This post is a way for me to keep track of the arrests in the current wave of student protest at the University of California — for my own reference and for others’.
As of the morning of December 12, there have been 220 arrests in just 23 days. Students have occupied buildings at six California campuses in that time.
Wednesday, November 18
14 at UCLA: twelve students, two non-students, all arrested for refusing to leave the regents meeting.
52 at Davis: one for assault and resisting arrest, 51 for trespass. Fifty-one students, one professor.
2 at UCLA: UCLA website mentions just one, a student arrested for obstructing an officer.
Friday, November 20
44 at Berkeley: three arrested in the morning for burglary, 41 in the evening for trespassing.
Monday, November 24
1 at Irvine: a student arrested for attempted vandalism and resisting arrest. (As a commenter notes, the “attempted vandalism” charge was apparently based on the student banging on a closed door.)
Thursday, December 10
33 at SFSU: Police broke up an occupation on the San Francisco State University campus, arresting 23 inside and ten outside the building.
Friday, December 11
66 at Berkeley: UC police raided the peaceful open occupation of Berkeley’s Wheeler Hall shortly before five o’clock in the morning, arresting 66 people, more than 40 of them Berkeley students. The occupation had been going on for four days, and was scheduled to end voluntarily approximately 24 hours later.
8 more at Berkeley: Eight people, including two UC Berkeley students and two UC Davis students, were arrested near the university chancellor’s home on Friday night, accused of vandalizing the residence and attacking police.
Update: A commenter reminds me that there was an arrest at UC Santa Cruz more than a month before the earliest one listed here.
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December 11, 2009 at 3:40 pm
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December 11, 2009 at 6:25 pm
RiotSlug
just so you know, you’re missing an arrest and 2 court cases that happened at UC Santa Cruz on October 15 in conjunction with the second occupation at UCSC of the Humanities building
https://studentactivism.net/2009/10/16/another-occupation-at-ucsc/
December 11, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Angus Johnston
Thanks — I had a feeling I was missing something. I’ve made a note of it.
December 12, 2009 at 4:47 pm
UCI student
The UCI arrest was for “attempted vandalism”, for allegedly banging on the door to the admin building. Vandalism–as admin reported the charges to the press–implies that something was actually broken.
December 12, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Angus Johnston
Thanks for the valuable correction. I’ve updated the post.
December 16, 2009 at 12:30 pm
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December 16, 2009 at 5:31 pm
meh
you are missing people from nov 20th in berkeley, folks arrested OUTSIDE wheeler.
February 13, 2010 at 8:41 am
California fights back « Trial by Fire
[…] It was partly on their behalf, then, that students began organizing disruptions of the California School System’s administration in September of 2009. Since then, protests and confrontations between the authorities and students have continued, and in some circumstances have intensified. In all, over 200 students have been arrested. You can find more detailed information on the protests here. […]