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Failed · 11-19-2011, 04:40 AM

Cops beat, pepper spray, and arrest the peaceful protesting UC Davis students. But, in a show of strength, the students unite and surround the cops, chanting. The cops back down and look downright scared of the protesters. Then, the protesters give the cops permission to leave and they take it. An awesome video showing who truly holds the power.

Captain Kawaii · 11-19-2011, 05:01 AM

UC Pigs are basically rent a cop. Most can barely spell their name. If there were any hardcore types at Davis they could have overwhelmed and beat the shit out of those stupid worthless tools.

Failed · 11-19-2011, 05:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Captain Kawaii

UC Pigs are basically rent a cop. Most can barely spell their name. If there were any hardcore types at Davis they could have overwhelmed and beat the shit out of those stupid worthless tools.

From the articles I've read about the incident, it seems those weren't campus police, but police asked to come onto campus by the UC chancellors. Here's a link to an article that shows a letter written to the chancellor by one of the faculty demanding her resignation for ordering those cops onto campus: http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com...0#.Tsec9WMk6so

stocktrader23 · 11-19-2011, 05:32 AM

Posted on reddit in response to this video.

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When students covered their eyes with their clothing, police forced open their mouths and pepper-sprayed down their throats. Several of these students were hospitalized. Others are seriously injured. One of them, forty-five minutes after being pepper-sprayed down his throat, was still coughing up blood.

From this Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi by UCDavis assistant professor Nathan Brown: http://bicyclebarricade.wordpress.co...da-p-b-katehi/

stocktrader23 · 11-19-2011, 05:42 AM

Video just emerged of the Iraq war veteran that was beaten so bad by a cop in an occupy protest that his spleen ruptured.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/vide...n-police-video

AsianDivaGirlsWebDude · 11-19-2011, 05:47 AM

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A confrontation between police and Occupy protesters at UC Davis ended Friday afternoon with the arrest of 10 students after police officers used pepper spray to force protesters from an encampment in the campus quad, according to protest supporters and a campus police chief.

Police then left after ordering the remaining protesters to take down tents that had been put up Thursday.

Students said police used pepper spray on a group who sat on the ground and linked arms, blocking officers who were arresting other students.

"I saw one of my friends lifted in the air and thrown down," said Sophia Kamran, 21, a fourth-year student.

An Occupy Davis encampment has been in place in downtown Davis for more than a month, but students increased their involvement following an afternoon rally Tuesday. A couple of dozen students were allowed to sleep overnight in the university administration building. They were evicted from the building Wednesday afternoon and began camping in the quad Thursday.

Nick Perrone, a graduate student in history and recording secretary for UAW Local 2865, the union representing graduate student workers on campus, said the union was among those supporting the Occupy protesters.

Perrone said they were notified by Chancellor Linda Katehi on Friday morning that they were required to remove the tents by 3 p.m.

Karen Nikos, a UC Davis spokeswoman, said the campers were given written warning to remove the tents by 3 p.m. or police would remove them. She said many of the campers did take down their tents before police arrived.

Shortly before 4 p.m., about 35 officers from UC Davis and other UC campuses as well as the City of Davis responded to the protest, said Annette Spicuzza, UC Davis police chief. They were wearing protective gear and some held batons.

The protest initially involved about 50 students, Spicuzza said, but swelled to about 200 as the confrontation with police escalated.

She said officers were forced to use pepper spray when students surrounded them. They used a sweeping motion on the group, per procedure, to avoid injury, she said.

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 said. "They were cutting the officers off from their support. It's a very volatile situation."

Nikos said students who were arrested are accused of failure to disperse and lodging without permission of the owner, both misdemeanors.

They were cited by UC Davis police and released.

Perrone criticized police for what he characterized as a particularly aggressive stance in dealing with the protesters.

UC's governing board was never scheduled to vote on a tuition increase at its planned meeting Wednesday, though some groups planning protests distributed publicity material saying it was. Regents canceled the meeting scheduled in San Francisco, citing "credible intelligence" that planned protests could result in violence and vandalism.

