In this case, the students who disrupted the meeting were students who had been invited inside to talk to the Regents. There wasn’t any confrontation between them and any police inside, who also didn’t display riot gear. Instead, when these students brought down the meeting, the Regents left the room and reconvened in another part of the building.

Outside, other protesters tried to enter the building and cut off the Regents’ exits. There was a confrontation at the rear loading dock when students passed forward a grill barrier toward the police. The police used air-gun pellets of some kind to confiscate the barrier and stand their ground. Whether these police were justified in their actions is something that can be investigated. What’s clear is that this scene was very different in a lot of ways from what happened at UC Davis. Here the police were guarding university officials in a surrounded building.