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UC Berkeley police shift to safety over force at protests
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | February 11, 2017 | Nanette Asimov

Posted on 02/11/2017 3:04:20 PM PST by artichokegrower

The most forceful action by UC Berkeley police recently against hordes of demonstrators protesting a campus appearance by right-wing agitator Milo Yiannopoulos was to shoot pepper-and-paint balls at them from a distance.

Compared with past demonstrations, campus police in this case were positively kind

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: berkeley; freedomofspeech; milo; protests
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To: headstamp 2

Many FReepers mention boycotting specific businesses; we should also boycott whole areas. I live between Newark & Jersey City here in NJ, and don’t spend a dime in either; in fact, many of their residents shop in my town (we have a Wal-Mart, Shop-Rite, and various other businesses you could never operate in a ghetto). Because our stores are like Third World countries from noon on, my wife will drive 30 minutes west (where the Americans live) to go to a Wal-Mart there...


21 posted on 02/11/2017 5:51:54 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: artichokegrower

Hm.

If it was the city counselmen’s stuff being broken and burned and the mayor being threatened, I wonder what they’d say then....


22 posted on 02/11/2017 6:03:51 PM PST by Tzimisce
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