Violent Rioters Clash With Police at UC Berkeley

KGO-TV: Riot police at UC Berkeley have regained control after a night of chaos. It began with protestors taking over a building, and then fires, fights and vandalism broke out in the streets.

The protest was over tuition hikes in the UC and CSU systems. It began at Durant Hall around 11:30 p.m. Thursday night. The hall, which is under construction, was taken over by a couple of dozen demonstrators who broke windows, sprayed graffiti and used a sound system. They blocked the entrances from police with dumpsters.

"We are looking at some damage to the skylights up top, there is graffiti throughout the building and windows that have been broken out," said UC Berkeley police Capt. Margo Bennett.

February 26, 2010 at 11:35 am - KGO-TV
Dateline: Berkeley, CA
doogle   February 26th, 2010 - 11:40 am

numbnuts…that should make tuition go down.

jaw   February 26th, 2010 - 11:43 am

Pointless–and a real shame.

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Kaspir   February 26th, 2010 - 11:43 am

That’s bright…I’m sure tuition will only go down when they’ve got big repair bills for the campus…and the cops overtime…well thought out kids…glad that education is working for you…nice job.

Kaspir   February 26th, 2010 - 11:44 am

Ditto Doogle, didn’t mean to be redundant, your comment wasn’t up when I started…lolz

duh_swami   February 26th, 2010 - 11:44 am

Shades of the ‘peoples Parks riots…If they keep it up it’s time for the ‘blue meanies’ to make an appearance…

Dave, Tn   February 26th, 2010 - 11:49 am

ahhh little parasite going after the big parasites and leftist utopia burns. too bad

Lake   February 26th, 2010 - 11:49 am

Was it the students or their parents rioting? Maybe the parents were on the phone with the kids telling them how it was done back in “the day”

mojo   February 26th, 2010 - 11:50 am

Violent-prone liberals, protesting the fruits of their own policies. There will be more to come.

These are more “cargo cult” socialist/liberals who believe free stuff just shows up, and don’t know how things really work. This is just the beginning for the folks in California, and it’s all their own fault. Vote them out, or move to Nevada while you can folks.

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Pattieb   February 26th, 2010 - 11:54 am

Hum, let’s see………damage to campus equals ? thousands of dollars and these nimrods are protesting because of cuts to programs because of lack of said money. Honestly, you just don’t get stupider than this. A big thanks to the ultra liberal professors that are teaching these little jerks.

Buford T Justice   February 26th, 2010 - 11:56 am

The irony is soooo delicious – The 60’s radical nutjobs protested on college campuses against the “establishment”…..now the 60’s radical nutjobs ARE THE ESTABLISHMENT.

We’ll see how tolerant the 60’s radical nutjob establishment types like Nazi Pelosi are with “disruptors” vandalizing monuments to the 60’s radical nutjobs like UC Berkeley.

Methinks….not so much!

Capital Ideas   February 26th, 2010 - 12:03 pm

Let them eat cake. Big government kills.

Liberty Lover   February 26th, 2010 - 12:10 pm

NOTICE : THESE RIOTERS WERE LEFTIST NOT TEAPARTY MEMBERS .
it has been and will remain the left doing the Violent acts ,

ArizonaHoss   February 26th, 2010 - 12:15 pm

Was that “occupy” spelled “ocuppy?” Welcome to higher ed. in the US.

Kit   February 26th, 2010 - 12:17 pm

At 1:48, on the wall: OCUPPY (sic) EVERY THING.

Idiots…and you just proved it. Glad you’re in California….now stay there….!

White guy   February 26th, 2010 - 12:22 pm

Are these the extreme far right facist hate mongerering racist tea party supporters the media has beed warning us about?

Ahhh nope!

liberal hater   February 26th, 2010 - 12:29 pm

They say I’m stupid because I don’t have a college education, but at least I can spell!

Gandhi's Fist   February 26th, 2010 - 12:31 pm

Leftists, guaranteed. Wonder if that dope–big sis–thinks these miscreants are a concern?

ozarksprof   February 26th, 2010 - 12:32 pm

“ocuppy” graffiti at 01:48. We can see that the best and brightest at one of the “premier” universities (at least in their own minds) are the fine products of the self-esteem educational system pioneered in California, and soon to be enacted nationwide when the DoED takes over education here in the USA under Obama’s policy initiatives. What a positive intellectual expression (misspelled graffiti, property destruction). At least they feel better about themselves.

Harry   February 26th, 2010 - 12:40 pm

I guess Obama didn’t keep his promise, so they took things in their own hands.

If they want lower tuition rates, just go to school somewhere else. There are other options!

Fob Feckel   February 26th, 2010 - 12:44 pm

Too bad there is not a draft.

