{"id":7994,"date":"2011-11-19T12:46:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T20:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=7994"},"modified":"2011-11-21T09:46:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T17:46:09","slug":"university-of-california-has-physically-attacked-tuition-paying-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2011\/11\/19\/university-of-california-has-physically-attacked-tuition-paying-students\/","title":{"rendered":"University of California Has Physically Attacked Tuition-Paying Students"},"content":{"rendered":"
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University of California at Davis students staging a sit-in have been attacked by school police with massive doses of pepper spray<\/a>. The use of weapons against tuition-paying students by the university is grounds for removal of any administration officials with knowledge of these tactics. This is disgusting. Students have a long-standing tradition of free expression on their campuses. Sit-ins are a harmless and excellent way for students to express outrage. The pepper-spraying police should at the very least be discharged. There should also be legal charges brought against them.<\/p>\n

The spectacle of the university going after its students with weaponry and armored police thugs is simply outrageous. It’s an appalling act of stupidity and cruelty. This school should be hammered with lawsuits and public outrage. While Penn State University allegedly rapes small children, University of California blasts pepper spray into the faces of its kids. What the fuck may I ask is going on in this country? Our higher education system has typically been the only thing giving our country an edge internationally. Now it would seem that even that system is cracking.<\/p>\n

It seems clear that every single protester at every protest nationwide should be armed with a canister of pepper spray to use against police. Their faces are vulnerable under the helmet guards. Every single protester with pepper spray. It looks to me like the time for passivity might be ending. There is a tactic that I think could be used against police. It would be the singling out of an individual officer by hundreds of protesters. The surrounding of a single officer might put the police ranks into a very uncomfortable position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

University of California at Davis students staging a sit-in have been attacked by school police with massive doses of pepper spray. The use of weapons against tuition-paying students by the university is grounds for removal of any administration officials with knowledge of these tactics. This is disgusting. Students have a long-standing tradition of free expression […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2034,1266,995,298,2078,163,160,2098,2099],"tags":[2179,380,493,2180,949,2178],"class_list":["post-7994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights-2","category-current-events","category-freedom-of-exptression","category-news","category-occupy-wall-street","category-opinion","category-politics","category-protest-2","category-we-are-the-99-percent-2","tag-pepper-spray","tag-police","tag-protest","tag-sit-in","tag-students","tag-uc-davis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t