The UC Regents approved campus requests for more tools for UC police months after campus protesters clashed with law enforcement.

Minutes after a UC regents committee began debating the purchase of additional less-lethal weapons and ammunition this afternoon, pro-Palestinian students in the UCLA meeting room drowned them out. “Why did you shoot us?” one shouted — a reference to the less lethal rounds used at last spring’s campus unrest .

Clashes between protesters and counterprotesters earlier this year on the campus led to more than a dozen injuries, and more than 200 people were arrested at a demonstration the next day.

Police departments at UC’s Berkeley, Santa Cruz and San Francisco campuses also requested new drones. Berkeley also requested a new hazardous devices robot and, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, a “breaching tool” to break through doors and other barriers. Merced, meanwhile, plans to purchase five projectile launchers and 100 sponge rounds.

The New Braunfels Police Department utilized “less lethal weapons” to arrest a man who was seen with knives and damaging cars Tuesday morning.

Police departments across the University of California system are asking for more non-lethal weapons in a process officials call “routine,” but with memories of the handling of last