Fallon   February 26th, 2010 - 12:45 pm

“At 1:48, on the wall: OCUPPY (sic) EVERY THING.”

And, earlier at 1:25 “Bulliten”.

It looks like tuition isn’t the only thing they need to raise, they need to raise their standards. Or, maybe, it’s time to shut down Berkley and send these kids back to high school.

Bawney Fwank   February 26th, 2010 - 12:48 pm

They’ll make great Workers under the Obamunist Utopia!

vpats   February 26th, 2010 - 12:56 pm

wanna play a guessing game? OK, how many of these clowns voted for Obama last year?

katy   February 26th, 2010 - 12:57 pm

The entitlement generation + the anarchist infiltration = complete meltdown!

Charles   February 26th, 2010 - 12:58 pm

hmm, wonder if the libs will show this as act of justified liberal outrage? And yet they go after “peaceful” Tea Party people who act NOTHING like this to present their opposition to Obama.

Tatiana   February 26th, 2010 - 1:02 pm

My family owns a restaurant right in the middle of this mess. I will suggest that they offer an “Economic Collapse” special. Hmmm. What should that be? Beans? Caviar and champagne?

notasheeple   February 26th, 2010 - 1:09 pm

Raise their Frick-in tution to pay for the clean up and damage they caused. Messiah-Obama and all his other Marxist-Radicals must be sooooo proud of this generation.

Scotty the enforcer   February 26th, 2010 - 1:11 pm

I do believe tuition is a bit lower in Mexico..and the really good thing, most of them already qualify for admission! You know… I’d like to go to another country and milk it for what i can get… March in the streets in broad daylight to show my dispproval of them wanting to send me home…and then I’d like to vandalize and burn their learning institutions when they say I can no longer go there for free (or close to free).. Yeah… I think I’d like to try that and see how it works..seems to be working for them….but as I comtemplate that move.. I realize there’s only one place on the planet like that… HERE.

WRAP EM UP AND SEND EM HOME!

sage   February 26th, 2010 - 1:11 pm

laughing at Berkeley, they are getting what they deserve for breeding these fools in the first place! the fascism they teach kids is being used against them, what did they expect would be the outcome of their indoctrination?

Kit   February 26th, 2010 - 1:18 pm

T.L.B.–Typical Liberal Behavior.

Kinda like a 2yr whizzing in his sandbox and then crying for new sand.

Joe   February 26th, 2010 - 1:22 pm

Ha Ha!! I love it. Brainwashed liberals destroying the very thing that they support. What morons!!

BigMIke252   February 26th, 2010 - 1:25 pm

OMG! The Hippies are back!

People still trying to re-live the 60’s tsk tsk tsk

Will   February 26th, 2010 - 1:27 pm

UC Berkeley : Evidence of why the mothers of some eat their young .

foo   February 26th, 2010 - 1:27 pm

UC Berkley students not wanting mandatory, government-enacted tuition hikes? WHy that doesn’t sound like the UC Berkley I know. Idiot kids.

SanFranciscoGo   February 26th, 2010 - 1:32 pm

Must be the wrong video, since smart (oxymoron alert) socialists are “people of peace”.

natb1   February 26th, 2010 - 1:34 pm

Get used to this. These are the new generation of revolutionaries.

Clive   February 26th, 2010 - 1:45 pm

No one said you have to go to college.

Greg   February 26th, 2010 - 1:46 pm

Oh this is priceless…. I cannot wait to see how they behave when they get the bill for Oblameblame’s first year in office!!

Gandhi's Fist   February 26th, 2010 - 1:48 pm

If they don’t like tuition hikes, just wait till they get their health care bill.

Greg   February 26th, 2010 - 1:48 pm

This is priceless. I cannot wait to see how the behave when they get Oblameblame’s bill for his first year in office.

Lisa B.   February 26th, 2010 - 1:49 pm

This only shows you how stupid these college kids are. They will end up paying for the clean up with higher than ever tuition. Nice job….

Dave, Tn   February 26th, 2010 - 1:50 pm

Someone tell them where all those evil rich white people in Hollywood live. I hear you can buy maps bahahhahahaha

matalino   February 26th, 2010 - 1:56 pm

Gasp! Peace loving tree hugging berkeley students?

I don’t believe this…

jcrue   February 26th, 2010 - 1:58 pm

Have them protest their parents, they’re the ones responsible for putting California is such a mess by electing the people they do.

The entire state of CA deserves what they have to endure.

