UC San Diego students and faculty staged a walkout Friday to protest what they described as a "violent" dismantling earlier this week of a Gaza Solidarity Encampment on campus. The walkout, organized in part by the Healthcare Workers for Palestine San Diego Chapter, saw more than 100 members of the UCSD community chant and march to Chancellor Pradeep Khosla's home off campus. Many wore keffiyehs or academic dress and carried signs calling on the university to sever financial ties with Israel. "All people of conscience have woken up to the fact that the apartheid state of Israel, with total U.S. backing, is committing genocide against the Palestinian people," said Leslie Meyer, a UCSD lecturer. "Our clear-eyed and courageous students, some with loved ones in Gaza where U.S. bombs are falling and famine is spreading, assembled to demand that their school end its complicity in this most serious of crimes." MORE: https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/ucsd-protests-continue-with-walkout/509-32761a58-d291-460e-adf2-82f82c055967