silly Wrote:

joker8baller Wrote:

Spartacus Wrote:I'm sure we're going to have a huge difference of opinions regarding this matter.

But it sure looks like a senseless mob mentality (especially with all the cheering, laughing and "Fuck the Police" chants). I have no idea how else were the police going to act.

Fuck the Police chants were not tolerated by anyone there. The people that were chanting it were asked to stop as soon as they were located.

What about the "you can't leave unless you give us back the arrested people" chant, which was ironically mixed in with "we want the police to leave", and not to mention the "We'll give you one moment of peace chant" which is a bit ridiculous coming from so called "peaceful protesters".

Those were shut down pretty quickly as well.

See that's the thing PTK, you're taking it out of context. This has been a vastly peaceful protest on public ground that the students had a right to pay for. There was nothing illegal about them being there, I've slept on the quad, played football there and such. They had never taken any violent actions, and most of the protesters were there with their backpacks and such.

Again, we're moving past the issue. The issue is pepper spraying peaceful protesters when there was a clear way out of the circle. Before the pepper spray, there was a way of the police of getting out of the circle. The cops were dragging people out of the circle, but they decided to pepper spray then dragging them. If you look at Davis, and live here, you know that nothing we have is inclined to violence here.

They're going to arrest people for sitting on the quad but they don't take active steps in pursuing hate crimes that occurred? It's not something that's recent, it's something that's been going on for years. There's hundreds of things that the cops have been ignoring.

I agree most of the protesters are stupid, but they don't need to be pepper sprayed with military grade pepper spray, from a distance that violates the minimum requirements when there had been no acts of violence. This is actually a violation of the UCPD written policy.