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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
not to discount what you said but i am pretty sure this was on a campus, not public property but private property , and one that i imagine the students had paid to be on, makes it a bit different scenario
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It's public properly, owned by the state of California. However, that does not give you the right to pitch a ten and do whatever the fuck you please.
In other words, I can't drive my car on the grass and park it there. It's public property, owned by the state, but that does not give me the right to do whatever the fuck I want there. You can't park on the grass, and you can't pitch tents.
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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
Lets take a hypothetical situation, you are having a birthday party in a local park with 20-30 friends, a group of armed police suddenly show up and say "disperse this riot now or you will be pepper sprayed" ..
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Perfect analogy. The local park in my home town has ten picnic tables, and during the summer these are staked out by parents early in the morning so they can have their kids birthday parties there. The problem is there are more birthday parties than tables, and fist fights started breaking out - Four times this summer. Police were called up, and told all of them to leave or face being arrested.
Why don't you understand this: When police are called to a dispute and tell you to leave the area, that's a legal order. If you fail to obey them, your quickly on the wrong side of the law no matter what - You can start with trespassing, failure to obey a police officer, and creating a nuisance. At that point they can arrest you, and if you resist arrest you'll be taken down by force - including pepper spray.
This has nothing to do with protesting. The cops didn't come to break up a protest; The came because the college called them because the students were out of control and failed to listen to the administration. The cops came to the dispute, the children refused to listen, and the children got arrested.
It doesn't matter if it's children on a college campus or grown adults arguing over picnic tables in the local park.