Posted on 02/26/2010 7:30:55 AM PST by SmithL
BERKELEY. Calif. -- A party to protest budget cuts turned violent early Friday with protesters damaging UC Berkeley's Durant Hall and then spilling over into the city streets, igniting trash cans and Dumpsters, smashing windows and clashing with police.
Authorities said several people had been arrested and the damage from the melee was evident throughout the campus and adjoining streets.
There were no indications of what would come early in the evening when a dance party to protest the cuts got underway on Upper Sproul Plaza.
Authorities said sometime around 11:15 p.m. a group of protester began occupation of Durant Hall, vandalizing the building.
The crowd then grew to more than 200 and poured into nearby streets. By 1:45 a.m., fueled by anger and alcohol, the crowd reeled completely out of control at the intersection of Durant and Telegraph avenues.
Officers from the campus police, Oakland, BART and the California Highway Patrol responded to the scene.
Riot-geared officers stood shoulder-to-shoulder on Telegraph, facing off against the crowd. But the violence continued to escalate and exploded when a Dumpster was set ablaze.
Authorities said fights then broke out and the crowd began hurling objects at windows and the officers as they moved in. The disturbance, police said, was finally completely under control shortly after 3 a.m.
Ah, the pouting entitled adolescents. As a mom, I always was really swayed by a pouting tantrum — NOT.
Shades of Tiananmen Square?
Ah yes!...and then there’s bucolic Berkely....
Greece 2
Public sector trough needs refilling, or we will burn the place down.
Tea Party protesters are violent eh Nancy? This is right next to your district, was this what you were talking about when you whined about violent protesters? So do something Nancy.
Gee, ain’t it a shame when liberal schools get bitten in the ass by liberal students?
Ah, the pouting entitled adolescents. As a mom, I always was really swayed by a pouting tantrum — NOT.
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As I say to my kids....”Never try to out-stubborn your mother.” ;-)
These kids need a good switch to the backside.
I hesitate to post what I think what work to stop this kind of crap. The moderator would remove my post.
You can’t get 20 leftists together in one place without something violent happening.
Berkley, the home of so-called peaceful,anti-war protests and real violent, late night drunken melee’s.
Hypocrisy is thy name.
Just like they were raised to do. Who wants a pretty, peaceful town anyway? Good for them. /s
Yes, this is the ‘’tolerance, peace and ‘’diversity’’ crowd. The fine young cannibals are upset because they don’t understand why they should have to pay for anything or have it denied to them. “Education is a right!’’.
Well-educated hoods must be marginally better than completely dumb, uneducated ones...
Just saying.
trial run...if Obama succeeds in assembling his brown shirt army it will be happening everywhere (they call it a “mass movement”)
Like that’s never happened to me,
lately,
OK, not yet, this morning.
Left wing extremism....and yet, there is all this continued fuss over the rise of right wing extremism......ironic, huh?
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