope, Yeah,some weird stringing. It was like,
what was the point of that?How are the cops going to get
past that kite string? Oh?They cut it, Oh they cut it.
They got through. They were thinking, ay, and they think everything
I guess. So, uh,if you watch it, if you're watching
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Channel eleven, somebody from Channel elevengot up to the second floor there and
is in front of the cops.Yes, the cops are coming in.
Yeah. Yeah, And now thecops might arrest that guy even though he's
showing him a press pass. Hemight also be taken in and they are,
they're taking him. That's the that'sthe the fox guy. Oh,
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they moved him aside, And nowthey're trying to get into this building.
A couple guys that look like theywere trying to at least say they were
pressed. Yeah, two or three. I don't think the cops care right
now. If they told even youin the press to get out of that
building and you didn't get out,I think they'd take you with them.
There was a there was a coupleof double doors that led somewhere inside of
that building up at the top there, and they somebody had like tied like
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major like robe string or whatever hadtied the door the doorknobs together, the
lever doorknobs. I should say,yeah, And it's like what again,
what do you think this is stopping? Because a knife is going to go
through right that real quick? Yeah. They I don't know. I guess
it's the last ditch effort, youknow, to try to keep the cops
out. We put a string acrossand hopefully you know the cops can't figure
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out how to get past that string. But they did. And uh,
and now they're arresting a lot ofthe kids or moving in h I got
here on channel eleven. They they'rehere live. If I can pull this
up here real quick, let mesee this live audio. What's happening in
nerve? I don't want to documentyour being inside there, because you understand
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this, people live, Okay,So this is justin interacting with the law
enforcement. We appreciate his hard workout there trying to give us just looks
like that is the UC police that'sright in front. They're the ones who
technically have jurisdiction over all, AlexMichael trying to push back. That's what
the police are, the ones thatthe other looks like a respectful conversation here
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and some thumbs up and try tocontrol and show you what's happening here.
Just can't bring you heard you heardjustin say. We're trying to see if
there are people inside. That's thebig question to me, Alex. As
you saw there the hundreds of pigsbehind the barricade, wrapped course, Yeah,
quite a same action. I meanwhen we first came on the air,
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uh, you know, forty fiveminutes ago, there wasn't that big
a crowd there. It seems likethat crowd has started to gather as more
and more people, you know,hear about what's happening here, see this
on the news, see the stuffon social media, probably text their friends
and and that is becoming a biggercrowd, which is also challenging for law
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ground as well. Well. Letme ask Tim Limb will bring you into
a police expert crowd like that,does that tell you that the area has
been secured where law enforcement wants togo? These are too kind of on
the out. Take it away,Tim, what's going on. Law enforcement
is doing their major work. Yeah, it all depends on what they're objective
is right at this point, andit looks like they're objective is to clear
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out that science building and then they'lldeal with the rest of the folks that
are staying back behind their bone theirself made barricades. So as you see,
they're working really close to the mediabasically getting justin out of the way
so he doesn't get caught in thestampede that may come out of there or
the officers coming in. And allthese officers you're noticing are wearing body worn
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cameras. So the whole thing abouthaving a camera around being the big we
don't want cameras around that doesn't playanymore in twenty twenty four. Everybody has
cameras nowadays, the police officers havecameras. So right now I wouldn't doubt
if they'll let Justin slide in behindthem, because they've put him in a
position where he's out of the way, not in the operation, and now
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they're going to start working their wayin. They've also more likely are working
to reach the building from the otherAre the kids in that building looking?
They were from something on the otherside, But you know, if they
had left taking the lead on thisback then they went in there. Somebody
from the outside walked them. Yeah, yeah, I think you're right.
