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Tent University Police Violence

MBony

MBony

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I searched for 'Tent' and 'university' and came up with nothing. This is some crazy stuff. I haven't read the whole site as to why they were marching, but the video says a lot.

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1) What were they protesting?
2) What exactly were the cops doing to their necks? Obviously, it's some sort of protocol to remove sit-in protestors...are they essentially giving them a sleeper?

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I watched it and read the story after. The students broke the rules, yeah, but fvck man, there wasn't a need for the cops to do what they did. They just ruined the tents and were treating the demonstrators as if they weren't even human. The least they could've done was explain why they had to do what they were doing, instead of just completely ignoring them.

It was against campus policy, but no laws were being broken. I'd have to side with the students on this one but it's a pretty big tossup.
 
Originally posted by: werk
1) What were they protesting?
2) What exactly were the cops doing to their necks? Obviously, it's some sort of protocol to remove sit-in protestors...are they essentially giving them a sleeper?

duuuuh...missed the link at the bottom with the explanation...reading...
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I assumed it was like a sleeper, though it seems like that's a pretty risky move as you could end up choking the person to death instead. Also, the first couple clips shown seemed like the cops were more trying to choke the guy than suppress him.
 
That's just sick, and horrible. The police knocking cameras out of peoples' hands, choking people, ganging up on them one at a time when they aren't doing anything to hurt anyone.

I agree, peaceful protest is a thing of the past. 8 dead cops would have sent a much more powerful message.
 
It's illegal either way, so why would we compromise the idea when there were no guarantees or even hopes (at this point)? So in the end, after the fishbowl as well, it was decided that we were going to stay put, at the base, and camp. And the consequences would be dealt with.

So once that decision had been made the idea was to try to come up with a plan that would help the situation if it got bad (ie cops). It was generally agreed upon that we would go into lockdown, forming small circles of people, sitting, and arms linked, and wait to be arrested. This all seemed to be okay with everybody. After this discussion was already beginning, the administration came back and offered the quarry as a place for us to have "sanctioned" camping. This was such an obvious attempt at throwing a wrench in the machine of our little democracy.

I mean, as I am told, the quarry was offered last Friday as an option, and only hours later, removed as an option, again the message of "absolutely no camping". All day we were told that there would be no camping allowed, and once we democratically decided that we would peacefully disobey, AND THEN they decide it is an option. Extremely convenient timing, because it made people question for a second the merits of our existing plan. I think they miscalculated our community's gullibility because it didn't take us long to call bullshit.

At about this time the police, in riot gear helmets, came marching in and began surrounding the tent that we were all in. In order to do so they needed to move the tents that had been erected. Instead of being courteous and gently moving the equipment, they simply tore the structures down. Many had been staked to the ground, and many were physically ripped from the ground, causing the material to tear and effectively destroyed.

It wasn?t too long before the first person was violently taken from their peaceful and non-violent community. Like the others that would soon follow, I could not completely see what was happening because it was directly behind me, but I could hear it, and it was intense. The amount of sound that was created as the first one was pried away from their circle was consuming. People were feeling all sorts of different emotions, and it could be hear in their different yells and screams and cries. But collectively we expressed the pain over such an ignorant, cruel, calculated and misguided action.
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Spot the hypocrisy. We're going to do something we know is illegal, we'll form links to make us difficult to remove, oh noes we were violently removed.

If you didn't want to be violently removed, WTF did you go into "lockdown" for?
 
Those cops were acting like animals, and I wish some of them had died doing what they were doing. Then maybe they'd think twice before acting in such a manner next time.
 
That is kind of scary, but resisting and obstructing arrest is not a charge I'd be willing to face.

The police are doing what's necessary to break up the disturbance.
 
They were breaking the law, and then tried to prevent themselves from being arrested. What did they expect, the cops would just leave them alone? If I were ever to resist arrest, I would fully expect an ass-kicking.
 
Originally posted by: Nebor
I wish some of them had died doing what they were doing.
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But no one did. There's a reason for that - these are trained LEOs breaking up a public disturbance. You might wish some of those students had died, but they didn't.

So sad for you.

 
Ok, so they weren't allowed to gather on that property, correct? They were informed as such and told to disperse. Failure to disperse is an arrestable offense. Upon receiving passive physical resistence, the officers employed soft empty hand control techniques (what they were doing to the neck & below the ears of those people was pressing their pressure points).

