Created 11/19/2011 - 1 year ago
What we have seen in the last two weeks around the country, and now at Davis, is a radical departure from the way police have handled protest in this country for half a century.
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www.huffingtonpost.comtrammell: The best description I've read of what happened at UC Davis and why it—and the administration's response—is despicable: http://t.co/JV9i7hZG
jhodsdon: Extremely good write up from a professor at UC Davis about what happened. http://t.co/4i602yV1
PhilipSherburne: Bob Ostertag's essay on police brutality at UC Davis is essential reading. http://t.co/j9B0uBMH
jwindz: Great article by a prof at UC Davis who saw his top students pepper-sprayed http://t.co/2ssT01zp
DMcGconcal: Composer and sampling pioneer Bob Ostertag on the UC Davis protests (he teaches there) http://t.co/yeQHomWG
tikitok: RT @shareefali: Great piece by a UC Davis Prof. about militarization of police forces against protesters: http://t.co/nABES3cx #occupydavis #occupyoakland
BD_WONG: A UCDavis Professor speaks his passionate piece on Campus Police Brutality and UCD's relationship to #OccupyMovement http://t.co/UmagTCy5
TheWellOfSongs: This is well said... Militarization Of Campus Police http://t.co/VjSirmpe via @huffingtonpost
bessiec: Militarization of Campus Police- Unacceptable police brutality against students at my alma mater UC Davis: http://t.co/bL7zTLUh
chrisbrakebill: RT @treestman: "How is it that non-violent student protest has suddenly become "unsafe" in the United States?" http://t.co/Uv9IL040
sinden: “the current epidemic of police brutality is a reflection of the militarization (his word, not mine) of [police]” http://t.co/BqDPubUW
remo2020: Great article RT >> Militarization Of Campus Police http://t.co/znpioDzw via @huffingtonpost
sinden: “[in the photo w/o guns] the student is being arrested for selling cocaine." http://t.co/BqDPubUW
wavingbob: Article about peaceful demonstration in USA, by an academic at UC Davis. Militarization Of Campus Police: http://t.co/Q8kh2krT #occupy #ows
amanda___c: The best commentary on the UC Davis 'incident' I've read. I still don't understand the 'health & safety concern' http://t.co/3bovS2Wp
WinyanStaz: RT @jmcaninch68: Excellent essay: Militarization Of Campus Police http://t.co/uB2f379d via @huffingtonpost #ows #ucdavis
Java_Colleen: CA rightly has laws protecting seated inmates from pepper spray, but it is allowed against peaceful students: http://t.co/Wj5Nh9iE
elinthebean: http://t.co/n6syVt57 - Linking arms as a posture indicating protesters' intent to be non-violent.
nrchtct: RT @bederson: Strong and historically referenced description of UC Davis police state by Prof. Ostertag http://t.co/J8J7XN6j
jeffaplus: I didn't go to UC Davis, but it's still very close to my heart, and what has happened there is sickening. http://t.co/vkyPW2xe
ribblefizz: "In the Columbia photo, the one withOUT helmets, guns, or chemical assault weapons, the student [was] selling cocaine" http://t.co/pzawClUx
ReinadeBastos3: @gabriel_hgs Es el efecto boomerang: http://t.co/m3sXHMPL Esta es una de mis opciones. Está crocante!
daisy_razor: "6 years ago, tuition at the U of California was $5357. Tuition is currently $12,192...it will be $22,068 by 2015-2016" http://t.co/5O5ur5Nb
dddagradi: "California felons incarcerated for violent crimes have rights that students at public universities do not" http://t.co/SwYZvqcp
Do0g1e: 'Remember when universities used to expel students instead of spray them with chemical agents?' “@trammell: http://t.co/cCwrFZkw”
TheREAL_HouseMD: Powerful essay on the excessive violence used by police on students at UC Davis: http://t.co/i3mvQX2W
nickgreeves: RT @peterscott1965: #IdidntgetwhereIamtoday by pepper spraying peaceful protestors at UC Davis http://t.co/H8TejxbB" I'm on red
glukkake: RT @tensory: This piece by a UCD professor on police militarization is making me cry: http://t.co/3fQZiEph
D_Nye_Griffiths: Bob Ostertag on the militarisation of US campus police - http://t.co/xqfh4QLJ #UCDavis #OCW
escapist: Great article about the state of police brutality & civil disobedience by a UC Davis professor http://t.co/oOky3VBf (via @jhodson @mwichary)
jamesloveslulu: Huffpost: Prof. Bob Ostertag, UC Davis, brilliant, response to UC's militarized view of peaceful student protestors. http://t.co/Z9r3VrVt
AdyChristiansen: Superb article on Occupy protest at UC Davis from #HuffingtonPost: http://t.co/TLxEV8yf
iknowfoobar: RT @geoffd: This is important to read. Militarization of Campus Police http://t.co/mpZinJ4E
tonyadouraghy: UC Davis prof on the militarization of campus police http://t.co/CqR2311j via @huffingtonpost #fb
philippaburgess: RT @amyrnbsn Wow!Must read RT @MikeChorost: #UCDavis prof shares outrage at police brutality on campus http://t.co/gCFV57ov #occupycal #ows
