stevie.

twinklefish:

Students protesting at UC Davis.

Peaceful protesting mind you…unless you’re the police and you consider sitting on the floor to be a violent physical act that deserves a serious dose of pepper spray.

Dude, he’s spraying those students like they’re weeds. WEEDS.

This letter written by an assistant professor, demanding the chancellor to resign also provides some additional details.

“When students covered their eyes with their clothing, police forced open their mouths and pepper-sprayed down their throats. Several of these students were hospitalized. Others are seriously injured. One of them, forty-five minutes after being pepper-sprayed down his throat, was still coughing up blood.”

I honestly expected this to happen at Cal…I didn’t know UC Davis got this radical. o_o Serious admiration for all those students. Ahh everyone, stay safe. ;_;

Good job, assholes. You broke me.

During most of the Occupy movement, I’ve been curious but detached, understanding but skeptical. I didn’t feel that I had enough information to take a hard stance, and I admit that I failed to make the time to be informed.

When I saw this, I cried. Immediately and uncontrollably.

Congratulations. If people hadn’t found a reason to protest before, they sure have now. I was afraid that this would happen. I would have liked to see open discussion, compassionate thinking, and creative solutions come out of the Occupy movement, but all I’m getting are polarized sides. I guess maybe that’s good. Maybe those who wield their power and lash out in fear of the 99% are those-to-be-tarred-and-feathered? I don’t know.

That’s most of what I have to say about all of this: I don’t know. I don’t know what the Occupy movement wants to accomplish, exactly. I don’t know how I can help. I don’t know why on earth any Chancellor or police officer would want to beat or pepper spray students all sitting in a row like concentration camp prisoners waiting to be executed. 

I don’t know what comes next.

I do know that I’m very, very sad.

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