Occupy Berkeley is an ongoing series of demonstrations in Berkeley, California based in front of a Bank of America. It is an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
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On November 9, 2011, police used violence to clear Sproul Plaza, beating Robert Hass, his wife Brenda Hillman, faculty Celeste Langan and Geoffrey O’Brien at an Occupy Berkeley protest.[1] This use of force gained national recognition, which is controversial for many affiliated. [2]
Hass wrote a New York Times opinion article about the beating.[3]
Jim Chanin said:
"Using a baton to go through a nonviolent crowd is as inappropriate today as it was in the South when they used it to enforce segregation in the 1960s" [4]