Yes! MORE police brutality! Only this time against unarmed peaceful students!

JCFantasy23 said:

Wow terrible. They first start hitting the woman in the stomach and you can see it surprises her. She may have said something rude but no one was making any movement toward the cops. It did seem they got too extreme.

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mpok1519 said:

Peaceful assembly does not equal a shillelagh to the pancreas. You're missing the part about peace, and violence.

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"The individuals who linked arms and actively resisted, that in itself is an act of violence," UC police Capt. Margo Bennett said. "I understand that many students may not think that, but linking arms in a human chain when ordered to step aside is not a nonviolent protest."

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“We, the UC Berkeley general assembly, hereby establish an encampment on the UC Berkeley campus in order to … help the university become what it always should have been: open and free to all,” according to a proposal adopted by the protesters. “We disagree with the idea that this university and this land are the property of the UC Regents, the vast majority of whom hail from the 1 percent.”

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UCPD responded to the general assembly’s decision to establish the encampment by confiscating tents and maintaining a barricade to prevent protesters from entering Sproul Hall.

After issuing a dispersal order around 3:30 p.m., police used batons against protesters who began moving into their barricade, resulting in seven arrests, as well as injuries to protesters’ arms, heads and stomachs. One protester was sent to the campus Tang Center.

Many protesters called the police’s violent tactics “excessive” and “unneccesarily forceful.”

“Any use of force against an encampment is illegitimate,” Armstrong said. “All the violence the police perpetrated is the responsibility of the administration.”

Harry Le Grande, campus vice chancellor for student affairs, said the police were acting to enforce the campus policy.

“I think we all know that they know that tents were not allowed,” said UCPD Police Chief Mitch Celaya. “The individuals on the front lines made a conscious decision to obstruct the officers from doing what they had to do.”

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When protesters failed to remove the encampment, police raided the movement for a second time at about 9:30 p.m., violently clashing with protesters who formed a wall around the remaining tents. As of press time, the day’s events had resulted in 39 arrests. The police issued another dispersal order after the second clash.

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Ishraqiyun said:

Violence : Noun: Behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.


So now the police are trying to redefine the word violence? "Not doing what I tell you" is apparently their new fascist meaning for the term. I'm not buying it. If a protestor took a baton away from a cop and started beating him with it that would be violence. If they initiated an attack and started kicking the police officers that would be violence too. Saying "we aren't leaving" and linking arms is NOT violence. People don't get to redefine words like that.

Fascist Cartman wannabe: " violence = not respecting my authoritah!".

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jameseb said:

A video does not the whole story tell. Obviously that hasn't stopped a few people here from drawing their own conclusions, undoubtedly steeped in their own biases.

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mpok1519 said:

these are the facts; kids were standing there. Cops began to beat them with nightsticks.

Its as clear as day.

What gives cops the right to beat people if they weren't moving disobeying an order? If I'm smoking pot, does that mean a cop gets to hit me with a nightstick if i keep smoking the pot even though I heard him say "DROP THE JOINT!" at gun point? I'm disobeying the law, does that mean a cop gets to punch me? Brutalize me? Potentially lethally harm me by causing internal bleeding?

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