The #NYPost (lol) is reporting that the protestors at #UCLA took a "hand to hand combat class".
This "combat" class was intended to train students to deal with the police and—as the Post breathlessly reports—included violent actions like how to shield your face and body if someone is beating you and how not to get your legs knocked out from under you if they attempt to grab your legs.
That training may very well have saved people's lives yesterday when they were attacked by an armed mob (not the police this time: a DIFFERENT armed mob; good to see they're switching it up), but yeah, very violent.
@artemis literally everyone who is able and interested should take basic H2H combat training, even if only a single workshop.