If the video wasn't filled with overreactive screams it wouldn't have caused this kind of stir. Groupthink is an amazingly dangerous thing.
 
Hippies are such idiots. The cops should have clubbed them for resisting arrest, I'm sure a few light smacks to the head would have weakened their lockdown.
 
Originally posted by: bradruth
Ok, so they weren't allowed to gather on that property, correct? They were informed as such and told to disperse. Failure to disperse is an arrestable offense. Upon receiving passive physical resistence, the officers employed soft empty hand control techniques (what they were doing to the neck & below the ears of those people was pressing their pressure points).

If the video wasn't filled with overreactive screams it wouldn't have caused this kind of stir. Groupthink is an amazingly dangerous thing.
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They were told to disperse? By who? What gives them that right?
 
so what were they protesting, exactly? low wages for teachers and climbing tuition prices? errr....are they prisoner of the uni? what was stopping them from getting other jobs or seeking education somewhere else? seems to me that would send the biggest message on how they felt. pretty stupid and foolish, IMO.

If the video wasn't filled with overreactive screams it wouldn't have caused this kind of stir. Groupthink is an amazingly dangerous thing.
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yep. you could film seasame street on ice, throw in some kids running around screaming, shake the camera a bit and itll look like a riot.
 
Woo! Nothing quite like seeing a bunch of stupid/foolish hippies being put into their place. I'm saving this video for the times I'm feeling down and need a little "pick-me-up."
 
lol @ daniel1113

Hey the police aren't allowed to try and knock a camera out of someones hand right? That is the only 'iffy' thing I see from my very limited knowledge in stuff like this. I thought they are in public and you can pretty much film anything in public.

But yeah the people protesting should move. They got their message across and they should move. It is like we all get a group of us and go to the White House and just sit there or something. I'm sure the cops will come and move us.

Koing
 
Hopefully this imagery will allow you to see the pain and violence that both the university and the police are willing to inflict upon the peaceful, non-violent, participant
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Yes, it's always best to define a large group of people based on the actions of a few individuals in one incident
 
Originally posted by: Koing
lol @ daniel1113

Hey the police aren't allowed to try and knock a camera out of someones hand right? That is the only 'iffy' thing I see from my very limited knowledge in stuff like this. I thought they are in public and you can pretty much film anything in public.

But yeah the people protesting should move. They got their message across and they should move. It is like we all get a group of us and go to the White House and just sit there or something. I'm sure the cops will come and move us.

Koing
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Actually, it depends. If this was on private property of some sort, which I'm assuming must be, the police can knock cameras out of hands.

In all honesty, does anyone know the exact "maneuver" that the police were utilizing? Are they simply pressing known pressure points? Even though the students are squinting and grimmacing, it seems like a fairly peaceful way of removing a crowd. We've all experienced the power of pressure points, and although they hurt, they aren't damaging (especially since they automatically lead to an immediate reflex-esque reponse).
 
Imagine if the students had planned to attack the police rather than "lock down." If they had planned their attack as well as they planned their "lock down" they could have killed them all.
 
Originally posted by: daniel1113
Originally posted by: Koing
lol @ daniel1113

Hey the police aren't allowed to try and knock a camera out of someones hand right? That is the only 'iffy' thing I see from my very limited knowledge in stuff like this. I thought they are in public and you can pretty much film anything in public.

But yeah the people protesting should move. They got their message across and they should move. It is like we all get a group of us and go to the White House and just sit there or something. I'm sure the cops will come and move us.

Koing
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Actually, it depends. If this was on private property of some sort, which I'm assuming must be, the police can knock cameras out of hands.

In all honesty, does anyone know the exact "maneuver" that the police were utilizing? Are they simply pressing known pressure points? Even though the students are squinting and grimmacing, it seems like a fairly peaceful way of removing a crowd. We've all experienced the power of pressure points, and although they hurt, they aren't damaging (especially since they automatically lead to an immediate reflex-esque reponse).
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I see.

It was on College property.

I wouldn't think the cops have rights to knock at the camera though, but apart from that everything looks fine to me.

I know a guy who is a riot officer or 'teacher'. He teachers other cops/ people to dispurse riots.

Koing
 
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