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MuckFexico   February 26th, 2010 - 2:09 pm

Dang. I was hoping this video would show me a few liberal commies getting their heads split open by the police.
Id love to see that!
Kind of like the treehugger hippies on youtube that chained themselves to something, then cried and screamed police brutality after the police used q-tips to drop pepper spray into their eyes!
Watching them cry and gasp was orgasmic!
The day of disagreeing with the left is over-they will have to be removed. Painfully. With extreme prejudice.
To save this country will take drastic actions, feelings will be hurt.
Its the only option left…
I hope everyone of those students gets killed by a gang of thugs. And that police captain? Does she look like an old hippy-commie or what?!
Oh yeah, youre in good hands there. Nuke Cali, its too late to save it. Anyone dumb enough to still be there deserves what they get.

Kevin Stowell   February 26th, 2010 - 2:10 pm

I suppose worse things could happen to the rest of us than UC Berkeley burning down.

dumbasslibhater   February 26th, 2010 - 2:22 pm

I’m sure that Princess Pelosi will show her crocodile tears again and condemn those violent teabaggers? Oops those violent tree-huggin Liberals! Not!

Superflex   February 26th, 2010 - 2:27 pm

Funny how when insurance premiums rise in Kalifornia, Obummer gets on his high horse, pulls out the TOTUS and decries how the insurance companies are evil.
I don’t hear any whining from the POTUS, speaker, or any libs about tuition rate increases of 40% a year.

ed357   February 26th, 2010 - 2:32 pm

A UC Berkeley UNDERGRADUATE education…………..$28,897 per year

A can of Rust-Oleum Black Spray Paint from Amazon…………$7.81

Not spell checking your GRAFFITI scrawling of “O C U P P Y”………PRICELESS.

ed357   February 26th, 2010 - 2:34 pm

BTW………WHY ONLY TWO (2) OF THE “LITTLE ANGELS” GETTING ARRESTED?

THE POLICE NEED TO DO THEIR JOB AND JAIL AS MANY AS THEY CAN.

RayOne   February 26th, 2010 - 2:35 pm

It is the 70s all over again.
The only problem is that the industrial base is ‘OFF SHORE’ and the jobs needed to pay for rebuilding is not there.
This may be romantic to folks living on the Hill in Washington, the rest will look more like the country of Greece.

Curmudgeon   February 26th, 2010 - 2:52 pm

Well, the leftists wanted “multicultural ethnic studies” propaganda “classes”
and tenure for their favorite radical commie profs, didn’t they? That costs
money, you know….

Paul Krugman - NY Times   February 26th, 2010 - 2:53 pm

Perfect example of the Left sporting their normal behavior. CAL doesn’t get it. The reason you tuition is going up is because the State is infested with illegal Mexican aliens & your Legislature is loaded down with drone Liberals! Get it???

claspur   February 26th, 2010 - 3:09 pm

Just goes to show you….they have it all, politically, and they still go nuts.
“Liberalism is a Mental Disorder.” _ Michael Savage

Steve   February 26th, 2010 - 3:10 pm

Darn these Teabaggers! Oh, wait… nevermind.

Tatu   February 26th, 2010 - 3:15 pm

Wait a minute! Aren’t those the peace lovers that will save the world? I guess controls of medical reason to smoke weed are kind of weak in CA. No wonder Pelosi is “their man.”

CrusaderPatriot   February 26th, 2010 - 3:15 pm

They should raise the tuition even higher to pay for the damage the idiots did. I do think the liberal professors are far overpaid causing high tuitions, however, this is the attitude the Democrat’s have fostered. So many of these idiots think they should receive everything free.

Mark from Savannah   February 26th, 2010 - 3:24 pm

Ah yes….typical response from those peace loving, anti-violent liberals at UC Berkeley!

shane2813   February 26th, 2010 - 3:27 pm

The Leftist Utopia falls apart. LMAO LMAO LMAO!!!! Poor little Leftists. LMAO!!!! MARXIST=DEMOCRATS=TERRORIST All the same LMAO!!!!

memyminegimme   February 26th, 2010 - 3:41 pm

“for the first time in my adult life, I can say I am proud” of Berkeley. Oh the horror, can you even imagine how much CO2 would have been emitted by the thrown fire extinguisher, had it exploded! These are the future leaders folks…..unless?

txmike   February 26th, 2010 - 3:55 pm

Power to the Ocuppy. Effin UC Berkeley morons.

Off Duty   February 26th, 2010 - 4:01 pm

How much ya wanna bet that most of the protesters do not even attend Berkeley? It is a campus surrounded by a big, mostly black, economically depressed ghetto, and academically it is nothing as radical a student body as it was decades ago. If anything, you’ll find a greater percentage of aging radical faculty than percentage of radical students there.

So….What’s the real story here? Note that the caption identifies the demonstrators as “protestors” and not as students. Next, the caption says that it began when…. “The hall, which is under construction, was taken over by a couple of dozen demonstrators who broke windows, sprayed graffiti and used a sound system”.

Berkeley has over ten thousand students. Methinks a whole lotta information has been left out of this story.

