Remember in the other thread where I said somethings deserve a violent response?
Sure, he might be able to sue down the road, if he can figure out who those masked people were, but he can't be made whole. He still didn't get to class. If they dothis longer ought, he could lose the whole semester. Even if UCLA let's him take the class again free, that is time he never gets back. These protesters have stolen time from that kid's finite life.
I know the CA legal system, and the UC system, will not allow it, but he should have been allowed to do what was needed to carry on with his life unimpeded.