The newly scheduled Nov. 28 meeting will take place at four campuses – in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Davis and Merced – that will be connected in a teleconference.

Check what this OWS UC Davis protestor writes:

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Tuition increases are the problem, not the solution.

In 2005 tuition was $6,312. Tuition is currently $13,218. What the Regents were supposed to be considering this week — before their meeting was cancelled due to student protest — was UC President Yudof’s plan to increase tuition by a further 81% over the next four years. On that plan, tuition would be over $23,000 by 2015-2016. If that plan goes forward, in ten years tuition would have risen from around $6,000 to around $23,000.

What happened?

The administration tells us that tuition increases are necessary because of cuts to state funding. According to this argument, cuts to state funding are the problem, and tuition increases are the solution. We have heard this argument from the administration and from others many times.

To argue against this administrative logic, I’m going to rely on the work of my colleague Bob Meister, a professor at UC Santa Cruz and the President of the UC Council of Faculty Associations. Professor Meister has written a series of important open letters to UC students, explaining why tuition increases are in fact the problem, not the solution to the budget crisis. What Meister explains is that the privatization of the university—the increasing reliance on tuition payments (your money) rather than state funding—is not a defensive measure on the part of the UC administration to make up for state cuts. Rather, it is an aggressive strategy of revenue growth: a way for the university to increase its revenue more than it would be able to through state funding.

This is the basic argument: privatization, through increased enrollments and constantly increasing tuition, is first and foremost an administrative strategy to bring in more revenue. It is not just a way to keep the university going during a time of state defunding. What is crucial to this argument is the way that different sources of funding can be used.

State funds are restricted funds. This means that a certain portion of those funds has to be used to fund the instructional budget of the university. The more money there is in the instructional budget, the more money is invested in student instruction, in the quality of your education. But private funds, tuition payments, are unrestricted funds. This means there are no restrictions on whether those funds are spent on student instruction, on administrative pay, or anything else.

What Professor Meister uncovered through his research into the restructuring of UC funding is that student tuition (your money) is being pledged as collateral to guarantee the university’s credit rating. What this allows the university to do is borrow money for lucrative investments, like building contracts or “capital projects” as they are called. These have no relation to the instructional quality of the institution. And the strong credit rating of the university is based on its pledge to continue raising tuition indefinitely.

Restricted state funds cannot be used for such purposes. Their use is restricted in such a way as to guarantee funding for the instructional budget. This restriction is a problem for any university administration whose main priority is not to sustain its instructional budget, but rather to increase its revenues and secure its credit rating for investment projects with private contractors.

So for an administration that wants to increase UC revenues and to invest in capital projects (rather than maintaining the quality of instruction) it is not cuts to public funding that are the problem; it is public funding itself that is the problem, because public funding is restricted.

What is happening as tuition increases is that money is being shifted out of instructional budgets and into private credit markets, as collateral for loans used for capital projects. Because of this, and because of increased enrollment, as university revenue increases the amount of money spent on instruction, per student, decreases. Meanwhile, students go deeper and deeper into debt to pay for their education. Using tuition payments as collateral, the university secures loans for capital projects. In order to pay their tuition, students borrow money in the form of student loans. The UC system thus makes a crucial wager: that students will be willing to borrow more and more money to pay higher and higher tuition.

But is it actually true that a university degree continues to give students a substantial advantage on the job market? It is now the case that 50% of university students, after graduating, take jobs that do not require a university degree. It used to be the case that there was a substantial income gap between the top 20% of earners, who had university degrees, and the bottom 80% of earners, who did not. But since 1998, nearly all income growth has occurred in the top 1% of the population, while income has been stagnant for the bottom 99%. This is what it means to be “part of the 99%”: the wealth of a very small segment of the population increases, and you’re not in it.

