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nightrider767 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 12:49 PM
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UC Santa Cruiz Police Brutality
Edited on Thu Nov-08-07 01:15 PM by nightrider767
Source: CNN

SANTA CRUZ -- Taking a page from their colleagues in Berkeley, a group of protestors took to the trees to protest campus construction in a redwood grove on the University of California-Santa Cruz campus, but they were met with arrests and pepper spray by campus police.

Read more: http://www.ktvu.com/news/14537647/detail.html#



Police thugs dispurse a crowd of school kids with batons and mace. Students protesting to preserve ancient redwood trees that are slated to be destroyed to make room for a parking lot.

Check this link. But the best pictures are currently being run on CNN.

The Police state in action. What a disgusting scene.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 12:50 PM
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1. There's no such school as USC Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz is part of the UC system. nt
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 12:53 PM
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2. beat me to it-- WTF is USC-SC?
:shrug:
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nightrider767 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 01:17 PM
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3. Ok, Ok, Ok,
You people got me on that one. I'm such a ditz. UCSC

Tune into CNN on your TV set. It's really amazing. The cops were going nuts on these kids...

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Trillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 02:21 PM
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4. Does anyone else hear the resounding sound of our leaders' silence?
Yeah, it's in the media, but what democratic primary candidate is speaking to the issue of negative reinforcements and punishments used in and by schools and school police?

I haven't read of one candidate addressing this, but maybe I missed it. If so, feel free to tell me.
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