A crowd of UC Davis students confronted chancellor Linda Katehi in the wake of an incident that occurred between protesters and campus police on Friday.
According to reports, police unleashed pepper spray on a group of students protesers who were part of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Video footage of the protest shows that students were sitting quietly when police began to show off a can of pepper spray before dousing the students.
Katehi held a press conference on Saturday to address the incident. Students began to surround the building in protest and she reportedly refused to leave amid safety concerns. Finally, the students cleared a path for her to exit. As she walked back to her car, surrounded by students, some began to ask her questions, which she mostly brushed off.
Double the fun by playing both videos at the same time.
These protests are a smelly, important part of democracy. It stretches things and Americans are entirely too complacent these days.
Incidents like this are ugly, but I’m impressed with how little violence there has been so far.
Out of money, an OWS protester uses an ATM and it asks if he will accept a $1 fee. He knows the money will just go to a greedy, corrupt bank. Does he hit “Yes”?
Sure, it’s his parents’ card anyway.
A priest and a rabbi walk into a bar; an OWS protester walks into a baton.
Roseanne Barr, Anne Hathaway, Michael Moore, Kanye West, and Susan Sarandon attend protests against economic inequality.
Roseanne Barr, Anne Hathaway, Michael Moore, Kanye West, and Susan Sarandon attend protests against economic inequality.
John Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, and Karl Marx walk past an OWS demonstration. “Idiots,” says Hayek. No one disagrees.
A weary OWS protester returns to college.
Roommate: “How are you?”
Protester: “Not so great. I have body lice, the flu, and a screaming case of gonorrhea.”
Roommate: “You caught the flu?”
What’s the difference between Barack Obama’s nebulous whatever-you-want-it-to-mean 2008 campaign and OWS?
Three years.
What’s the difference between intentionally provoking a caged bear in a zoo and intentionally provoking a tired cop at UC Davis?
Bearbaiting is illegal.
It sounds like you enjoy bear baiting.
Is it going to have to come down to a Kent State incident before the US finally wakes up?
The authorities are out of control.
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Kent State at least shut down campus protests, combined with eliminating the draft of course.
Free speech is one thing. Doing what these students are doing does nothing. They are just annoying and creating unrest. What ever happened to just having a peaceful rally? Because they do this just to get sympathy from the media filming it. I do not blame the Police for spraying them. It seems like a better way then wrestling with them. Nobody is worse for wear after the effects wear off. You can always get up and walk away peacefully.
Are you some 85+ year old guy who thought the very same thing during Vietnam?
Because if you were not around back then and think this, then there is something really wrong in your head.
Or would you rather people don’t make a scene because it makes you uncomfortable?
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RENEW!