LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥 U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday that federal officials are investigating a weekend demonstration against in Gaza that spiraled into violence outside a Los Angeles synagogue.

Fighting between pro-Palestinian demonstrators and counterprotesters erupted Sunday outside the Adas Torah synagogue in the heavily Jewish Pico-Robertson neighborhood and police were called in to break it up. One person was arrested.

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