5 charged in baton-jabbing UC Berkeley protest (Occupy)

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Source: SF Chronicle

Five people have been charged in connection with an Occupy protest at UC Berkeley in November that attracted national attention after a YouTube video showed police jabbing their batons at screaming students.

The Alameda County district attorney's office charged four students and a professor last week with misdemeanor resisting arrest and other crimes, Teresa Drenick, a spokeswoman for the office, said Monday.

The charges stem from a Nov. 9 protest that attracted thousands of students to Sproul Plaza to protest UC Berkeley officials' decision to remove tents from the steps of the administration building.

When campus police and Alameda County sheriff's deputies moved in, they jabbed batons into the midsections of protesters trying to prevent them from reaching the tents. Thirty-nine people were arrested.

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[msongs]

1. the police rioted and "protestors" get charged. typical US law enforcement event nt

[Politicalboi]

2. I must be living in another world

I actually thought the 5 charged were the pigs.

[EFerrari]

3. Celeste isn't even one of the activist professors

in that department. What a farce. I hope she sues their Alameda Co. asses off.

[Dawson Leery]

4. Law "enforcement", above the law yet again.