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UC Report: How To Avoid Violent Altercations With Protesters in the Future - Davis, CA Patch

UC Report: How To Avoid Violent Altercations With Protesters in the Future - Davis, CA Patch:


UC Report: How To Avoid Violent Altercations With Protesters in the Future

If the UC system improves one thing to avoid future violent confrontations with student protesters, it should be communications.
That’s according to a report released Friday, written by Christopher Edley Jr., the dean of Berkeley Law, and Charles Robinson, the UC system's vice president and general counsel.
“Back in November, videos of campus police striking student demonstrators with batons at UC Berkeley and using pepper spray on seated protesters at UC Davis circulated the Internet catching the