Chaffey College- Unprovoked Police Brutality and Arrests

On the Chaffey Community College campus, during one of our most peaceful days, the police arrest and brutalize Joey, James, and Jason after we all complied with school policy, during one of our most peaceful days of activism and free speech.

Partial transcript of difficult-to-hear audio:
-"He's choking him! He's choking him!"-Jason, as the camera is first pushed away from the door. You can hear him continuing to yell this for about a minute on both sides of the room, including the reception area.
-"I'm not resisting!"-James, after he is slammed down on the table, supposedly for resisting the officers.

The arrestees:
1st) Jason
2nd) James
3rd) Joey

The context:
-Listen to what Kortney, the camera person, is saying; she fills it all in.
-Toward the end of this video, you can see the main entrance is closed, because they locked down the entire building, closed all the blinds, blocking that side door window with paper, ALL DURING THEIR NORMAL HOURS OF OPERATION, with all three arresttees locked inside for between 20 minutes (Joey) to over an hour (James and Jason).
-These are the most talkative and brave members of our team, especially concerning injustice, even when under fire, as you can see at the beginning of the video. By the end of the video, you can see that they aren't saying anything. What did the police say/do to them to so drastically change their normal reactions?
-None of them were informed what they were being arrested, nor given prior warning to being arrested, but rather complying with everything the police asked of them (except surrendering our recording devices, one of which they stole and refused to give back).

The present situation:
-2 of the 3 arrestees are still in a detention center under felony charges. Joey, the one whom they stole the recording device from was brought up on lesser charges.
-When the normal police showed up, including San Bernardino Sheriffs and the Fontana police, both of which were informed of the assaults and offered to be shown the videos, talked with us a little, but then left without helping us. The campus police are free to continue doing as they please on the Chaffey College campus.

If any of you would like to contact the Chaffey Campus Police Department, or the administration, here is the information:
http://www.chaffey.edu
**Phone numbers:
*Campus Police: 909-652-6632
*Administration: 909/652-6161
*Public Relations: 909/652-6115
**The College Newspaper [#s and website]: (909) 652-6934 [Newsroom], (909) 477-8490 [Story Ideas], (909) 652-6934 [Editors and Staff]
http://www.chaffeybreeze.com/contact/
-Call, e-mail, or whatever else you can do to complain, comment, and question to any or all of these departments concerning this obstruction of justice, unprovoked brutality, and spontaneous arrests of peaceful, cooperative prolife activists/free speech advocates performed by the Chaffey College Campus Police on duty on Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 between 10am and 2:30pm in Rancho Cucamonga, California.


Here is the more detailed Survivors blog of this event:
http://survivors.la/blog/index.php?id=62

One of the reasons we don't have film before the arrests started was because of how sudden they were, and because many of the CLT team had just talked a student out of aborting her baby, and dialoging with other students (for example, the young man giving the oddly-timed commentary about this injustice next to the door while this was all happening is a Chaffey student who had been talking with us before this scene errupted) We'll keep you updated as this story progresses.

You don't see how much your rights in this country have really eroded away until you exercise them, and it is only by publicly exercising our rights that they remain secure.

Apologies for the poor quality for most of the video; our equipment for porting video cassettes to computers wasn't working. We'll upload an unabridged high-quality version as soon as we can.

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[xzmn61]

I read these guys won a $225,000 settlement. It was announced on 5-2-11. To that, I say GOOD!

[lawnsausages]

Mix the righteous indignation of young people with campus cops... hilarity ensues....

[greatxssassin1]

@agrassel49 You can't trespass a community college. It's a public school.

[agrassel49]

were the students trespassing? if so, then they were under arrest for it. when someone who has the authority to tell someone elso to leave their private property and they DONT....you get arrested. Dumb assed kids. when they finally get their law degree they will look back on this and say, "man, we were stupid..."

[glsblink]

These police either the most stupid or the most idiot. Over a small incident and go create a trouble for themselves. Way the go USA Police sound like 3 world class police. WEEE....... China need to rescue USA by invading lol. Thats what US A do lol

[mgs1234567890]

@Kanthor420 OF COURSE, OBEY AND NEVER QUESTION. JUST BECAUSE WE DONT BEND OVER BACKWARDS WHEN OUR RIGHTS ARE BEING VIOLATED DOESNT MEAN THAT WE'RE SPOILED OR THAT THE POLICE SHOULD HAVE TO POWER TO TAKE YOU INTO A PRIVATE ROOM AND BEAT YOU WITH A MINIATURE BASEBALL BAT.

[SacredAge]

Fucking Nazis!!

[Kanthor420]

You kids are mouthy spoiled little brats who promote nothing but ignorance. Just obey your peace officer and nothing happens to you. Funny how that works.

[dawnmarie0817]

a badge and testosterone are a dangerous combination

[fiona3637]

So the cops told them that they had to protest on a tiny little patch of land.....the kid asked why and was handcuffed as a result.....the situation escalated from their. The police obviously overreacted, and it was an abuse of power. I doubt the guys were injured but it DOES look like an abuse of power on the part of the police. Most think the abuse was because these were Pro-LIFE protestors; not real popular in CA....