Videos of Unprovoked Assault by Police on UC Berkeley Students (11/9/2011)
The scene would be familiar to University of California graduates of a certain age: Protesters filled U.C. Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza, clashing with police who beat them back with nightsticks. In the end, campus police arrested 39 protesters after students twice tried to set up an occupation in the plaza. Following Oakland’s confrontations with protesters over the last two weeks, police on Berkeley’s campus are taking a hard line early on, and it did not go smoothly.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that police first clashed with protesters in the afternoon, arresting seven, and then again in the evening when they tried once more to set up their tents. The Daily Californian, the campus newspaper, reported 39 total arrests, seven in the afternoon clash and 32 in the much larger demonstration later. The clashes came as thousands of students and faculty filled the campus’s central Sproul Plaza as part of a “day of action” on University of California campuses statewide. The Daily Cal reports:
The various protests at UCs, CSUs and a community college involved several marches, demonstrations outside banks and the arrest of 11 UCLA students, according to The Daily Bruin. The largest protests were held at UC Berkeley and UC Irvine, each attracting more than 1,000 demonstrators.
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