UC Berkeley Students To File Lawsuit Against University, Police

[kpete]

Source: Huffington Post

On Wednesday, 20 students -- along with a civil rights group, BAMN (By Any Means Necessary) -- will file a lawsuit against UC Berkeley administrators, the UC Police Department, and Alameda County Sheriff's officers. The lawsuit is demanding compensation for police brutality and false arrest, and the violation of students' First Amendment and Fourth Amendment rights, during a peaceful demonstration on Berkeley's campus on Nov. 9.

On that day, police were filmed shoving and beating protesters, many of whom were UC Berkeley students, on campus during a peaceful demonstration. Some of the students were arrested after the ordeal.

Students were shocked by the treatment they received from police. "A police officer jabbed me three or four times in the lower abdomen," said Ashley Pinkerton, a UC Berkeley Peace and Conflict studies student. "Each time it was a jolt more than the pain because my adrenaline was rushing so much, so I didn't really feel that stuff till much later." Pinkerton found herself standing up against campus police after helping another student who she saw being "strangled" by officers.

Pinkerton has been a supporter of the Occupy movement and has attended the general assemblies in Oakland. She said she's now proud to support the Occupy movement at her school. "I think, overall, just being in something that is so collectively active, it gives you this really righteous feeling...you share something really intense."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/turnstyle/uc-berkeley-students-to-f_b_1108406.html

[teddy51]

1. The Suit should be a slam-dunk with all the video available out there.

I hope it ends up with the Chancellors resignation or firing.

[SoDesuKa]

3. Send Birgeneau Packing

There's an opening at Penn State he might consider . . .

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. Yessssssss! The lawsuits have begun, thank goodness! About damned time. nt

[provis99]

4. stupid move by the students.

they can now look forward to months of themselves and their families being harassed by the cops.

[msongs]

5. "...I welcome their hatred." FDR tells it like it is nt

[sudopod]

6. I've logged in for the first time in months to say

that your post, right now, at this moment in time, is the dumbest, most asinine post on the internet.

Congratulations.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

8. +1 Gazzillion.

[qb]

7. + 1 googolplex

make the bastards pay

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. GOOD! Alameda also took part in the #Oakland attack which left Scott Olsen with a brain injury.

[Bozita]

10. Biggest K&R I can muster!

[Wilms]

11. ^