Police used pepper spray against protesters at Thursday’s protest outside of Tolman Hall. UCPD Lt. Marc DeCoulode said during the course of an entrance attempt at the hall, a number of protesters tried to pin officers, and one protester grabbed a magazine clip off of an officer’s gun belt, leading two officers to use the spray.
He could not say exactly how many protesters were sprayed but estimated it was “a couple.”Michelle Ty, a UC Berkeley graduate student who was at the protest, said at least three protesters were pepper-sprayed. According to Ty, the spray was used in two instances not far from one another outside the hall. She estimated the sprayings occurred two to three minutes apart.
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A protester standing outside Tolman — who refused to give his name out of fear of criminal allegations if his name appeared in print — said he was pepper-sprayed and that many of the protesters in the crowd where the sprayings occurred felt the impact of the pepper mist even if officers did not spray them individually.
“It still burns,” he said, approximately three hours after the spraying occurred.
DeCoulode said the size of the crowd prevented police from taking any protesters into custody and that, to his knowledge, officers did not use any other forms of force beyond the pepper spray.
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Morning All. This is not the right for Police Men & Women too act at all these people are our friends you have too reson with them like my Father would say go do your stuff my mind is too product the inasent people not too pepper spry them or hit them or knock them it was unchaining too see a Police hit a woman. Please resin with them I respect all policemen & women all alike my Mother had sead. So be nice. Mimi
September 22nd Day of Action + Crazy Police Brutality @ UC Berkeley (HD):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzlq7S-MEOE
Wage concessions from Cal Chancellor Birgeneau and Cal Faculty STOP tuition increases!
today I am concerned
that at times I do not recognize the UC I love. Like so many Alumni, Corporate Donors,
Legislators, and Californians I am deeply disappointed by the pervasive
failures of UC senior management and Regents.
Californians are
reeling from 19% unemployment (includes those working part time, and those no
longer searching), mortgage defaults, loss of unemployment benefits. And those
who still have jobs are working longer for less. Chancellor/Faculty
wages must reflect California’s
ability to pay, not what others are paid.
However we also
understand that there need to be reasonable limits that reflect economic
realities. UC Berkeley (Cal)
planned pay raises for generously paid Faculty is arrogance.
UC Berkeley (ranked #
70 Forbes) tuition increases exceed national average rate of increase.
Chancellor Birgeneau’s leadership molds Cal
into the most expensive public university in the USA.
Can we do better with a spirit of shared sacrifices by
UC Faculty, Provosts, and Chancellors?
(17,000 earn more than
$100,000)
No furloughs.
18 percent decrease
UCOP salaries, $50 million budget cut.
18 percent prune chancellors’ salaries.
15 percent trim tenured faculty salaries,
increase teaching.
10 percent non-tenured faculty pay decrease,
increase research, teaching.
100% elimination
of Academic Senate, Academic Council budgets.
There is no
question the necessary realignments with economic reality are painful.
UC Board of Regents Chair Sherry
Lansing can bridge the public trust gap with reassurances salaries reflect
depressed California
wages. With UC’s shared financial sacrifices, the sky above
UC will not fall.
Yours is the
opinion that can make the difference, email UC Board of Regents [email protected]
What’s a “magazine clip”? Was it a magazine? Or was it a clip? They’re 2 completely different things.
We are becoming a police state, and no one seems to even notice or care. I feel bad for the people who are just being born now.
Then don’t fuck around, and you won’t have a problem.
Exactly! I hate it when people fuck around! Like, for example, our weekend?! What the f*** is that all about? Minimum wage? I hate that shit. Child labor laws?! F*** that! Equal rights for blacks?! Gross! I wish we didn’t fuck around!
Dear Guest,
You are a F****** idiot. Please read ANYTHING.
The minimum wage has been dismissed as a bad idea by the vast majority of liberal scholars in relevant disciplines to0–economics and history, for example, sorry if women’s studies didn’t make the list of people we should take seriously on this matter. The absence of child labor is a function of a country’s wealth, not a piece of flattened bark some guy marked with a fountain pen on some hallowed ground. Oh, and if by “your weekend” you’re whining that the five day work week has seen a decline recently…you are completely insane. Nearly all the conditions you’re describing aren’t sustained by legislative action, they’re determined by the state of the economy. I know Berkeley students tend to be uncomfortable with anyone who’s not a bureaucrat solving any problem whatsoever, but no, you can’t actually sign peace and prosperity into existence by electing the right people. I suggest YOU go read something that wasn’t fed to you by people pushing very old statist ideas as revolutionary tactics to reform government.
Right. Obedience to the law is freedom. Arbeit macht frei.
Police state? Do try to opt for literacy or better yet, travel to the Islamic world if you wish to see what police states are really like…
[We are becoming a police state, and no one seems to even notice or care. I feel bad for the people who are just being born now.]
Those of us who had the experience of seeing places like East Germany during the cold war know what a real police state looks like. You really don’t have a clue, poor child…
I wish the police used rubber bullets.
Better yet, birdshot.
Better yet, real bullets.
I wish you’d say anything knowledgeable, or at least worth reading.
this article and the police statement is wrong. Is there a blog I can submit a video of the facts? I have it all on my iphone :D Guest below is right
You should upload it to Youtube and then email it to ThoseWhoUseIt –> [email protected]
(Their blog if you haven’t seen it before: http://thosewhouseit.wordpress.com/)
Spray ‘em all!
Fuck off troll.
You need to be sprayed as well.
Better yet, spay ‘em all!
Drop dead, Sprayguest.
As a student bystander, an officer dropped a magazine clip – this was a separate incident than the pepper spraying. The officers did not know the magazine had been dropped until long after the pepper spraying had stopped. Please revise this article to reflect accurate facts.