Police Violence at UC Riverside Regents' Meeting

On January 19, 2012, the regents of the University of California had their quarterly meeting at UC Riverside. 400 students and workers demonstrated the Regents and demanded a reversal to the privatization of the university, tuition hikes, and budget cuts, and the increasing structural inequalities at the University of California. Demonstrators demanded that the regents, who were in a closed meeting, listen to them but they were met with violence from the police and deputy sheriff's department. Several students were jabbed with batons and paint ball pellets were fired into the crowd.

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News & Politics

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• Riverside UC Regents
• Public Education
• Occupy Wall Street
• Occupy Riverside

[diggitydogg76]

We are now in 2012, not 2011! Unless that was from a year ago and old news.

[alborz101]

@diggitydogg76 thanks, corrected it!

[scullweaver]

small note: not to be nitpicky, but you wrote "On January 19, 2011". it's now 2012.



[alborz101]

@scullweaver thank you, it is correct now.

[bozojo1]

We have the right to demonstrate...God damn it !

[hapch100]

I just called the uc Riverside police and told the operator they should be shameful about what happened, and she replied back I should be shameful aswell.

[leerogersucla]

according to their own words....you're the tool....are you gonna like be a millionaire someday or something? wish you b.o.b. so tyler would....nevermind

[utubenoob78]

Why they protesting this... Should be protesting California Dream Act......

CA Dream Act = Higher Tuition and More difficult getting into classes!!!

[ihaveacar]

@leerogersucla Running for their lives? Fucking tool.

[ArgieGamer]

@imtedkopple They were trying to put the barricade between them, not to hurl it.

[leerogersucla]

@ihaveacar yeah...the way everyone was screaming and running for their lives, great. are you a fucking narc?

[jse07]

protest is dumb

it means you have already accepted the system as it is

revolt instead and kill those nazi pigs and take back whats your's

or remain slaves for ev0r meh

[ihaveacar]

@leerogersucla Seemed to work pretty well to me you fucking hippie.

[leerogersucla]

that's ME at :50 carrying a skateboard and the partition with my friend, to put in front of seated peaceful protesters....does it look like i'm charging police? me and two of my friends were among those shot....can you hear how many went off? they were SO close. they kept shooting even when we were way far back. you can see how the police tried to initiate violence repeatedly. how in the world is shooting into a crowd going to de-escalate anything?