Video - Raw footage of UC Davis police being extra.
LATimes | U.C. Davis police pepper-sprayed numerous sitting protesters and arrested 10 of them as they cleared an Occupy Davis encampment Friday, an incident captured on video and visible on YouTube and other social media sites.
Police then left after ordering the remaining protesters to take down tents that had been put up Thursday, reported the Sacramento Bee newspaper.
The city of Davis has had an Occupy encampment for more than a month, but the movement this week moved to the UC campus, with a rally on Tuesday, students sleeping in a university building Wednesday, then tents erected on Thursday, the Bee reported.
University officials told the newspaper that protesters were told Friday morning to remove the tents, but not all did.
Friday afternoon, some 35 UC officers from Davis and other campuses arrived with protective gear, the newspaper quoted UC Davis Police Chief Annette Spicuzza as saying
Remaining protesters initially numbered about 50, but then swelled to some 200 during a confrontation with police, the newspaper quoted Spicuzza as saying.
Spicuzza told the newspaper that officers were forced to use pepper spray when students surrounded them. The students were informed repeatedly ahead of time that if they didn't move, force would be used, she said.
"There was no way out of that circle," Spicuzza told the Bee. "They were cutting the officers off from their support. It's a very volatile situation."
Police then left after ordering the remaining protesters to take down tents that had been put up Thursday, reported the Sacramento Bee newspaper.
The city of Davis has had an Occupy encampment for more than a month, but the movement this week moved to the UC campus, with a rally on Tuesday, students sleeping in a university building Wednesday, then tents erected on Thursday, the Bee reported.
University officials told the newspaper that protesters were told Friday morning to remove the tents, but not all did.
Friday afternoon, some 35 UC officers from Davis and other campuses arrived with protective gear, the newspaper quoted UC Davis Police Chief Annette Spicuzza as saying
Remaining protesters initially numbered about 50, but then swelled to some 200 during a confrontation with police, the newspaper quoted Spicuzza as saying.
Spicuzza told the newspaper that officers were forced to use pepper spray when students surrounded them. The students were informed repeatedly ahead of time that if they didn't move, force would be used, she said.
"There was no way out of that circle," Spicuzza told the Bee. "They were cutting the officers off from their support. It's a very volatile situation."
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We have been a nation that fights each other, and bloody too. Some say we went from barbarism to civilization. Known to be pushy, all over the globe. The positive is that we fought the Police also, not in abstract arming of the person but confrontation. What is not understood is that you force a mind that is used to: cop is always right; to, there are points where we can't allow personal of the State to cross. If we have to live in a watched society, then the Police must be reminded, immortals are delectation of social mind.
Actual fighting police would yield significant casualties commensurate with their thin and overstretched demographic.
Resisting arbitrary and illegal use of police force, and taking hits to produce the visual record of police misconduct appears to be about the full extent of actual fighting, from the back in the day footage of Bull Connor an'em - to the unselfconscious ass-clownery of these paramilitary goons wielding their 40mm grenade launchers, truncheons, and pepper sprays.
One time is painfully unprepared to be on the receiving end of near real-time panoptic surveillance...,
If you look at the video above, you will notice a lot of pepperball rifles being carried around by law enforcement. This is unusual because it does not require that many pepper ball rifles to disperse a crowd. I seen at least 7 of them in the first 2 minutes of the video:
Pepper Ball Carbine:
Weight: 5 lbs (2.27 kg) with air bottle
Maximum Effective Range: 60 feet (18.3 meters) aimed and 180 feet (54.9 meters)
area effect
Payload: 160 rounds
Cost: $450 (fully automatic versions cost $600)
Note: These are a real world weapons.
What I have been noticing lately is the high amount of heavy arms the police state has carried lately from AR-15 customized like a Call of Duty video game. They brought these things looking for a fight when there is no evidence these hippies were at all violent or prone to be violent...
I almost feel sorry for one-time, because when the backlash comes, it's not going to come in the form of an unwinnable stand-up fight with heavily armed goons, rather, it's going to come in the form of the nastiest possible insurgent attacks. I suspect a fair number of these "hippies" have access to chemical lab facilities and a vastly higher level of electronics and remote control knowhow than what was required to produce thousands of military casualties in Iraq.
These pepperball has a fps of around 300 which is good enough to take someone eye or teeth out even at 100 ft away. These cops were very close to this crowd with these weapons and these weapons were intended for prison riots, not in the civilian world.
Boston police officers attempting to contain a crowd of approximately
80,000 fans celebrating a Red Sox victory deployed less-lethal
munitions. A 21-year-old fan was struck in the eye by a pepperball round
reportedly intended for another individual, and died several hours
later. As a result of this tragic event, increased awareness has been
raised regarding this form of less-lethal munition.
That "use of force review" idiot campus police chief is fit'na take the fall for Selma 2011 excesses...,http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jKvf7nP1OnRlnopsb9mXt9MOb7KQ?docId=4fc70a7b680c40a0bac68efe25c00159
But...but...but...those kids were BREAKING THE LAW, weren't they?
They were disobedient! They deserved everything that came to them, and then some, right? Just like Hillary Adams!
What would have happened to these OXYGEN THEVES in Edo Japan? Huh? Where's your support for draconian measures now?
Of course, I think child abuse and police brutality are wrong. Judge Adams assaulted a defenseless child, and what happened at UC Davis was an assault on decency. But if you think beating a child for downloading music is okay, then it is totally inconsistent and hypocritical to think that pepper spraying protesters who were surrounding police was wrong. (I think both are wrong).
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