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The door knobs together. Oh man, how the cops going to get in
there? There's the other side ofthe outdoor stairwell, but there's a zip
tie there. Now the cops arefreaking. Oh, they got through,
They got through. They got throughthe building. There's a string at the
bottom of the stairs. Another stringhas been put. Oh they got through
that. These cops are good.Want to stand the ground there and be
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arrested, but who knows the stringdidn't take them out? No, no,
Now there's a chair that's propped upagainst the door. How are they
going to get into this? Ohthey got they moved the chair, they
picked it up. Now they gota lot of a lot of guys thinking
that, like guys and cows andthe pet thinking down there, because look
at the the body language, Elexindeed, so the question is what is
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which means that the listeners indeed,indeed, all right, we got to
take a break here. All theaction is happening pretty fast, and we're
going to take a small break andcome back and talk to you and tell
you what's going on live. Butyou see your vine. You're listening to
Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFIAM six forty. All right, let's
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get right back into these protests here. It looks like if people are starting
to be arrested in big numbers.So she said that they arrested her for
a peaceful protest. But we understandtoo, like we've been saying, Alex
and Christine that some of these doyou see Irvine over a building today?
And that's when police were called in. And it also sounds like they went
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from a fifty or sixty person aday protest for the last couple of weeks
to all of a sudden, acouple of lots of kids out there,
lots of cops was taken over yelling. In the time that we've been on
the air, the number of peoplethat have begun to gather outside of this
building has gone up dramatically as lawenforcement has moved in there. It seemed
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to have only drawn people there eventhough they declaring an unlawful protest alte Okay,
this is a big deal. What'sgoing on in Nerveine right now.
There are a lot more students therenow than there were an hour ago,
and they're not leaving, and itlooks like a lot of them are going
to be subjected to being to arrest. They just dragged away a guy who
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was probably in his early fifties,mid fifties, and they were talking to
him on the way as he wasbeing escorted, and he said, I'm
with the students. He's a facultymember a UC Irvine, a faculty member,
and he's being arrested and he said, I'm being dragged away by the
by these humans. He says,I guess that's what they are referred to,
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the cops. And he says,we're just protesting peacefully. And then
the cops came in and started draggingus away. And now the there's more
and more and more students showing up. So it's happening at uc irvi'm it's
getting huge and this has potential ofgetting sideways down there a lot of kids.
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They're being asked to get off campus. They're being asked to go back
to their dorm, back to theirapartment and and leave campus. And they're
not doing it. And so thecops are moving slowly across campus and they're
giving these kids, you know,three four, five, six seven warnings
that if you don't leave, you'regoing to be arrested, and they're not
going anywhere. There's a lot ofkids with scarves on, a lot of
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gas masks, goggles and and uh, you know, water bottles, a
lot of coolers. There, alot of tents and this is a huge,
huge standoff. And it's not justthe students against the cops. There's
a lot of faculty members there aswell. We just saw one faculty member
being arrested. So this is abig deal going on in Irvine right now.
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It's the main story on all thenews babies. Let's go back to
Channel eleven. Here they're live andthey have a cameraman who is embedded in
the students in the protests, andI was surprised that he wasn't very objective
of that is to get people tomove out. It seems to have done
the opposite so far. But itis remarkable, Christine, to see not
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only students, but to see afaculty from uc or van Buisen in the
Nor westas he teaches there, whoare coming together to take up a cause
that we have seen students around thecountry be animated by thousands of students of
what happens in Gaza and Israel's policytowards everybody's yelling the folks there. For
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whatever reason, this issue, morethan what we're seeing in China or Iran
or North Korea or anywhere else,has become a rallying issue in terms of
human rights for folks that are onthese college campuses. And we're seeing that
around the country, including Ucervine,which is not traditionally thought of as a
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hotbed Christine of political activism. Butwe are seeing folks that clearly are animated
by this issue and that are tryingto have their say. They keep chancing
peaceful protests, and from what wehave seen, at least so far on
camera, this protest has been overwhelmingleast peaceful. Okay, it has been
overwhelming and peaceful as well, that'sexactly right. But they are also being
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asked to leave campus and they're notdoing that, and the cops are now
moving in and there are cops therefrom at least five or six different agencies.
