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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
www.climbaddictdesigns.com
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Nov 22, 2011 - 12:48am PT
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I haven't the time for this one but imagine Cragman with his bear photo...
...and the cop peppering the bear
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S.Leeper
Sport climber
Pflugerville, Texas
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Nov 22, 2011 - 12:48am PT
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S.Leeper
Sport climber
Pflugerville, Texas
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Nov 22, 2011 - 12:57am PT
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S.Leeper
Sport climber
Pflugerville, Texas
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Nov 22, 2011 - 01:01am PT
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just the cop
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Nov 22, 2011 - 01:04am PT
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"SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The University of California, Davis said Monday that it has placed its police chief on administrative leave amid outrage over widely circulated videos of officers dousing pepper spray on student Occupy protesters.
In a news release, campus officials said it was necessary to place police Chief Annette Spicuzza on leave to restore trust and calm tensions following Friday's crackdown on the "Occupy UC Davis" encampment, which resulted in 10 arrests.
The school has also placed two officers on administrative leave.
Videos posted online clearly show one riot-gear clad officer spraying a line of protesters as they sit passively with their arms intertwined. Spicuzza said the second officer was identified during an intense review of several videos.
On Sunday, UC President Mark Yudof said he was "appalled" by images of protesters being pepper-sprayed and plans an assessment of law enforcement procedures on all 10 campuses.
"Free speech is part of the DNA of this university, and non-violent protest has long been central to our history," said Yudof, who heads the 10-campus UC system. "It is a value we must protect with vigilance."
Yudof said it was not his intention to "micromanage our campus police forces," but he said all 10 chancellors would convene soon for a discussion "about how to ensure proportional law enforcement response to non-violent protest."
Protesters from Occupy Sacramento planned to travel to nearby Davis on Monday for a noon rally in solidarity with the students, the group said in a statement.
UC Davis officials refused to identify the two officers who were place on administrative leave but one was a veteran of many years on the force and the other "fairly new" to the department, Spicuzza said.
She would not elaborate further because of the pending probe.
"We really wanted to be diligent in our research, and during our viewing of multiple videos we discovered the second officer," Spicuzza said. "This is the right thing to do."
Both officers were trained in the use of pepper spray as department policy dictates, and both had been sprayed with it themselves during training, the chief noted.
David Buscho, a UC Davis senior from San Rafael, said he and his girlfriend were pepper-sprayed Friday.
"I had my arms around my girlfriend. I just kissed her on the forehead and then he sprayed us. Immediately we were blinded," Buscho said. "So I was sitting there blind, suffocating. My girlfriend was writhing in pain. I wanted to touch her but my hands were covered in pepper spray."
"He just sprayed us again and again and we were completely powerless to do anything," Buscho said. "This was my first protest. I've never seen any police brutality in person like that."
Meanwhile, UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi said she asked the Yolo County District Attorney's Office to investigate the department's use of force. She said she's been inundated with reaction from alumni, students and faculty and also would speed up an investigation that was to have taken three months.
"I spoke with students this weekend and I feel their outrage," Katehi said in a statement Sunday.
Katehi also set a 30-day deadline for her school's task force investigating the incident to issue its report. The task force, comprised of students, staff and faculty, will be chosen this week. She earlier had set a 90-day timetable. She also plans to meet with demonstrators Monday at their general assembly, said her spokeswoman, Claudia Morain.
The UC Davis faculty association called for Katehi's resignation, saying in a Saturday letter there had been a "gross failure of leadership." Katehi has resisted calls for her to quit.
"I am deeply saddened that this happened on our campus, and as chancellor, I take full responsibility for the incident," Katehi said Sunday. "However, I pledge to take the actions needed to ensure that this does not happen again. I feel very sorry for the harm our students were subjected to and I vow to work tirelessly to make the campus a more welcoming and safe place."
The incident reverberated well beyond the university, with condemnations and defenses of police from elected officials and from the wider public on Facebook and Twitter.
"On its face, this is an outrageous action for police to methodically pepper spray passive demonstrators who were exercising their right to peacefully protest at UC Davis," Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said in a statement Sunday. "Chancellor Katehi needs to immediately investigate, publically explain how this could happen and ensure that those responsible are held accountable."
The protest Friday was held in support of the overall Occupy Wall Street movement and in solidarity with protesters at the University of California, Berkeley who were jabbed by police with batons on Nov. 9.
Nine students hit by pepper spray were treated at the scene, two were taken to hospitals and later released, university officials said.
Meanwhile Sunday, police in San Francisco, about 80 miles west of Davis, arrested six anti-Wall Street protesters and cleared about 12 tents erected in front of the Federal Reserve Bank.
Across the bay in Oakland, police cleared out the city's two remaining Occupy encampments on Sunday and Monday. Authorities say protesters at both locations left peacefully and no arrests were made.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Nov 22, 2011 - 01:12am PT
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Why would a university have a police department independent of the town it's in? Are they a law unto themselves? Do they have the capacity to have a private police force? It makes sense that they'd have traffic and security personnel, for basic needs such as parking, traffic, vandalism, break ins and such. But armed cops?
Looking at it another way, a university is something of a cloistered environment, a bit like the Valley in fact. Yes, you have lots of energetic young people to shepherd, and no doubt there are occasional real crimes, but it's hardly east LA.
