UC Davis Not an Isolated Incident, It’s Part of the Culture War
The police violence on display at UC Davis this Friday is not the first of its kind in response to the Occupy Wall Street movement. As I wrote yesterday, a similar incident involving police beating protesters at UC Berkeley happened this past Tuesday. There have been numerous other incidents as well, from Seattle to Portland toOakland to New York City and elsewhere.
In some ways, I see these police clashes with protesters as a physical manifestation of the culture war. Indeed, as much as the Occupy movement is about economic inequality, it too is just a larger manifestation of the culture war. This was painfully obvious when the ‘We Are the 53%” Tumblr came out.
Garance Franke-Ruta has a round-up of these police excesses at The Atlantic. She writes:
Just over two months old, it has succeed in changing the terms of the national debate about