Posted on 02/07/2017 4:41:40 PM PST by TChad
Mr. (Milo) Yiannopoulos’s appearance on Feb. 2 was abruptly cancelled when rioting broke out outside the venue where he was to speak. Black-clad anarchists broke windows, set fires, and attacked people hoping to attend the event. All of this took place as officers from the campus police department watched from inside the building.
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I thought I was going nuts when I saw your post——until I went back and realized there was a “Load More” button——which I never noticed.
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I like PJ Media, but I could do without having to repeatedly click “Load More.”
Shoot. Check out some of her earlier brilliance as a Police Chief. In a Clinton White House, she would be qualified for the Homeland Security slot.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/UC-Berkeley-police-chief-had-only-herself-to-6472361.php
Typical equal-opportunity PC hire. What an incompetent wretch.
Oh “Her” failure.
That is all I need to know.
immediately. perhaps she is chancellor napolitano’s girl friend
We don’t have all the guns. They also have theirs. I do believe we are the better shots. And once the shooting starts will be better motivated and disciplined. And another important thing they forget and will probably be the last thing they forget; we do not need a leader to tell us what to do. Each of us are capable of individual, independent thought in time of crisis.
Affirmative Action gets my vote.
But I digress. You make some valid points, but the meme was created tongue-in-cheek, like most memes are. It wasn't intended to be serious.
It wasn't supposed to be a case for guns and strategy for using them. It was a humorous way to point out the difference between the two sides.
....gay as a hyena marching band
If you're being raped in plain sight -- and the Berkeley campus WAS being raped -- then you might as well lie back and enjoy it, so that you don't embolden the perpetrator (or make the police feel any obligation to act).
Well, yes, they did.
Prior to Milo's appearance the far left mayor of Berkeley announced, Using speech to silence marginalized communities and promote bigotry is unacceptable. Hate speech isn't welcome in our community.
I believe the city leaders, primarily the mayor and the police chief, made an agreement to allow demonstrators to engage freely in violence so long as no guns were used.
The FBI is supposed to be looking into the conduct of the city leaders but unless someone who knows confesses it's not likely they will find anything other than a failure to properly perform police duties .
I wonder if her ex was guilty.
It’s Demolition Man, when we need the Boondock Saints.
http://www.dailycal.org/2017/02/07/campus-police-face-criticism-response-yiannopoulos/
Campus police face criticism to response to Yiannopoulos
By Malini Ramaiyer | Staff
2/7/2017
Last Updated 11 hours Ago
UCPD is in the process of compiling footage from last week’s fiery Milo Yiannopoulos protest to identify suspects for vandalism, assault with a deadly weapon, battery, inciting a riot and failure to disperse, according to UCPD spokesperson Sgt. Sabrina Reich.
Reich said in a statement that 150 “black bloc” anarchists marched onto campus, which UCPD saw as a threat to public safety, prompting it to declare the protest an unlawful assembly. To prevent the escalation of violence, UCPD officers did not engage with the anarchists, according to Reich — instead, they shot “less-lethal munitions,” such as pepper spray projectiles, to distinguish the agitators from the rest of the crowd.
“In a crowd control situation, we prioritize the protection of life higher than the protection of property,” Reich said in her statement. “We understand that if we were to go out and engage the militant-style anarchists that it would embolden the protesters and escalate the level of violence possibly putting our students in harm’s way.”
According to Reich, UCPD incident commander Lt. Marc DeCoulode was in charge of making both strategic and tactical decisions during the protest.
When the protest escalated, UCPD announced multiple dispersal orders and activated a countywide mutual aid, calling for additional officers to help clear the crowd, according to Reich. UCPD rescued multiple people who were injured, in addition to arresting one individual for failing to disperse.
John Bakhit is an attorney for the law firm representing the Federated University Police Officers Association, which represents all of the police officers at the 10 UC campuses. Bakhit said the campus’s police officers were primarily concerned that they could not help citizens who were being attacked. Additionally, he said the officers felt stuck inside the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, surrounded by the violence outside.
Campus junior Ilsa Carrillo participated in the protest Wednesday night and said that while she understands the need to maintain peace, she disagreed with UCPD’s methods — specifically, the use of munitions.
But Naweed Tahmas, campus junior and member of Berkeley College Republicans, said he believed that UCPD did not take enough action during the protest.
“I was so concerned that these people would storm the building and (UCPD officers) were just sitting there,” Tahmas said. “These guys were not even attempting to disperse the crowd at all.”
Tahmas was in the Student Union with Yiannopoulos when M-80 firecrackers were launched at the building. He said he felt the ground shaking, while UCPD officers remained inside the building.
Even though Bakhit wasn’t at the protest, he said he hopes that officers will engage more next time to protect citizens.
“For future and in general, I want you to consider a world where there are anarchists and the police officers say they’re not going to engage,” Bakhit said. “That would be a scary world that we would be living in if that was the standard response to anarchy.”
Tahmas said UCPD did not accompany BCR members when they left the building, so he and his colleagues were followed by some people in the crowd. He added he didn’t think the officers did their job.
Yiannopoulos announced Saturday that he intends to return to campus. According to Tahmas, BCR will be communicating with the administration and UCPD about security measures for the event.
“We’re definitely going to hold the administration and UCPD’s feet to the fire to make sure the event can go safely as planned next time,” Tahmas said. “It’s disgraceful what happened that night.”
Contact Malini Ramaiyer at mramaiyer@dailycal.org and follow her on Twitter at @malinisramaiyer.
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