There's Highway patrol there, Irvine cops, Orange County Sheriff Santa Anna Newport.
Now was a guy with a drapedin a Palestinian flag and he has
a rose with them, and he'strying to give these to the officer,
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one of the officers down there.They're not taking the bait, they're not
taking the rows. And now there'sprobably five hundred officers there staring at thousands
of students. There's a makeshift wallthere on one of the sides between the
students and the officers they've taken whiledown a lot of the tents, a
lot of the pop ups there anddismantle them. A lot of the cops
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are standing in the bushes right now, and it's a it's a standoff,
and and I don't know what thenext move is. I don't know if
they can if they're going to arrestall these kids, all these kids.
But now this kid that was carryingthe rose has just thrown the rows at
the cops. And I don't knowwhat the next move is here, but
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I imagine these kids are going tobe told, you know, again and
again and again to get off campusand it's an unlawful assembly and they're not
doing it, so they might besubjected to mass a lot of arrests here.
A lot of people have their facescovered. Maybe they don't want to
be seen, maybe they're you know, they they certainly don't want it to
arrest record. But this is goingon in a very very peaceful part of
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Orange County in Irvine. You don'tyou never see this in Orange County.
This is the first time that we'veseen anything like this in Orange County.
And and maybe you know, someof these kids came from UCLA or USC
and they saw what was going on. Maybe it was announced on social media,
what's happening in Irvine, and alot of them have driven down the
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four or five of the five freewayto uh TO again protests and and and
get national coverage. This is onnational news now. Another black eye for
southern California. And and and againwe're getting the Olympics here in three short
years or four short years, andwe don't have it together. You know,
we got protests happening all over theplace. You got these stories coming
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out all the time, homeless andhomeless fires. John Colbet was covering that
earlier here on KFI. You ofthe what mo' kelly described last night as
uncontrollable violence on the Metro. Andit's getting hot in southern California. And
I remember, all of this ishappening, All of this is happening when
the temperatures have not yet even reachedeighty degrees. We're still in the sixties
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to seventies. It goes down tothe high forties to the low fifties at
night, and so temperature has notplayed a part in this yet. And
thank god, because if it wasninety five degrees out today and this was
happening, it would blow up likea huge bowl of you know what,
it would be huge, and sothank god it's not one hundred degrees outside,
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and everybody is, you know,and physically cool. You know,
psychologically they're hot, but physically they'recool. And if they're psychologically hot and
physically hot, that's when it allerupts, that's when it goes crazy.
Are we're going to continue to followthis. It's on KFI, we are
covering this. We're watching it onUnfold on TV as well, two,
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four, five, seven, nineeleven. They're all down there live covering
this is the major story. It'san international story. And again we're the
focus of an international story right herein our backyard happening at U See your
Vine. You're listening to Tim ConwayJunior on demand from KFI AM six forty.
You see Irvine is the attention ofWow. I guess at least southern
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California, it might be the entirecountry. They're covering it live on all
the local TV stations here. It'salso on Fox, CNN, MSNBC.
The latest in these protests and beingyou know, and the cops trying to
come in and clear them out.And I've not seen this before with any
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of the protests. I've not seenit what I'm about to read you here,
I haven't seen it New York.I haven't seen it Los Angeles or
San Francisco, or Seattle or Georgiaor Atlanta or any of these Boston,
any of these areas where there's protests. I've never seen the mayor come out
against the cops like this just happenedin Irvine. But the mayor of Irvine,
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Farah and Kahn is her name atMayor of Irvine on X and here's
I think this is legitimate. Ithink this is you know, this is
on Twitter on X. It's ashame that peaceful free speech protests are always
responded to with violence. So she'sblaming the cops on this, on this
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event, and it continues. Takingspace on campus or in a building is
not a threat to anyone. USEI leadership must do everything they can to
avoid creating a violent scenario. Here. These are your students with zero weapons,
and so this sentence here, UCIleadership must do everything they can to
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avoid creating a violence. The mayorof Irvine is blaming the faculty in the
faculty, the administration, and thepeople run you see Irvine for what's going
on here with the cops and they'recalling it violence? It's wild. The
Orange Skointy Districtorney Todd Spitzer also justposted on X. I bet that's different
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from the mayor's post. He says, the right to peaceful assembly is a
constitutional right, and we encourage protestersto exercise their right to peaceful assembly.
