UC Berkeley Cop insulting protester with Asperger's Syndrome

by Nate (Oaks4Peace)

Fri, Mar 14, 2008 11:41AM

UC Berkeley Police Officer Hernandez insulting protester (from UC Berkeley Tree Sit) who has Asperger's Syndrome.

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UC Berkeley Police officer Hernandez insulting protester (from UC Berkeley Tree Sit) knowing the protester has Asperger's Syndrome.

Protester was also assaulted by UCB Police Officer Aranes in a previous incident.

http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2008-02-01/article/29082

To share your concerns about how disabled protesters are treated, contact Mitch Celaya, Assistant Chief of UCB-PD at mjc [at] berkeley.edu

April is Asperger's Awareness Month.

- Nate (never ever 'Forrest')

For more information: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzm5LuADNts

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§What About The Rest?

by Dragon Lover

Fri, Mar 14, 2008 2:25PM

So what about the rest? How do we know that is a cop talking, there is no face in the video. Do we have a case of one chunk of conversation that was not intended as insulting but someone chose to take it that way? People need to grow an epidermis and learn not all careless comments are an insult and get all bent out of shape.

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§Correction

by Nate (Oaks4Peace)

Fri, Mar 14, 2008 8:56PM

Yes, I forgot to clarify. You can tell its Hernandez because you can test his voice against other videos with him in it. You know it's me, because, well... its me. Again, test the voice against other videos from the collection. I will put that clarification on the youtube video description.

This is a teaser trailer. There's more to come for the entire human rights project. I'm releasing what I can when I can.

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