UC Davis police attack peaceful demonstraters

[Danzig]

i'd imagine my daughter would have moved on when they said to move on.

[Alabama Stakes]

what if she showed some guts and stayed. Do you do everything some mall cop tells you to do ?

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Alabama Stakes

what if she showed some guts and stayed. Do you do everything some mall cop tells you to do ?

nope. but i don't go to malls....or protests for that matter.
all i know is, the people who sit and refuse to listen are looking to get arrested, it's what they're seeking. did he go too far? yeah, i'd say he did. but i do know that the police don't give one order and then spray either. i also know that none of us were there to see what happened. i'd think there are those who give benefit of the doubt, and those who automatically assume he overstepped his bounds, because they always think cops overstep.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Danzig

nope. but i don't go to malls....or protests for that matter.
all i know is, the people who sit and refuse to listen are looking to get arrested, it's what they're seeking. did he go too far? yeah, i'd say he did. but i do know that the police don't give one order and then spray either. i also know that none of us were there to see what happened. i'd think there are those who give benefit of the doubt, and those who automatically assume he overstepped his bounds, because they always think cops overstep.

Please - there are multiple videos from different people on-line, including a couple videos that are an hour long and show everything. Different points of view, that all show the police violence.

The only reason the police were caught in overt police brutality, and the police chief was caught lying about what happened, was due to citizen journalism. The videos do not lie.

I worked with police as professional partners for years. I have every respect for cops. Believe me, I'll side with a cop's side of the story until I see different. What happened at UC Davis was disgusting and illegal, and everyone from the cops to the police chief to the Chancellor should lose their jobs. This campus has a history of abusing the legal rights of it's students by inflicting violence upon them, during the tuition hike protests of 2008. Nothing has changed. They are still violent. And they trying to privatize this particular wonderful public college system.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i'd imagine my daughter would have moved on when they said to move on.

But legally you don't have to "move on". That's the point. Just because some cop - or Michael Bloomberg - doesn't want you there, or doesn't like what you are doing, doesn't mean he can stop you on a whim.

Wow. I cannot believe how many people so readily give up their basic rights in this country, after 9-11.

Where are all the ultra-conservative Libertarians and Ron Paul believers on this board? Why are you not screaming over this? It's supposedly the very basis of your political beliefs - freedom from a military force oppressing your legal, constitutional rights?

Local municipal police are not "in charge" of you. You have rights they - or the United States army, or a state national guard - cannot take from you.