Hundreds of other pro-Palestinian activists who assembled outside the tent city jeered police with shouts of "shame on you", some banging on drums and waving Palestinian flags, as officers marched onto the campus grounds.
Many wore the traditional Palestinian scarves called keffiyehs.
A much smaller group of demonstrators waving Israeli flags urged on the police to shut down the encampment, yelling, "Hey hey, ho-ho, the occupation has got to go".
Prior to moving in, police urged demonstrators in repeated loudspeaker announcements to clear the protest zone, occupying a plaza about the size of a football field between the landmark twin-tower auditorium Royce Hall and the main undergraduate library.
VIOLENT CLASH PRECEDES CRACKDOWN
UCLA had canceled classes for the day following a violent clash between the encampment's occupants and a group of masked counter-demonstrators who mounted a surprise assault late Tuesday night on the tent city.
The occupants of the outdoor protest camp, set up last week, had remained otherwise peaceful before the melee, in which both sides traded blows and doused each other with pepper spray.
Members of the pro-Palestinian group said fireworks were thrown at them and they were beaten with bats and sticks.
University officials blamed the disturbance on "instigators" and vowed an investigation.
The confrontation went on for two or three hours into early Wednesday morning before police restored order.
A spokesperson for California Governor Gavin Newsom later criticized the "limited and delayed campus law enforcement response" to the unrest as "unacceptable".
As the much-expanded police force entered the campus on Wednesday night to clear the encampment, some of the protesters were heard yelling at them, "Where were you yesterday?"
UCLA officials said the campus, which enrolls nearly 52,000 students, including undergraduates and graduate scholars, would remain shuttered except for limited operations on Thursday and Friday.
Wednesday night's police action came a day after police in New York City arrested pro-Palestinian activists who occupied a building at Columbia University and removed a tent city from the campus of the Ivy League school.
Police arrested a total of about 300 people at Columbia and City College of New York, Mayor Eric Adams said.
Many of those arrested were charged with trespassing and criminal mischief.
The clashes at UCLA and in New York were part of the biggest outpouring of US student activism since the anti-racism rallies and marches of 2020.
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