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UC Berkeley to Investigate Police Brutality in Protests

1:58 pm By la Macha · California

24 Nov 2009

And speaking of the upheaval in the University of California system, Democracy Now! has some really important updates about the protests that happened after the UC board voted to increase tuition rates by over 30%.

Forty students were arrested Friday night after campus police entered Wheeler Hall, which the students had taken over earlier in the day. The students were part of a statewide movement protesting the UC Board of Regents decision to raise tuition by 32 percent. Students at UCLA, UC-Davis, UC Santa Cruz and San Francisco State also took over campus buildings last week.

On Monday, more than 200 students rallied at Wheeler Hall in Berkeley to protest against what they called overtly aggressive tactics by the police. Organizers say officers hit demonstrators with batons and fired rubber bullets.

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