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Riot police use pepper spray as dozens arrested at University of Texas pro-Gaza protest encampment

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Scores of heavily outfitted riot police descended on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin on Monday to clear out a protest encampment rallying against the Israel-Hamas war, the second time a large police presence has been called in response to students there in less than a week.

As of late Monday, campus, local, from an encampment gathering on the state university’s South Mall.

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