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Video: UC Davis Students Line Streets in Eerie, Silent Protest of University Chancellor

After University of California, Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi said Saturday she was launching a probe of the circumstances that led to campus police officers coating seated demonstrators with pepper spray the day before, students staged a silent protest, lining the streets and watching Katehi walk past them.

According to the Davis Enterprise, several hundred protesters had gathered outside the building where Katehi was scheduled to hold a press conference and demanded her resignation. She did not leave the building for several hours because the crowd was “perceived as hostile.” When she finally left, the protesters had lined the street outside and sat in total silence, arms interlocked, staring at her as she walked to her car.

h/t Boing Boing

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  • RightUnite
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 2:48pm

    Right…. This wasn’t staged AT ALL!

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    • normbal
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 11:43pm

      They came, they protested, they were asked nicely to leave, they were told to leave, they were ordered, LAWFULLY, to leave. They were in violation of any of a number of ordinances dealing with LAWFUL assembly (the TEA party paid for its permits, these criminals don’t even bother applying), the least harmful method of dispersing crowds was used. i wish it had been CS gas, it’s a heck of a lot more effective and fun to watch.

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    • theaveng
      Posted on November 21, 2011 at 8:27pm

      Actually most of the Occupy organizers have acquired month-long permits.

      Which is kinda silly when you think about it because the U.S. and State Constitutions already provides the permit to assemble in a peaceful manner.

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  • showmerancher
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 2:44pm

    I don’t agree with the protesters in the slightest as to the substance of their protest. That said, they have the absolute right to protest as long as they do so legally and don’t violate the rights of others in the process. I actually think that this was an innovative and effective way of “voicing” their opinion and in fact was the “loudest” way they could have done it.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 3:53pm

      Well-said.

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    • dsind
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 4:08pm

      “they have the absolute right to protest as long as they do so legally ”
      The later is the prob Dude-aroo.

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    • dsind
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 6:59pm

      But I miss the”HEY-HEY HO-HO……..”

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    • TheVoice1
      Posted on November 21, 2011 at 8:08am

      I do not agree with the Occupy madness in any way, however I must say that this peaceful silent protest against the tuition hikes of the university was innovative and seemed well within the rights of the students. At least they are sincerely protesting for a legitimate cause in a seemingly legitimate way.

      No tents, no crap’n on the sidewalks, no throwing stuff, yelling and screaming, no rapes…. peaceful protests are a constitutional right and done this way certainly set them apart, at least in my mind, from the other madness and insanity we are seeing elsewhere by a long shot.

      Stand Strong America

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    • oldschoolgreen
      Posted on November 21, 2011 at 3:03pm

      I don’t know but I suspect she could make a case that this is harrasment or stalking. It is eerie and she obvioulsy has never been confronted by such a scene. Who has? Think she should have shook their hands each and everyone of them, or had pizza delivered or hey is Berkley maybe passed around a hooka. Anything to pop their self righteous, spoiled kid balloons. This will be an object lesson in how to be railroaded for anyone in a leadership position or anyonr trying to do the railroading.

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  • ooskerDoo
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 2:35pm

    Shouldn’t it be the PARENTS of the students protesting the pay hike?

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    • Rightsofman
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 2:51pm

      The cops did no wrong – the school should suspend/expel the unruley students. There used to be consequences for bad behavior now it gets rewarded in the trophies – for – showing – up USA.

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  • MomaGrisley2
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 2:34pm

    Leave the officers alone for doing their job in keeping the peace. We need to speak up LOUDLY against this UNFAIR treatment of police when they do the job they are paid to do.

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    • gunsofthepatRIots
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 2:58pm

      Theres no excuse for what those officers did to those students

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    • toomuchgovt
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 3:01pm

      I would speak up for the police, when they start doing their job.

      All I see is people being allowed to break the law. I guarantee if that was the TEA Party violating the law, it would NOT have lasted 2 months or even one night.

