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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
i think the point was that the article was a complete fabrication of the facts.. it doesn't matter how you cut and paste it. They said they were surrounded and they used a sweeping motion to disperse the crowd , when the video clearly shows the police advance on sitting protesters and mace them in the face.
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This started before the police were brought in. The students were told to remove the tents by the school, and they refused. When college students refuse to obey the rules of the college, they are escorted off campus. In this case, the police were called. The students refused to listen to anyone, and the police went to arrest them. In very simple English, when the police are called into a dispute of this nature and the only resolution is to remove someone by force, the police will use force.
I think the police were surrounded. From the video I see a line of protesters blocking the sidewalks, protesters on both sides, and a group of police officers in the middle. You can't really see what's behind the police officers, but you can plainly see that in the back the police officers have their backs facing the camera. The officers in back were watching the far side of this group of officers.
Whatever. Some dumb kids refused to listen to the school staff, the police were called, the kids refused to "obey a peace officer" and were arrested, by force, using pepper spray.
This is what protesters do. They put police in an impossible situation and then exploit it. Our grandparents did this in the 1960s.