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Police raid U of Toronto in clash with G20 protesters

Posted on June 27, 2010 by | Comments Off on Police raid U of Toronto in clash with G20 protesters

AP: Police arrest more than 500 at Toronto summit

Police raided a university building and rounded up more protesters Sunday in an effort to quell further violence at the global economic summit after black-clad youths rampaged through the city, smashing windows and torching police cruisers. Police said they have arrested more than 500 demonstrators, many of whom were hauled away in plastic handcuffs and taken to a temporary holding center constructed for the summit…Thousands of police headed to Toronto to reinforce security there after the smaller Group of Eight summit ended Saturday in Huntsville, Ontario, about 140 miles (225 kilometers) away. Security was being provided by an estimated 19,000 law enforcement officers drawn from across Canada, and security costs were estimated at more than US$900 million

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New Jersey Sheriff Scolded for Confronting Professor in Classroom

Posted on February 23, 2010 by | Comments Off on New Jersey Sheriff Scolded for Confronting Professor in Classroom

The Chronicle: New Jersey Sheriff Scolded for Confronting Professor in Classroom

Some students at Mercer County Community College, in central New Jersey, watched the political become personal recently when the local sheriff entered a classroom to confront a professor who had mentioned him in an unfavorable light.

The college’s president, Patricia C. Donohue, last week issued a statement saying that Sheriff Kevin C. Larkin had violated the college’s policy against visitors’ entering classes in session without the approval of the instructor.

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Arrests End Building Takeover at San Francisco State

Posted on December 11, 2009 by | Comments Off on Arrests End Building Takeover at San Francisco State

San Francisco Chronicle: Police break up building takeover at S.F. State

(12-10) 13:28 PST SAN FRANCISCO — Police arrested 25 protesters early Thursday at San Francisco State University, a day after students barricaded themselves inside the business school to protest fee hikes and budget cuts at California’s public universities.

Campus police in riot gear, joined by officers from throughout the California State University police system and San Francisco police, entered the business administration building at 3:15 a.m., said university spokeswoman Ellen Griffin.

Some of the officers broke windows to get inside because protesters had blocked doors, authorities said.

Police arrested 12 protesters inside the building on suspicion of trespassing, a misdemeanor, Griffin said. There may have been more people who slipped away, she said.

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Debate Rages in Greece About Right of Police to Enter University Campuses

Posted on December 9, 2009 by | Comments Off on Debate Rages in Greece About Right of Police to Enter University Campuses

The New York Times: Debate Rages in Greece About Right of Police to Enter University Campuses

A new wave of violent attacks against academics is sweeping campuses in Athens and Thessaloniki, leading Greek professors to question a law that bans police officers from entering university grounds.

The law exists nowhere else in Europe, but it has been sacrosanct in Greece since the fall of a military dictatorship that bloodily suppressed a student rebellion at the Athens Polytechnic in 1973 in which at least 23 people were killed.

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Berkeley to Review Police Response to Protests

Posted on November 24, 2009 by | Comments Off on Berkeley to Review Police Response to Protests

The Chronicle: Berkeley to Review Police Response to Protests

The University of California at Berkeley announced on Monday that it would review police actions during a large protest on Friday, responding to accusations that the police used unnecessary force in trying to control a crowd that had gathered outside a main academic building, Wheeler Hall, to assail a 32-percent tuition increase approved last week by the Board of Regents amid widespread protests that culminated in arrests. “Any tactics to exercise crowd control on campus must provide a safe platform for expression of free speech and freedom of assembly, and we expect that, as a result of this review, modifications will be made,” the university said in a written statement.

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Police deployed at Zululand U

Posted on November 8, 2009 by | Comments Off on Police deployed at Zululand U

The Mercury: Police deployed at Zululand U

A student mob burned and trashed parts of the University of Zululand yesterday, resulting in tens of millions of rands in damage.

Security on the campus has been beefed up after the rampage, with more police officers deployed there.

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Second Harvard professor accuses police of bias

Posted on August 6, 2009 by | Comments Off on Second Harvard professor accuses police of bias

Boston Globe: Second professor accuses police of bias

A second black Harvard professor accused the Cambridge police of racism yesterday in wrongfully arresting him outside his home nearly three years ago.

S. Allen Counter, a prominent Harvard Medical School professor and head of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, spoke about his arrest on assault and battery charges in an editorial published yesterday with The Bay State Banner. The disclosure follows last month’s high-profile arrest of renowned African-American scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Cops dump MIT student paper

Posted on March 30, 2009 by | Comments Off on Cops dump MIT student paper

Boston Globe: MIT suspends 2 police officers
Newspaper copies with arrest story were dumped

Two MIT police officers, apparently unhappy with the student newspaper’s coverage of a fellow officer’s recent arrest for drug trafficking, did the only thing they could think of to block the bad news: They trashed it.

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