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Chancellor Katehi Claims Her Police Force Disobeyed Her; So Why Is She Still Chancellor?

Linda Katehi (photo: The National Academy of Sciences)

Linda Katehi claimed in a wide-ranging Sacramento Bee interview — in her office in the still-closed-to-the-public Administration Building — that her own police force no longer respects her authority. The UC/Davis Chancellor and global handmaiden to authoritarians made the best arguments for her own swift removal. Using the royal “we” to describe the orders she gave her militarized police force, Katehi showed that her authority and leadership are hollow:

“We told the police to remove the tents or the equipment,” Katehi said in an interview with The Bee