CommonSense   February 26th, 2010 - 4:01 pm

Quadruple their tuition and swap the rubber bullets for real ones…..handle it and call it a day.
Screw the whinning spoiled hippie off spring.

Peace Sister   February 26th, 2010 - 4:04 pm

Just a bunch of spoiled brats trying to find some meaning in their lives.

Peteo   February 26th, 2010 - 4:07 pm

Stop the video at the 1:48 mark to see how well the state’s money has been spent.

pig   February 26th, 2010 - 4:08 pm

Perhaps we should all riot over the impending tax hikes that are going to hit us all when the Bush tax cuts silently expire.

The Working Poor? Yeah, you’re going to get it too. The tax cuts keep many of you off the books.

We can trash Pelosi’s house first, then move from state to state trashing the democraps.

NewOrleansAnn   February 26th, 2010 - 4:58 pm

My favorite part of the video is the liberal idiots getting bashed by the police with the nightsticks.

They should be in cages. They act like animals. (My apolgies to animals)

Jon   February 26th, 2010 - 4:59 pm

I think Glen Beck sent them

Titus   February 26th, 2010 - 4:59 pm

The police acted stupidly. They should have thrown the crowd some weed and a guitar. They would all toke and sing kumbaya after which they would all return to their Mommy’s basement. (see South Park’s Cartman dealing with hippies)

USMC   February 26th, 2010 - 5:00 pm

Here we go again with those
racist Tea Party People LOL

Robert   February 26th, 2010 - 5:14 pm

Big Gov Liberal Students Attack Big Gov….priceless…er…not cuz its going to cost to clean up all that mess.

Scituate_tgr   February 26th, 2010 - 5:36 pm

Think Oberjerk will mention the lack of “diversity” in the protester makeup?

mulligans   February 26th, 2010 - 5:45 pm

It is obvious that “higher” education is pointless for these dunderheads.

asthedrivensnow   February 26th, 2010 - 5:58 pm

And just as white as they were back in the 70s.

asthedrivensnow   February 26th, 2010 - 6:07 pm

Scituate_tgr: He should mention the “lack of diversity.” Interesting that Off Duty brought up the fact that the campus is “surrounded by a mostly black….ghetto.” Don’t know how that contributed to the mostly white rioters. If you figure that out let us know.

brentstorts   February 26th, 2010 - 6:26 pm

LOL What you sow is what you reap.

Michelle   February 26th, 2010 - 6:40 pm

Social justis at work ~ where was Ayers? His minions are doing his bidding ~ he’s so proud in his ivory tower ~ or did he go to bed early with his metamucile and a good readers digest? So proud of your sons and daughters alum?

Mike   February 26th, 2010 - 6:43 pm

Capitalism anyone? How many jobs will be made cleaning up after the white trash? Live with what you have wrought Berkley ~ I’ll tell my kids about you someday when you are so OVER

conservativet   February 26th, 2010 - 7:46 pm

Nice children. These are the children who their parents were their best friends. They are liberals. Only liberals are violent.

Toch   February 26th, 2010 - 9:51 pm

Guys/Gals, Janet Napolitano will say that they are not Hippies or protesters. Due to the fact that they may be U.S. citizens, they are deemed terrorists.

WORTHLESS AHOLES   February 26th, 2010 - 10:52 pm

Worthless, self-centered little schmucks! EXPELL THEM & JAIL THEM! They need a strong dose of REALITY.

buford   February 26th, 2010 - 11:19 pm

The liberals are pissed because their liberal ideas caused the school to raise rates. What do they do about it. The destroy the school which will make their tuition grow even higher. I love this liberals. I hope they choke on debt.

Drano   February 26th, 2010 - 11:39 pm

OMG !!! They want me to PAY for what I use??? OMFG !!

It’s unAmerican, like, like, like, it’s just not right !!

lol

lol

John Galt   February 27th, 2010 - 12:07 am

As a graduate of Berkeley, I am not surprised. Students will have to learn that as long as the government subsidizes the loans for higher education, the fees for these schools will continue to rise to the equilibirum between school fees and the debt load capability of the family unit. The school gets rich, the government claims a gift to the people. Students and/or their parents get further into debt. It is an economic lesson that liberals do not understand. The same economic lesson applies to housing as well.

Separately, I remember walking into a bakery in Berkeley in the late ’80s. They had Chez, Sandanista and Mao posters up on the wall and $40 tarts behind the glass. That explained Berkeley in a nutshell.

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Dawgonitt   February 27th, 2010 - 10:46 am

All these Obozo Obamobot Obidiots are doing the destuction of this nation that americans won’t do. Need more Kool-Aid.

Army of Davids   February 27th, 2010 - 5:22 pm

Serves those violent Tea Party people….er….uh….what…..But they have their own party in power?……………………………………. Never mind.

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