UCLA reassigns campus police chief after violence at pro-Palestinian encampment

The campus police chief at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been removed from his post after drawing intense criticism for how he responded to pro-Palestinian student protests last month — including a violent attack on an encampment that raged for hours before law enforcement officers intervened. "John Thomas has been reassigned temporarily, pending an examination of our security processes," Mary Osako, UCLA's vice chancellor for strategic communications, said in a statement Wednesday.