I’ll have a full post up on this later — after I teach — but for now check out this comment and the photos and brief writeup here.
Short version: UC Irvine not only detained students for chalking during a demo designed to make the point that students shouldn’t be detained for chalking, they sent infamous campus police officer Jared Kemper, who drew his weapon on student protesters last week, to do it.
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November 23, 2010 at 1:30 pm
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November 23, 2010 at 11:33 pm
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http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2010/11/9_uci_students_detained_for_ch.php
According to the OC Register, UCI admin is claiming that no students were detained. The police repeatedly told students both times that they were being detained.
And now UCPD is visiting students at their (and their parents’) homes in the Bay, Davis, and Merced to interrogate them!
November 24, 2010 at 1:17 pm
Anonymous Chalker
Sources at UCI claim they have multiple videos that serve as evidence of students asking Officer Park if they were being detained or free to go, she ignored their question for several minutes and continued to try and collect information unlawfully…refusing to answer the question until asked many times by those “detained” and the crowd. she finally CONFIRMED that they WERE being detained.