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• • Heather Clitheroe@heathercl

  

  Heather Clitheroe November 19, 2011 - 3:07pm

  It is a very strange time to be researching dystopian narratives.

• • sarah beth@sarahma108

  

  sarah beth November 19, 2011 - 4:13pm

  "We're sorry you made us pepper spray you... jerks."

  UC Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi said in a statement Friday that the university will be reviewing the details of the incident: “We are saddened to report that during this activity, 10 protesters were arrested and pepper spray was used.”

  She added: “We deeply regret that many of the protesters today chose not to work with our campus staff and police to remove the encampment as requested. We are even more saddened by the events that subsequently transpired to facilitate their removal.”

• • Mark A. McCutcheon@mccutcheon

  

  Mark A. McCutcheon November 19, 2011 - 4:34pm

  Dystopia now; guess it wasn't a Photoshop job after all.
  This Alternet article shows a video of the incident.
  http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/736372/video_of_cop_viciously_pepper-spraying_sitting_students_goes_viral/#paragraph5

• • Mark A. McCutcheon@mccutcheon

  

  Mark A. McCutcheon November 19, 2011 - 8:59pm

  Hey, look, sometimes Wordpress' Freshly Pressed section doesn't post vapid Life Section D-list crap. Here's something I just found there, the protest organizer's open letter to the UC Davis chancellor -- demanding her resignation.

  You are responsible for the police violence directed against students on the UC Davis quad on November 18, 2011. As I said, I am writing to hold you responsible and to demand your immediate resignation on these grounds.

• • Heather Clitheroe@heathercl

  

  Heather Clitheroe November 21, 2011 - 5:41pm

  From what I was reading, these were campus police, not 'police' police.