UCLA professor who said LAPD must protect campus protesters backed defunding police

UCLA professor who said LAPD must protect campus protesters backed defunding police


Just before law enforcement moved to dismantle an anti-Israel encampment Thursday at UCLA, a professor at the California school took to criticizing officers for purportedly failing to protect student activists supporting Gaza.

But in 2020, as left-wing protesters swarmed cities in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, that same taxpayer-backed educator — Ananya Roy — publicly supported defunding the police.

The student demonstrations at UCLA, like others at campuses taking aim against the Jewish state, are under the national spotlight as Israel continues its war against the Hamas terrorist faction. Police in riot gear early Thursday made over 130 arrests at UCLA — which came days after violent clashes between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian protesters.

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Roy, founding director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on

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