UC Berkeley faculty stand between protesters, police crackdown [View all]
Source: Contra Costa Times
UC Berkeley faculty members prevented a police crackdown of Occupy Cal protesters who took over a library Thursday evening in the school's anthropology department.
The protesters decided to take over the anthropology library and camp for the night in Kroeber Hall after its hours were cut about 50 percent after winter break.
"We are here to stand between you and the administration who might do things that would be unwise," Anthropology Department Chairman Terry Deacon told about 80 Occupy Cal members gathered in the library.
UC Berkeley and UC Davis police made national headlines late last year when they were taped mistreating Occupy protesters at their campuses. UC Berkeley police were taped beating students and UC Davis police were taped spraying passive protesters with pepper spray.
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