Violence erupts as UC Berkeley protests continue

Published on Friday, November 20, 2009
Last updated on 11:12AM, Saturday, November 21, 2009
UC Berkeley cop draws his baton and strikes protestors today.

UC Berkeley cop draws his baton and strikes protestors today.

Today students at the University of California, Berkeley barricaded themselves into the Wheeler Building to protest the substantial tuition and fee hike at UC Berkeley. As of this writing, the standoff continues.

In the early afternoon, YouTube user Kurtjimi27 uploaded a video of UC Berkeley policy striking protesters:

Here are the latest posts to the Twitter hashtag #UCBprotest:

 

The hashtag #UCstrike is aggregating strike-related tweets across the University of California system.

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