Berkeley Beatings Police Captain: Linking Arms is Violence

If you haven't seen this footage, it was originally broken on Kos by Horace Boothroyd III.

Well, the police explained that they weren't looking for cameras, they looked at the linked arms, and decided that linking your arms with someone else is, in fact, violence.

"The individuals who linked arms and actively resisted, that in itself is an act of violence," UC police Capt. Margo Bennett said. "I understand that many students may not think that, but linking arms in a human chain when ordered to step aside is not a nonviolent protest."

SF Chronicle

So linking your arms is violence, and justifies this:

Right.

Because it's the STUDENTS who are the violent ones here.

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