UCLA police chief John Thomas failed to deliver a security plan and underestimated response time during a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA.

UCLA police chief John Thomas was directed to create a security plan for protecting the UCLA community amid a pro-Palestinian encampment drawing agitators, but he allegedly didn't deliver, according to three sources. A miscalculation occurred when Thomas claimed he could mobilize officers "in minutes" before the mob attack, but it took three hours to bring in enough officers to quell the violence.