      The laws of this land should apply to everyone equally. Not to some of the people some of the time.

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    • Huguenot Descendant
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 3:39pm

      @gunsofthepatRIots

      Nice MGS reference. La-li-lu-le-lo. But I must say the police did nothing wrong in pepper spraying those students who broke the law by setting up camp and not allowing officers through to take it down. It’s not like pepper spray will kill them, it hurts yes, but only for a period of time.

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    • ned1235
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 7:39pm

      When u are warned repeatedly that that was going to happen then they had to follow through and if they had waded in and moved them u would mad about that to did any of them die? No they had a temporary stinging. . I am well aware of the risks but the kids.p chose to take these risks. What else could they have done shot them with tazors?

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    • RossPoldark
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:23pm

      Sorry, but they broke the law by setting up camp. There is no such thing as squatters rights anymore. I can’t go to your home and squating on your property.

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  • ares338
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 2:34pm

    Is The Blaze trying to add spice to this really boring story? Silence is not eerie…..jeez…give us a break. By the way..silence is golden!

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  • sizzler2220
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 2:26pm

    Linda Katehi needs to be sprayed with pepper spray.

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  • gm2727
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 2:25pm

    Sooo.. when does civil disobedience become criminal trespass? After they were warned to move their butts? How many times? Are the officers required to use brute force to remove them — in the middle of hundreds of demonstrating students — as opposed to warning them they will be peppe-sprayed?

    It seems to me the officers performed their duty well and used the least amount of force necessary to remove the trespassers. JMO.

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    • stephenb.net
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 5:33pm

      They PAY for the right to be on those premises! They PAY to be on campus and a lot of money too in the form of loans that they will be PAYING off for years. I don’t agree with many of the comments on this blog because so many of you are narrow minded anger filled ideologues who see pepper spraying students who are sitting down causing no problems as being not only a good thing but wildly entertaining. Yet your brains can not conceive of the same action being taken against you when it’s your turn to stand up against what the government decides is right for your lives. Absolute power corrupts absolutley and protesting peaceably against that corruption is not only our right but our duty as Americans. Right or wrong in our opinions we have a right and a duty to stand up for them. being pepper sprayed in the face when doing so on ground you paid dearly to stand on is wrong. Wake up, your freedoms are being engulfed by your ideology. First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out —
      Because I was not a Socialist.

      Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out —
      Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

      Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out —
      Because I was not a Jew.

      Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.

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    • Sniper342
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 5:45pm

      You are exactly right. If those officers had went in and laid hands on those students and even one had been injured everybody in America would have been calling for their job. These students were breaking the law, they were warned, and they were sprayed. The spray takes the fight out of them and allows the officers to use the minimal force necessary to effect an arrest. Nobody gets hurt. People need to stay off the police in these situations unless you have walked a mile in their shoes, because believe me when I tell you they are in a no win situation at these occupy events. Pepper spray is harmless to most people unless they have some type of breathing problem, and if you have a breathing problem and you get sprayed with pepper spray after being warned that you are going to be sprayed then you deserve whatever happens. Remember personal responsibility? It was pepper spray people, not agent orange.

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    • Shego
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 7:57pm

      @STEPHENB.NET,

      Well said.

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    • RossPoldark
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:26pm

      They should have used a steam roller followed up by a backhoe to pick of the garbage afterwards.

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  • your sensei
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 2:16pm

    OK, it’s official. You’re outraged by people standing quietly.

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    • RossPoldark
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:32pm

      Sensi, Yes I am. they should use a steam roller the next time followed by the blade of a backho scrapping the garbage off the side walk. Peace and love to yah!

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  • dontbotherme
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 2:11pm

    Such silence can be terrifying. It took a lot of courage to take those steps to her car. Oh, how I wish these “students” could be expelled for intimidation & rioting.

