Police Brutality at UC Riverside

Campus Cops Brutalize Peaceful Students Protesting Tuition Hikes at UC Riverside

 Students at UC Riverside worried about past and future fee hikes attended a Regents meeting last Thursday to voice their concerns. However, despite the rights of attendees to a democratic, open-to-the-public meeting, students say they were summarily silenced—and that protesters outside the meeting were brutally attacked by police with batons and shot with non-lethal bullets—a point that went unmentioned in most reports, but one clearly backed up by video. Marc Lombardo, one of the student protesters in attendance, told AlterNet:    Read more

By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

Cop Art and Pepper Spray

Cop Art: The Rise of the Citizen Satirist
Adam Bessie, Truthout: "Our citizen satirists, who have made Pike pepper spray the innocent across history, who have made him the ‘New Face of Evil,’ who have turned him into a transcendent allegory of oppression, have captured the spirit of injustice, keeping our outrage aflame longer and brighter than it might with the images by themselves."
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Egypt: Police beat elderly female activist

Al Masry al Youm reports:

Internet users are circulating a video that appears to show members of Egypt's army assaulting an older female activist called Khadiga al-Hennawy.

Hennawy was near the cabinet building on Qasr al-Aini Street on Friday when clashes erupted between protesters and security forces.

In the video, two officers are seen dragging Hennawy by the hair. One lets go of her hair to kick her, before other officers join in, beating her with batons and dragging her out of view.

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