This makes the incident a bit more clear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhPdH3wE0_Y&sns=fb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhPdH3wE0_Y&sns=fb
Article the third ...... Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Are you KIDDING Me!?!? Do you really mean to suggest that the Armed and Armored RIOT police had NO OTHER CHOICE than to pepper spray these UNarmed kids? Right. Two dozen heavily armed men couldn't find a better resolution...like walking around them?!? Please...These cops are an illustration of everything that is wrong with our police today. it is HARDLY necessary to send two dozen fat, pissed-off high-school educated brutes armed to the teeth with military weapons and armor to handle a bunch of Californian CHILDREN. Five men in polo shirts with zip-ties could have cleared that path in less than a minute, issued citations, and NOT created a scene out of '1984'. Ridiculous. For all of you 'good' cops out there...you should be OUTRAGED at the behavior of these thugs, not trying to defend them. There are plenty of places around the wolrd you can join the police force to beat up on your own neighbors...America cannot be allowed to be one of them. Shame on all of them.
Are you KIDDING Me!?!? Do you really mean to suggest that the Armed and Armored RIOT police had NO OTHER CHOICE than to pepper spray these UNarmed kids? Right. Two dozen heavily armed men couldn't find a better resolution...like walking around them?!? Please...These cops are an illustration of everything that is wrong with our police today. it is HARDLY necessary to send two dozen fat, pissed-off high-school educated brutes armed to the teeth with military weapons and armor to handle a bunch of Californian CHILDREN. Five men in polo shirts with zip-ties could have cleared that path in less than a minute, issued citations, and NOT created a scene out of '1984'. Ridiculous. For all of you 'good' cops out there...you should be OUTRAGED at the behavior of these thugs, not trying to defend them. There are plenty of places around the world you can join the police force to beat up on your own neighbors...America cannot be allowed to be one of them. Shame on all of them.
If nothing else it looks to me like there was alittle mob action being attempted by the protesters.Preventing the police from leaving is not peaceable. You address these things through the courts and through the legislature, not through holding the police.
A) High-school (or GED) is the minimum requirement for UC/Davis police.
B) What does "armed" have to do with anything? When your only tool is a hammer, every problem becomes a nail.
C) Hyperbole, to make a point...campus police should write parking tickets and escort drunk co-eds back to safety. There are already at least 2 different professional police organizations (outfitted with swat/riot if necessary) that have jurisdiction over UC davis...The county and the state. Should things spiral into violence (without help from the campus police) there are pleny of resources available to them.
Then A, you are also probably high school educated, with makes one wonder why you brought the point up.
B, not sure if you noticed, but this is a gun owners website, where most of the members carry their "tools" daily. Have been too many instances of members "hammering" anything.
And C, as someone already stated, hyperbole does you no service in making your point.
Do you read your posts? What a series of hollow straw-man arguments.
In case YOU haven't noticed I am NOT talking about private gun ownership. I am referring to the heavy-handed tactics of the UC Davis Campus police.
Third: I argue that hyperbole has a place in my post, It certainly got you riled up.
I noticed the language of your posts. In which you paint the UC Davis officers as uneducated, unfit, and ultra violent.
It makes no difference whether it or not you're talking about private gun ownership or not, you referenced "military" weapons, which as we all know, is a "gotcha" phrase used by the media to demonize ANY type of gun ownership.
Pepper spraying someon in the face, especially after refusing to let you leave, is hardly "heavy handed."
Actually it made me dismiss you because hyperbole in such a discussion is a clear indicator that you have no desire to have a reasonable discussion about the topic, you're going to discuss and argue from an emotional standpoint and as such to respond in kind is a waste of effort.
Yes, my argument is that "UC Davis officers as uneducated, unfit, and ultra violent". They are Campus police.
So a high school diploma makes someone uneducated? Classist much? Also kinda not understand what campus police implies...
Are you serious? it makes a HUGE difference! Private Gun Ownership keeps us free. 'Public' gun ownership keeps us under the yoke.
Oh, so guns arent tools? They're items of oppression? Can't have it both ways bro. What's good for the goose.
And finally, your pepper spray comment. You clearly have no idea how dangerous pepper spray is. Have YOU ever been pepper sprayed? How about for sitting on a sidewalk while asserting your constitutional rights? Are you allergic to Oleoresin Capsicum? If you are you could DIE.
You're talking out of turn...lol. The better question is have YOU been sprayed before.
For sitting on the sidewalk you paid to use.
Oh, gosh...people might have to walk around you...you deserve to be attacked by the police.
Uh what part of being "surrounded" are you missing? How do you walk around a circle from the middle? Sounds like a Polish joke.
We cannot allow this to occur, else how long do you think it will be before someone does that to YOU in the name of 'law and order'?