Up here, "security guards" in places like universities often are either wannabe or retired cops. Zealots or clock-punchers. They're not armed, and have to call in the police for anything serious.
Of course, the schizophrenic mania in the US for both guns and personal 'freedoms', and for authoritarianism, no doubt skews this.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Nov 22, 2011 - 01:24am PT
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we kicked the ROTC off campus back in 1970, couple of cocktails on the side of the building
kind of like animal house,
then the beagle demonstrations in 86,
remember Bakke getting into med school?
homeboy from los altos,
"Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978) was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that ruled unconstitutional the admission process of the Medical School at the University of California at Davis, which set aside 16 of the 100 seats for African American students.
The "diversity in the classroom" justification for considering race as "one" of the factors in admissions policies was different from the original purpose stated by UC Davis Medical School, whose special admissions program under review was designed to ensure admissions of traditionally discriminated-against minorities. UC Davis Medical School originally developed the program to (1) reduce the historic deficit of traditionally disfavored minorities in medical schools and the medical profession, (2) counter the effects of societal discrimination, (3) increase the number of physicians who will practice in communities currently underserved, and (4) obtain the educational benefits that flow from an ethnically diverse student body.
Justice Powell wrote the opinion for the Court, which was joined by Chief Justice Burger, Justice Rehnquist, Justice Stewart, and Justice Stevens, ordering UC Davis Medical School to admit Bakke. Justice Powell's rationale, however, did not carry a majority of justices. Justice Powell, writing for himself save Part I and V-C joined by Justice Blackmun, Justice Brennan, Justice Marshall, and Justice White, and Part III-A joined only by Justice White, concluded that while the school had a compelling interest in a diverse student body and therefore could consider race as a "plus" factor in its admissions program (Part IV-D), it could not ex ante set aside seats specifically for a certain race, resulting in the automatic exclusion of others based only on race (Part IV-B).
Chief Justice Burger, Justice Rehnquist, Justice Stewart, and Justice Stevens, while concurring in result, would have not relied on the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, but instead, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Nov 22, 2011 - 01:49am PT
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They do UBC and all the "endowment" lands, and used to be (and maybe still are) a subdivision of the Richmond RCMP, that being the nearest of any size. They were never seen much on campus, and mostly did traffic and property crime.
They brought in huge numbers of RCMP for the APEC mess. Because it's a federal government/international event, the RCMP have main responsibility. There were hundreds at UBC. The regular detachment was probably not much involved. Out of their league.
You're right about the local detachments of the RCMP around BC. Unless there's local civilian accountability, we should dump them, and go back to having provincial police. The manslaughter of Dziekanski, and subsequent RCMP perjury, was the last straw.
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Nov 22, 2011 - 01:50am PT
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Nov 22, 2011 - 02:10am PT
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Adbusters magazine, based in Vancouver, started the whole Occupy Wall Street movement. Here's their current take: http://www.adbusters.org/
It's hard to figure out a magazine that claims to be anti-consumerist, but that's full of glossy, albeit satirical, ads.
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Nov 22, 2011 - 04:07am PT
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You offer nothing to back up what you appear to assert. Skipt
But, if you are not going to back of your asertions, then you really shouldn't be worried about lack of logic with others. Skipt
Now that's what I call irony.
Lil' Skippy telling others they don't back up their ASSertions.
Hey Fats, what's the proper amount of pepper spray to use on those illegal OCCUPIERS in the West Bank?
They won't move.
They are breaking the law.
They are infringing on the rights of others.
By all the standards you have extolled they should be prepared for any bad thing that happens to them and they better not whine about any of it the dirty hippies.
Should we just dump a couple of fire retardant bomber loads on them or should they be cooked with your heat ray?
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Nov 22, 2011 - 07:42am PT
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/11/19/police-response-to-occupy-wall-street-is-absurd/
By and large, Occupy has been a peaceful affair. Certainly pepper-spraying protesters while they sit calmly in a row like this is a gross abuse of power. It should have our collective blood boiling, whether or not we even agree with the protesters themselves.
And make no mistake, the powers of the police in this country have grown out of hand. I’ve written at length on the militarization of the police, of SWAT team abuses, and the way that the war on terror and the war on drugs have both contributed to what is really just a war on individual liberty.
Occupy Wall Street may need to grow up and evolve, but a far greater and more pressing issue facing this country is what to do about the security state we’ve erected about us at the local, state, and federal level.
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Nov 22, 2011 - 12:07pm PT
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Nov 22, 2011 - 12:18pm PT
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MS Paint is no substitute for PS. But that's all I have here.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Nov 22, 2011 - 12:49pm PT
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It's pretty irresponsible to show up someplace where the police are suited up in RIOT gear if you're pregnant.
It's not a good idea anyway, but especially not if you're pregnant.
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Nov 22, 2011 - 01:02pm PT
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classy...
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WBraun
climber
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Nov 22, 2011 - 01:36pm PT
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Yeah they're pussies.
Fuking whiny pussies.
They said there's nothing we could do while sitting there.
Stupid Americans .....
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travelin_light
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Nov 22, 2011 - 02:18pm PT
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On a side note, if anyone is actually interested in acquiring their own pepper spray. I found some excellent reviews.
"I know the first thing you thought when you saw the red canister: That's girly. This isn't the fire department, ladies.
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Buy a whole case!"
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