What this means is that the advantage of a university degree is far less substantial than it used to be, though you pay far more for that degree. The harsh reality is that whether or not you have a university degree, you will probably still “fall behind.” We all fall behind together. The consequence is that students have recently become less willing to take out more and more debt to pay tuition. It is no longer at all clear that the logic of privatization will work, that it is sustainable. And what this means is that the very logic upon which the growth of the university is now based, the logic of privatization, is in crisis, or it will be. Student loan debt is a financial “bubble,” like the housing bubble, and it cannot continue to grow indefinitely.

To return to my thesis: what this means for our university—not just for students, but especially for students—is that increasing tuition is the problem, not the solution.

What we have to fight, then, is the logic of privatization. And that means fighting the upper administration of the UC system, which has enthusiastically taken up this logic, not as a defensive measure, but as an aggressive program to increase revenue while decreasing spending on instruction.

Love and Peace,

ADG

stocktrader23 · 11-19-2011, 05:53 AM

stocktrader23 · 11-19-2011, 06:05 AM

Overload · 11-19-2011, 06:25 AM

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those black uniforms ... reminds me of ...

Fletch XXX · 11-19-2011, 06:27 AM

under all uniforms is still just a man

Caligari · 11-19-2011, 06:43 AM

Largest corporate...er...police force in the U.S. with 36,000 plus.
"From 1992 to 2008, nearly 2,000 New York Police Department officers were arrested, according to the department?s own annual reports of the Internal Affairs Bureau, an average of 119 a year."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Yor...ice_Department

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those black uniforms ... reminds me of ...

munki · 11-19-2011, 07:05 AM

marlboroack · 11-19-2011, 08:52 AM

Cops make you look crazy on purpose.

11-19-2011, 04:40 AM	#1
Failed Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 2,301	Scaredy Cops Cops beat, pepper spray, and arrest the peaceful protesting UC Davis students. But, in a show of strength, the students unite and surround the cops, chanting. The cops back down and look downright scared of the protesters. Then, the protesters give the cops permission to leave and they take it. An awesome video showing who truly holds the power.

11-19-2011, 05:42 AM	#5
stocktrader23 Let's do some business. Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: The dirty south. Posts: 18,781	Video just emerged of the Iraq war veteran that was beaten so bad by a cop in an occupy protest that his spleen ruptured. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/vide...n-police-video __________________ Hands Free Adult - Join Once, Earn For Life "I try to make a habit of bouncing my eyes up to the face of a beautiful woman, and often repeat “not mine” in my head or even verbally. She’s not mine. God has her set aside. She’s not mine. She’s His little girl, and she needs me to fight for her by keeping my eyes where they should be."

11-19-2011, 05:53 AM	#7
stocktrader23 Let's do some business. Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: The dirty south. Posts: 18,781	__________________ Hands Free Adult - Join Once, Earn For Life "I try to make a habit of bouncing my eyes up to the face of a beautiful woman, and often repeat “not mine” in my head or even verbally. She’s not mine. God has her set aside. She’s not mine. She’s His little girl, and she needs me to fight for her by keeping my eyes where they should be."

11-19-2011, 06:05 AM	#8
stocktrader23 Let's do some business. Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: The dirty south. Posts: 18,781	__________________ Hands Free Adult - Join Once, Earn For Life "I try to make a habit of bouncing my eyes up to the face of a beautiful woman, and often repeat “not mine” in my head or even verbally. She’s not mine. God has her set aside. She’s not mine. She’s His little girl, and she needs me to fight for her by keeping my eyes where they should be."

11-19-2011, 06:27 AM	#10
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11-19-2011, 05:01 AM	#2
Captain Kawaii So Fucking Banned Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 6,748	UC Pigs are basically rent a cop. Most can barely spell their name. If there were any hardcore types at Davis they could have overwhelmed and beat the shit out of those stupid worthless tools.

11-19-2011, 07:05 AM	#12
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11-19-2011, 08:52 AM	#13
marlboroack So Fucking Banned Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: ☣ Posts: 9,327	Cops make you look crazy on purpose.