UC Davis police attack peaceful demonstraters
 

Calls for Chancellor - who said the police were "defending themselves" from these students - to resign. Several students brought to hospital with chemical burns, one coughing up blood.



"Annette Spicuzza, UC Davis police chief, told the Sacramento Bee that police used the pepper spray after they were surrounded. Protesters were warned repeatedly beforehand that force would be used if they didn't move, she said.

"There was no way out of that circle," Spicuzza said. "They were cutting the officers off from their support. It's a very volatile situation."

In the below video, you can see the "trapped" police officer Spicuzza describes, simply stepping over the sitting students, to go to their faces, turn around, and spray them with pepper spray. I'll bet he was really scared, poor officer! Then other officers joined in with the spray.

These morons who love power keep forgetting that there is a new news media out there - everyone - who no longer allows them to lie with impunity when they break the law.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...v=6AdDLhPwpp4#!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1...n_1102728.html

Forbes Magazine op-ed contributor E.D. Cain, who is against Occupy protests, calls for end to repeated police violence against Occupy Wall Street protesters in NY.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain...eet-is-absurd/

http://www.davisenterprise.com/local...eam-on-campus/

The eight men and two women, all but one a student, taken away by police were arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct, for lodging without permission, and failure to disperse. They were cited for the misdemeanors and released.

The confrontation took place after UCD held off on enforcing a camping ban overnight Thursday. On Friday morning, a Student Affairs representative delivered a letter from Chancellor Linda Katehi asking the protesters to take down their tents by 3 p.m.

The bulk of the protesters chose not to budge.

Ugliness followed.

In a second letter, sent to the campus community on Friday night, Katehi wrote that protesters “(offered) us no option but to ask the police to assist in their removal.”



“We deeply regret that many of the protesters today chose not to work with our campus staff and police to remove the encampment as requested. We are even more saddened by the events that subsequently transpired to facilitate their removal,” she added.



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45368260...ying-students/


DAVIS, Calif. — A University of California, Davis professor is calling for the chancellor to step down, saying she is to blame for police pepper-spraying students during an Occupy protest on campus.

"You are responsible for it because this is what happens when UC Chancellors order police onto our campuses to disperse peaceful protesters through the use of force: students get hurt. Faculty get hurt," Nathan Brown, an assistant professor in the Department of English, wrote in an open letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi.

He said she was accountable for "the police brutality which occurred against students engaged in peaceful protest."





"On Friday morning, the protesters were provided with a letter explaining university policies and reminding them of the opportunities the university provides for expression. Driven by our concern for the safety and health of the students involved in the protest, as well as other students on our campus, I made the decision not to allow encampments on the Quad during the weekend, when the general campus facilities are locked and the university staff is not widely available to provide support."

And the lobbyists who own Congress are starting to be afraid ...
 

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win" - Ghandi

Smear campaign? That's what lobbyists do best :D

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/11...ugher-response

The lobbying firm is Clark, Lytle, Geduldig, Cranford http://www.clgcdc.com/clients whose clients include:

Koch Industries
Northern Trust Bank
Verizon
Bloomberg
Deloitte
Whirlpool
Univision
Encana Natural Gas
Beam
Fidelity Investments
AT & T
Allstate
General Motors
BlackBerry
Prudential Insurance
Swisher International
PWC
Loews Corp.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1...me?via=siderec

UC Davis Faculty call for immediate resignation of Chancellor
 

UC Davis Faculty Association is composed of 150 UC Davis faculty members:

Chancellor does perp walk past her silent students
 

Chancellor holds press conference today, interrupted by students outside chanting for her resignation. Then she pretended she couldn't leave, it was too dangerous to her (her students!) So the students ordered pizza, and sat outside chanting, "We won't hurt you".

She finally comes out, and students were sitting on the ground, arms linked, completely silent, exactly as they were when they were attacked by campus police. Chillingly awesome video!

http://boingboing.net/2011/11/19/one...-spraying.html

Congress, our militarized police, all one and the same dysfunctional craziness

Thanks for the list Riot. Now I know who I want to give extra business to. It is not a smear to show filthy dirty hippies in their natural state - it's more of a documentary.

Documentaries are by definition fair and unbiased, that's not what we are talking about here. Branding everyone who takes part in these demonstrations as "filthy, dirty hippies" is another example of blind obedience to the right wing b.s. that is vomited over and over here.
The examples of police brutality are becoming more and more common...I don't see how anyone can defend the actions shown on the videos here. We have folks in wheelchairs thrown face first to the concrete, 84 year old women pepper sprayed, and now this. Regardless of one's politics, I would think that the need for a set of rules governing handling of demonstrations nationwide would be something everyone could agree upon. Do we really want another Jackson State or Kent State???

At :14 second mark in the video, check out the wuss in the white hat on the far side of the screen get up and move. Protest? What Protest?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaPysXyndJ4 :D

Maybe that dude was dragged there by a girl and figured if he protested he would get some action out of it. Once the pepper spray came out, he smarted up real fast and realizes that no poon was worth that crap.

