On May 15, 2024, a crackdown on a pro-Palestine encampment at University of California, Irvine resulted in an occupation of the UC Irvine Science Building by the protesters.
[1] UCI police put out a mutual aid call and received a response from at least 16 law enforcement agencies from around Orange County.
[2] Hundreds of officers responded and forty-seven protesters, including students, UCI employees and others were arrested.
[8][9] On September 18, Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer filed misdemeanor charges against ten protesters, which included four students and two faculty members: Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, an associate professor of global and international studies, and a lecturer in the school of humanities.
[10] A month later, Spitzer filed misdemeanor charges against 39 additional protestors.