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  • hightide
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 2:07pm

    I hope daddy saw them and takes away the credit card and video camera…

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 2:01pm

    These people are unfocused and everything they are protesting happen to be the effects rather than the causes. It would be like me being upset by the water on my floor rather than the burst pipe that is spewing the water on the floor in the first place.

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  • Walkabout
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 2:01pm

    What is the point of the cameras? One you have 8 points of the compass covered, why would you need more.

    Certainly the protesting children hate it when they are filmed. Any independent film of them is beyond their control to edit & suppress.

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  • ADNIL
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 1:59pm

    So, the inmates are running the asylum? I mean students running the school?

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    • lukerw
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 2:09pm

      No… it’s the Communists… where you only have the Rights to be silent and do as you told. The Universities are Rats Nests…

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  • Old Truckers
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 1:59pm

    That would be like walking past a pride of Lions as their eyes glowing in the night, followed you.

    When will they pounce?

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    • Laus Deo
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 2:19pm

      Comparing those spoiled twits to a pride? Laughable.

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  • Walkabout
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 1:58pm

    Imagine that. The protester don’t block access & the police do nothing to them.

    Will the protester learn the lesson? No, they don’t want to learn!

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    • TheE
      Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:25am

      These “students” aren’t in the habit of “learning” on these campuses these days. Brainwashing does not equal learning, and these commie factories need to be seen for what they are if this country is to survive.

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  • dvwrld
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 1:57pm

    Give the woman a medal if she had anything to do with the cops and the pepper spray. It‘s a beautiful thing when you can watch some one being educated about being responsible for a person’s actions. Next time make it mace and bring in the dogs.

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    • ADNIL
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 2:02pm

      IMHO if she were in control of the school (students), she would not need the Police. Since when is a school a “democracy”?

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  • SoupSandwich
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 1:57pm

    Reap it lil lefty. So sad in one way, they eat their own right quick while they are still squirming. Higher learning doesn’t include morals or give a nod to actual law. Now you can take a loan out on anything and scream injustice because you are too lazy to pay it back. Sweet. We should all apply to UC Berk or Irvine and swamp them with paper work, then say nah, you keep it. All that awe inspiring and grandiose theory is so moving, until you live it on the way to your car after ‘work’. hahahahaha how is that ows crap working for you?

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  • Slayer
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 1:56pm

    If she’s smart, she‘ll ignore them and they’ll probably go away. Most students have the political attention span of a fly.

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  • Lefty leaning right
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 1:56pm

    I don’t see anyone tied or handcuffed, if you going to sit there to make your point for a photo then have a gas!

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  • bama54m
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 1:55pm

    These guys are in training to become,,grown up Union thugs,,they may get a purple shirt for Christmas !

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  • Laus Deo
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 1:54pm

    Quick!! Grab your pepper cans! They’re all lined up and begging for it!

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    • ambsie
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 1:59pm

      These brainwashed so called students, they were warned in advance they would be peppered sprayed, they chose to stay and take it.

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  • AmericanStrega
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 1:46pm

    From the article, I’m really not sure what the protestors were protesting. But, remaining silent, in my opinion, was louder than shouting stooooopid slogans and beating drums. (BTW, I am not in ANY way for these OWS losers. My opinion is the strong presence of these “students” without saying a word, perhaps gave this woman some food for thought.) Interesting.

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  • BrerRabbit
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 1:37pm

    Now just how would they like for the officers to get them to move. I’d probably used dogs but pepper spray seems like a better option. Of courrse, the could have also just let them continue to break the law making a mockery out of law abiding folks.

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  • AmericanStrega
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 1:37pm

    From the look on her face, her pucker-factor was REALLY high!

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  • lukerw
    Posted on November 20, 2011 at 1:28pm

    The Students are protesting… Higher Tuition… to pay for their Communist Indoctrination by Radical Professors!

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 1:39pm

      I wonder if she was afraid?

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    • RLTW
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 1:48pm

      Wow, they sure showed her, told her what for.

      They are legion

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