However, criminal activity which transcends peacefulassembly, including violence and vandalism of any
kind, will not be tolerated.Any evidence of criminal activity, including failure
to obey lawful orders to disperse,will be investigated and thoroughly reviewed to determine
whether there is sufficient evidence to provebeyond a reasonable doubt that a crime was
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committed. Okay, so at oddswith the Mayor of Irvine here and again
I'll read that this is from theMayor of Irvine at Mayor of Irvine on
X. It's a shame that peacefulfree speech protests are always responded to with
violence. Taking space on campus orin a building is not a threat to
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anyone. UCI leadership must do everythingthey can to avoid creating a violent scenario
here. These are your students withzero weapons, and so it sounds like
the mayor of Irvine is on theside of the protesters, so you got
to handle the protesters. You know, this is the first time a mayor
has been on their side, andso there is some movement in their direction.
(28:25):
You know, whether you like theprotests or not, whether you like
the cops or not, this isa move in a different direction. This
is the mayor of the city whereone of these protests is happening on the
side of the protesters. And I'venot seen that anywhere in the United States
anywhere. New York who has ayou know, liberal Democrat who's mayor Boston,
another Democrat who's mayor Atlanta, anotherone Los Angeles with UCLA and USC
(28:52):
San Francisco, another one who's aDemocratic mayor. They've all been on the
side of the cops. This isa new this is a new movement.
UH. And this is a differentUH. This goes in it there's going
in a different direction where the mayorof the city where these cops are all,
you know, standing standoff here withthe students, and the mayor is
on the side of the protesters,clearly one hundred percent on the side of
(29:17):
the protesters, saying it's a shamethat peaceful free speech protests are always responded
to with violence. So she's callingthe cops violent in in in Irvine,
and and so that's going to bea big story once this is all done,
and once everybody has you know,cooler heads, and an investigation goes
(29:37):
on, because these things are alwaysinvestigated. One UCLA was investigated one at
USC same thing. And then oncethis thing is over, Uh, there's
gonna be a lot of people thatare going to be asking the mayor what's
going on. You know, theseare cops that work for the city of
Irvine and they need to be supportedby the officials in Irvine. And in
(30:00):
this case, the highest level ofofficial in Irvine is the mayor of Irvine,
and she is one hundred percent withthe protesters and against the cops.
That is a new high or low, whatever way you see. It's a
it's a new level that I've notseen before. And so it's happening on
(30:23):
all these stations. Let me goback here to Fox. They have some
pretty good coverage here Live in Gaza. They have a live cameraman in embedded
with the student. We've seen theprotest before for several weeks, but today
obviously a day that stands out inthe minds of Palestinians, the nineteen forty
(30:45):
eight NAKBA. So another tweet justcoming out seconds ago from U See Irvine
saying that anyone currently in buildings inthe vicinity the protest advice to exit buildings
and leave the area at this time. Please disregard our previous orders to shelter
in place. If able, pleaseleave immediately and continue to avoid the protest
area until further notice. So,okay, all right, that was one
(31:08):
of the tweets. Or I guessx's it's so hard to say an X.
You know, I'm reading what didhe X? I don't know what
X is. I don't know whatthat is. But here's from you See
Irvine at UC Irvine. It says, real quickly, protests has escalated near
Physical Science Quad. Avoid the area. If you're in the area, shelter
(31:30):
in place. And then the updateis, don't shelter in place, get
the hell off campus if you can. All right, We're going to continue
to follow this big story in Irvine, and we're all over it right here
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