UCSC Dance Party Assaulted

Sounds like the cops did their jobs! You guys can't put things in the road to block the path of a police, even if you feel he's following you "unjustly" (you should have just filmed the offending officers conduct and given it to his/her superior, or let it slip to the media) That said though, you do NOT have the right to interfere with an officer in any way. Once you guys grow up a little bit you'll come to realize we have laws and rules in our society. You have to follow those laws and rules. If you dislike them, go live some where else where there are either laws to your liking, or maybe no laws- such as Afghanistan, or Somalia. You can also have the laws changed if you feel that strongly about it. But just breaking the ones you don't like/agree with is not a realistic option. You at least need to be ready to suffer the consequences if you do break the laws, and bitching and moaning about it afterwards is just plain immature! You guys ARE university students after all though- and are notoriously whiny! And you guys wonder why no one but other students take students seriously.

A word of advice from someone who's "been there, done that" I was a student activist, just like a lot of you guys.-And not just in ultra-liberal Santa Cruz where it's so easy to be an activist it's a joke!!- ~Grow the hell up already!

I don't want to hear your god damn noise.

All the actions taken in history that broke the law in an act of civil disobedience for whatever cause should not have taken place. (so rosa parks should've sat the fuck down in the back of the bus...) And if you really want to change "laws" or "rules" then apparently you have to do it the "legal" way.

So, slaves should've never tried to escape. Students should never go on strike, same for workers, etc etc.

Also, I don't see any whining, bitching or complaining in the above article. Just the fact that people were trying to have a dance party, cops decided to be cops and try and observe/control/surveil us, people didn't like that and tried to stop it, cops for whatever reason (maybe they got scared? freaked out? wanted to usurp control?) started assaulting people.

Oh and "student", do you not like to dance? do you not like to have fun? for one night can you chill and accept your fellow peers having a dance party outside? What, were you trying to study on a friday night?

...I think that "student" was referring to the comment by Sean Reilly, because, obviously, that comment contained only noise. Reilly, if you chose to talk, please make sure that actual, coherent, noises come out of your mouth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig0pK0uMCPU

I need to know more information about this in order to make a judgment. This could be a bunch of drunken dorm kids at the University of Oregon. The video is pretty flashy

How can you compare a bunch of students having a "Dance Party" to a civil rights movement? What were you guys doing, standing up for your right to dance? Its very telling how self involved (and ignorant, for that matter) you guys are that you would even try to draw a parallel between the two! What Rosa Parks did also never rose to fighting with the police either! Furthermore, what did they, the civil rights marchers, do after all else failed mind you? They got the laws changed! Sometimes there are good reasons for acts of civil disobedience, this time, I'm sorry, was not one of them! You guys aren't living in the sixties, sorry!! I know you students feel empty, bored and probably a little jealous that its hard to find a good cause to protest for nowadays, especially in Santa Cruz. However bored and misguided you all are, that doesn't give you an excuse to just break the laws you don't like, and do whatever you want. If you do, be prepared to suffer some consequences! That's the other thing about civil disobedience, generally its done knowing full well you'll be arrested, then using the arrest to shed light on the cause, injustice or whatever the issue maybe. That's the idea though, to get arrested! The point of it -civil disobedience- is not to get arrested and then whine about how unfair it is that you got arrested. It also speaks volumes about the maturity level of you guys that you'll break the laws, knowing full well you're doing so, and then bitching and moaning about it afterwards!

The vast majority of UCSC student are perceived as a joke, and are NEVER taken seriously by the rest of us who live in the real world! (Not in the little bubble/bizzarro world you guys have constructed up there) This incident and the many like are the reason that this is the case, and you all have no one to blame for it but yourselves! Like I've said before- GROW THE F**K UP ALREADY!!

Guys, seriously though, U.C.S.C. Is not a nightclub, I was actually trying to study that night. Your party didn't disturb me, but it could've and probably did disturb my friends and other students who are there to get educations. Freakn expensive ones too!!!!! On a serious note though, if ya guys and girls wanted to dance and party, go down to a nightclub in downtown! There's a shitload of em!! Then ya wouldn't be pissing of anyone, pigs or otherwise!!

..the relevant part being when the girl calls the protesters "underage bitches". Definitely translates to the UC situation.

You're getting stale in your tactics. What is this, like the third year in a row you've instigated some stupid "action" to start the year off? The third year its been an innocent little dance when the cops went nuts and you were just innocent victims?

Let's see, there was the Humanities one last fall, the labor day one, and now this. Ayup, 3.

Sean Reilly wants to jump to conclusions about UCSC students, but I don't think any of the people arrested this time were students. Sure, some people leading these protests are former students who never left the area but mostly they seem to be to be people from town who just want to trash things and are looking for crowd cover.

I agree that they are outside idiots that caused this. Press releases say two arrested were not students, one from Truckee and the other from S. Lake Tahoe ( must be the thin air up there!) and one student was arrested. But as long as these losers are allowed to cause this kind of mess by real students, the real world, ( read: taxpayers ) will lump all UCSC students into the same pile of vile. You don't have to like it or even agree with it, but it's the perception from the rest of us and real or not, perception had become truth! So until the other 14,900 "students" who are fed up with this stand up and kick occupyca and their followers off campus once and for all, be prepared to be constantly associated with every action they take and be referred to as " ucsc whiners etc." Congratulations on another Epic Failure!

The facts speak for themselves! At least one of the arrested WERE in fact students at UCSC! How many other STUDENTS were involved, but were not arrested? The sad fact is, like other people have posted here (not just me mind you), is that you real STUDENTS are the ones inviting theses yahoos up there. You real STUDENTS are the one's who need to dis-associate yourselves with the trouble makers. Otherwise, people wrongly or rightly are going to assume you're pretty much all in favor of that type of criminal behavior (I of course realize not ALL students are trouble makers, quite the opposite actually). And yes drinking in public and assaulting a police officer is criminal behavior!! Once you kids GROW UP you'll realize this. You can't just break the laws you don't like, act however you want to act, then act outraged, oppressed and persecuted when held responsible and accountable for your actions. Once you guys go to trial (which we all know you will because owning up to what you did is clearly out of the question) you had better hope good folks like the people in the rest of Santa Cruz are NOT on your jury! We'll throw the book at you!

Thank you UCSC police for allowing students to study and sleep without having to listen to these "dance parties."

That's because Rosa Parks would have been shot, that, and the story that you heard growing up was biased. She was actually a young activist, who planned the strike.

I guess you need all the extra time studying, your spelling is atrocious, but I wouldn't waste any more of your parents money. There is no hope for you.