Arrests follow barricades and encampments as college students nationwide protest Gaza war [Video]

Police began peacefully arresting student protesters at the University of Southern California Wednesday evening, hours after police at a Texas university violently took dozens of demonstrators into custody in the latest clashes between law enforcement and those protesting the Israel-Hamas war on campuses nationwide.While tensions rose between police and student protesters at the University of Southern California earlier in the day, in the evening demonstrators started being detained without incident as helicopters buzzed overhead.Protesters had formed a circle with locked arms in the center of campus, in defiance of an earlier warning that they would be arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department. Police in riot gear, holding batons, surrounded the group before arresting individuals one by one.While some universities struggling to defuse unrest have quickly turned to law enforcement, the arrests in California were in sharp contrast to the chaos that ensued just hours earlier at the University of …