Settle down people!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYUHi...eature=related

ROR...the guy at :49 goes in for a dry hump.

you mean, kinda like not every cop is a bad one? yeah, we can't be painting everyone with the same brush, that would be bad.
unless you're painting the right group i guess.

F the police ;)

except the ones on law and order of course.

my father and some of the best people i've ever known were policemen in washington d.c.. it's a thankless job, underpaid, overworked, constantly being second-guessed by people who sit at home on their overstuffed couch, and judge people for their behavior-that they'll never encounter, or have to make split second decision about.
they have their bosses in one ear, the media in the other, the citizens on their asses. damned when they do, damned when they don't.
when they're in a situation, well, they shouldn't be there. but when someone else is in a situation, who are they screaming for? the cops...but they're never around when you need them, right?

my father was there for the vietnam protests, the farmers protests, the politicians drunk in limos with women who weren't their wives, drunks, crooks, the dregs of society trying to kill them...he'd been stabbed, shot at, assaulted, etc, etc


we all know the saying, walk a mile in their shoes..yeah, but who actually does that?
i watched my mother go thru 20 years of worry about my dad, working doubles, round the clock, dealing with all that. yeah, they all suck. :rolleyes:
fact is, they don't. i know it for a fact.
a friend of ours was a k-9 cop. he made the mistake one night of running after a guy down the alley, and leaving the dog in the car. the dog tore that car apart trying to get to him, because he got his ass beat-lost his four front teeth to a baseball bat. was off work for weeks after that.
yeah, i'm sure paul had that coming.

I have never attempted to paint all police officers with the same broad brush, in every group of people there are good and bad...demonstrators, police, clergy, every group. The problem here is that we have video evidence of brutality...unnecessary brutality! Of course the cops on the line are following orders and often that puts them in a difficult situation but "following orders" has never been accepted as an excuse for brutality, demonstrations are not new and while every situation is different, common sense screams out for basic humanity.

my hat is off to the honest cops in the land who have to deal with rapists, murderers, voilent drug dealers, etc. In my opinion, those cops are the real law enforcers.

My problem is with the ones who do not have integrity. And also the ones who hide behind a bush on the side of the road to trap speeders. I have a huge problem with cops who try to just get money out of and harass hard working citizens. I severly dislike the cops who let the power get to their heads. and I hate hate hate the patriot act, and how it takes away checks and balances from police (warrantless searches based on whatever "suspicion" they invent), because I do NOT trust them.

wasn't necessarily thinking of you with my post. hypocrisy abounds around here, and elsewhere.

sure, just like every cross section of life, you're going to have bad cops. just like you have bad teachers, lawyers, judges, etc. funny tho, i typically only see cop bashing on here, and incendiary thread titles, and a general sense that they're 'all bad' from some posters on here.

and yeah, we were in a bank today with a patriot act sign, which i scoffed at. it's a joke. but keep in mind cops didn't come up with that act, bush and his buddies did-- and the fbi-and my dad never cared for the fbi. he told me what fbi stood for, and it's not fed bureau of investigation!

I agree with everything you said....working as long as I did in the prison system and being directly involved with crowd control as a Military MP, I quite often found myself in scary situations where I feared for my own safety, all that is true BUT it doesn't apply in situations like the one that sparked this thread...calling the victims disgusting dirty hippies or implying they had it coming doesn't work when the visual evidence is front and center. Criminal behavior is criminal behavior whether committed by demonstrators or those in authority.

Zig is right though in that the police are just carrying out their orders from higher up. It's the people ordering the cops who should be arrested. Starting with the federal government.

Again, I agree. Walking in someone else's shoes is a practice we can all gain from. My problem is that these brutal episodes seem to be increasing lately, as well as support for them. Folks seem fine with defending folks like Westboro Baptist when they spread their poison but don't allow young or poor folks to express their frustrations. Yes, I know there are legal issues as well as public safety to consider but we didn't hear those concerns when the Tea Party demonstrated.

Again I agree...but as I said before, there is a limit to how far "following orders" works for me.

i think the problems involved aren't just from one part of the whole equation.

you have protesters ( and yeah, the hippy description is FAR from accurate) who admittedly are pushing the limits; even to the point of trespassing, etc. they absolutely will push as far as they can. perhaps even too far
they are told to move on, they don't. they're told to break camp, they don't.
you have the police, in some cases several different forces working together such as in oakland or on the campus a few days ago which causes a whole new set off issues (not everyone has the same training, guidelines, etc), with administrators saying the kids have to go, and go now.
then you have the chiefs of police, mayors, city councils, etc.
the police are given a job to do, the protestors have their own agenda, and of course city govt has theirs, property owners have theirs. a mix right for an explosion, or several.
and with this society as litigious as it is, i'd have to think the owners of the properties being squatted on are having a collective heart attack...how would you like all that liability hanging over your head?

yeah right.....are you freakin kiddin me.....like the Nazis were just following orders too. You have to be a real piece of shet to do that to a bunch of kids just sitting there. What kind of man does that to a woman ? Cops should be fired as well as the Chancellor

Well, if you're thinking of me, I certainly haven't said all cops are bad, either. In fact, I've said the opposite on here. The bad cops I've posted here, that are brutal? You bet, they are bad. They are not just "following orders" - they are not even following their training.

