UC Davis Riot Police part 2

11/18/2011
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwFa5Kq4Rfo
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3A0d9fHWag

Police officers dressed in riot gear marched up in a horizontal line into the tent area pitched at Memorial Union at UC Davis. Officers initially arrested those who did not comply with their order to disperse and then used pepper spray on nonthreatening, completely peaceful students sitting on the walkway.

Occupy Davis: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Davis/200166466723441

Occupy UC Davis: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-UC-Davis/262907633759444

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• uc
• davis
• riot
• police
• pepper
• spray
• occupy
• brutality

[hectorgodinez]

The Police were not at wrong. The protestors refused to clear a public sidewalk even after being told and slightly pulled by the Police. The next action by almost ANY Law Enforcement Agency would have been OC Spray or CS Gas. Protestors were not performing a peaceful assembly. Protestors were blocking the public sidewalk. It the protestors would of been sitting on the grass protesting, the Police would not have been able to do anything to the students.

[jhweather]

@hectorgodinez The protesters were not blocking the walkway until the officers arrived. Rather, the tents were set up on the grass area and protesters made sure that the walkway was clear for pedestrians to walk on. When the police came, students moved the tents into a conglomerate so that they could protect the tents from seizure. The police would have come whether or not the walkway was blocked. It is not a sidewalk because it does not parallel a street or road.

[SickKnowledge82]

@jhweather The paved walkway is still considered a sidewalk despite it not being parallel to a roadway. Even if the tents were on the grass it doesn't matter, the entire UC campus is considered private property which is NOT within your "right to assemble". You cant just set up a shanty town on someone's personal property just because you want to yell some weak aimless chants out to the world. This is pointless and dumb, they should protest members of congress its not the school faculty's fault.

[outie131]

@tanzalone1 incorrect, yes it is a public university NOT public property. Just like McDonald's is open to the public, but is not public property. I never said it was a private institution- it is an institution and therefore gives them the right to have the protesters removed by police. They refused to disburse via presents of police, verbal warning (3 times) by police, then the use of pepper spray would be the next step. Refer to Force Continuum. maybe you should go back to school :) Duh!

[Errorhunterable]

this guy sounds like a 4 year old

[Errorhunterable]

meanwhile

[SickKnowledge82]

@tanzalone111 There are laws specifically created to enforce libraries, public facilities and yes SCHOOLS.. Crimes committed in these zones are considered more punishable and more offensive and guess what ever heard oh I dunno DISTURBING THE PEACE very generic and tailored for events like this.. Yes I did go to school and NO you have nothing to say on how corporations are run unless you're a significant share holder.. How old are you 3? Are you on the board at Davis or something? so stfu...

[SickKnowledge82]

@tanzalone111 If by "public" you mean Federally controlled land granted to a privatized institution in the education sector of business then your definition would be correct. The school is public to attend, you get 0 say on how the land is utilized and little to nothing to say about how the institution is run. If administration and government officials find your stupid huts and curb side megaphone mouth agenda disruptive or annoying they're perfectly within right to kick your asses off the land.

[KYKIN44]

Protesters in the future we will not have to worry about the police. Just look south into Mexico, a few drug runners has got all the police so scared down there they will not get out their police stationhouse. So in the future we put a little pressure on the police they will run like cowards that they are. Police has been cowards ever since they have been little boys. Because they are dressed up like Star Wars does not make those bastards brave they are cowards and always will be cowards.

[BeyondLame]

in other news

[tanzalone111]

The spraying cop was put on admin leave today pending dismissal. Now you guys think he was right?

[tanzalone111]

@SickKnowledge82 LOL like you ever attended any college courses. Your ignorance speaks volumes

[tanzalone111]

@SickKnowledge82 Wrong again geez LOOK IT UP. I did and posted the ordinance. I'm not going to do any more because people like you don't care about fcts anyway. Home depot is not a public university and actually you do have a say in how that corp is run did you go to school? How old are you 10? PUBLIC UNIVERSITY LAND IS PUBLIC NOT PRIVATE!!!!!!!!

[geo6892000]

why are there so many fat cops? is that why they are called pigs? lol

[atromos]

@SickKnowledge82 Thank you. You thought with your brain and not your ears!

[SickKnowledge82]

Sorry but I'd rather avoid shanty town mega phone babbling when I'm going to math and physics classes. Save the bullshit propaganda for the doorstep of congress NOBODY CARES and neither will anything change by resisting arrest on a campus sidewalk with a dumb message. Go stake-out the job sites of congress or someone high up in the chain of command not a bunch of beat cops and school faculty... LAAAAME.

[SickKnowledge82]

@yatahawal Ya we all pay taxes, make money and spend money places.. I spend money at Home Depot every weekend doesn't mean I have shit to say about how they run the company or business decisions they make and I for sure cant start setting up tents in Home Depot to sell my bullshit propaganda. The dean and other faculty found this incessant mega phone babbling to be disruptive to other students learning experience and as such they called the cops to remove the campus annoyance perfectly legit

[SickKnowledge82]

@tanzalone1 I did look it up you retarded ape. While the school is considered "public" to attend, the land that the university resides on is still federally granted meaning for all intensive purposes the land itself is and always will be controlled by the FEDS IE: privatized and as such if its not in the schools best interest to have ASS HATS blabbering and disrupting the educational society they have every right to call the cops to enforce their policies....

[OBmaster]

Its funny how they are protesting against the rich coorporations, get rid of them, and who is going to give them a job? No, Wait, they CAN'T get a job because they are too busy sitting around "protesting" instead of looking for a job.

[jjentzen]

@hectorgodinez I get it. The protesters were blocking a public sidewalk. But I have to ask the obvious question. Couldn't people walk on the grass to go around them? It's not like they were blocking a major thoroughfare. If they were blocking Main Street, then I would understand. This was plainly and simply an abuse of police power sending the message that we truly are NOT free to assemble peaceably, unless we get a permit first and only do it where we're told it's ok.

[82RoadDog]

Does anyone else wanna punch the idiot on the camera saying We'll be back, we'll be back? What an annoying turd

[yatahawal]

@SickKnowledge82 Private property? Whose property? The students pay taxes and tution money. They are "renting" the campus and have every right to it. If that is not written in the law, then the law itself is flawed. I hate how people act as if every single action is justified if it is a law. If there is a law that says murdering innocent people is permissible, does it make it ok? No! The founders of this country said themselves that the laws should constantly be revised and/or updated...

[tanzalone1]

However, some public property, even though it is open only for limited purposes, can take on the attributes of a public forum discussed above. A classic example of this type of property is public schools and universities. Although public school and university buildings are not wholly open to the public, some parts of a campus may be considered a public forum.

[tanzalone1]

@hectorgodinez I watched as a cop beat my son who was already in handcuffs and laying on the ground in the middle of a schizophrenic episode as he repeatedly beat him he kept yelling "where did you get th drugs!". I tried to stop him and tell him what was happening all he did was look at me all sweaty from beating my son and say "if you were a better parrent this would not be happening." You are a pig, and nothing more than the unwitting tool of the elite used to opress the poor.

[tanzalone1]

@SickKnowledge82 public schools and universities. are public land dipshit look it up