Former Poet Laureate Robert Hass Clubbed By Police At UC Berkeley

http://crooksandliars.com/

The violence against peaceful protesters makes no sense.

It's not every day a former US Poet Laureate is clubbed by police for standing up. But that's what happened to Robert Hass at the #OccupyCal demonstration last week.

In his essay for the New York Times, Hass writes about what drew him to the demonstration. It was pure, simple curiosity.

Earlier that day a colleague had written to say that the campus police had moved in to take down the Occupy tents and that students had been “beaten viciously.” I didn’t believe it. In broad daylight? And without provocation? So when we heard that the police had returned, my wife, Brenda Hillman, and I hurried to the campus. I wanted to see what was going to happen and how the police behaved, and how the students behaved. If there was trouble, we wanted to be there to do what we could to protect the students.

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are now pushing over elderly women and beating teenagers


in the name of the state

Read the op-ed; it's powerful.

Tesha

Im very worried as we all should be....i just keep hearing my daughters words from Friday when she saw the UC Davis police spraying non-violent student protesters with pepper spray directly in face as she shouted "But this is America!"......

Yes, this is America and this is not okay.....

Police who are anti-socialist for the non-rich and possibly smart, while socialist for the rich.