You really have your finger on the pulse of what's happening :D

So in this case, the cops went in, destroyed and removed their tents. The Chancellor said demonstrations on the quad are perfectly fine, it was the tents that had to go.

Then the cops told the chief they were "scared" and trapped by the kids still sitting there peacefully demonstrating.

So the one cop just stepped over those scary, threatening kids (exposing his crotch to them), turned around, showed off his pepper spray, then walked up and down spraying those kids.

And they didn't even arrest anyone. The cops then left. There is no way to paint these two cops as anything other than disgusting.

Berkeley was where "campus free speech" started in the 1960s. It used to be not allowed on any college campus to even talk about politics, if you believe that. Students are citizens, and they have rights, and yes, they have the right, as written in the California public university code, to peacefully demonstrate on college public property - their quad.

Do the cops have a right to tell them to move? Not really. Not any more than cops have a right to tell you that you cannot be on a public street. There are tens of Occupy locations, where they've been for 2 months, no problems at all between the cops and the protesters. It depends upon how far screwed up management is in those towns - or not.

The kids that broke down the fence and invaded private property? Of course they should all be arrested for damage to property, trespass, etc.

I didn't realize that this wasn't an "Occupy UC Davis" thing. The kids were protesting a doubling of their tuition.

No, they "are" Occupy UC Davis. All the Occupy's are protesting financial abuses. Davis raised tuition 9%, in private, with zero public feedback or input.

http://www.occupytogether.org/actions/

Nightly news reported tonight that two officers identified in the video along with chief of police have been placed on administrative leave, faculty at school are united in demanding resignation of school president/chancelor(sp).

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1...wn?via=siderec

Here is a page of what happened today at UC Davis, including multiple videos:

Katehi speaking to Occupy UC Davis General Assembly, apologizing

General Assembly meeting afterwards where faculty and students called for Katehi's resignation, and the disbanding of a campus police department.

It looks staged to me. Why aren't the cops worried about the people surrounding them? Why didn't it set everyone off? The guy at :14 is great! Officer "not so" friendly at :25 is even better. Why didn't the cops just drag them to the paddy wagon? Why does anyone want Obama's "more cops" bill? I wasn't going to comment. Good friend of mine stopped by last night, his Dad was an Investigator for the N.Y. State Police. This guy is almost as Liberal as I used to be. One of my few friends that follows racing. He said he wanted to go down to join OWS! I said they should all be in Washington. That was where all of our problems start. Lot's of Hippies where I live!

I cant resist! Thank GPK!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2ZwJ...eature=related

i see 3 policemen in that picture, along with how many others? they're outnumbered how many times over? yep, i dare folks who are pontificating to try it some time.

Oh come on....I'm outnumbered everytime I go to the track, lots of strangers rooting for other horses but I still root for mine without going for my pepper spray (lol). If the crowd was openly hostile you'd perhaps have a point but even then...been there done that without resorting to abuse. You are trained to ignore verbal abuse in those situations, remain calm and display authority without forcing the crowd's hand. If this was an angry, violent crowd, those officers would have been assaulted for what they did!

Protesters should decide what paths, streets, bridges and subways the public should use and when. However if their lawns should ever have weeds, 10 inches or taller, fine them the max, $1,200/day.

I'm starting to catch on to this whole occupy thing.

If you look at all the other videos (and there are many on the internet, covering the entire incident, not just excerpts like above), there are about 50 policemen there. There are about 30 within the "circle of kids" to the right of the picture, that were "trapped" by the kids sitting with their backs to them, and were "scared" of those "volatile" kids (the cops, btw, had just destroyed the tents, with the kids doing nothing but sit there with their backs to them in a circle while the cops destroyed their tents and property)

So they had to step over the kids, to get to their faces, so they could pepper spray them.

There was no threat. There was only ego-bruising on the part of the two idiots who sprayed the kids.

Kudos to those young people, for being the acme of peaceful protesting in the face of police abuse. MLK would be proud.

Yes he would! Except 40 some years later we still have criminals in uniform!

yep, they make the ones doing things right look bad. a few bad apples....

i think police depts need to take a long look at their training, and how often veteran cops go back for re-training. all other professions require that, i wonder if pd's do? my dad has been retired for years, so i don't know how that goes these days.

i also wonder if a lot of people just aren't taking these protests that seriously-they pale in comparison with others, and a lot of people just don't seem to even get what they're protesting. then of course these big city govts are no doubt beholden to the big businesses, just like congress is beholden to wall street.

Re-training should be mandatory at all levels of law enforcement, and psychological exams should be more than a formality....those looking to join law enforcement for power and those who project an overly macho mindset should be excluded.