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I can't believe how many of you are in favor of what the police did because they were blocking a walkway. The reaction was extreme. It was a peaceful protest not a riot. So I guess if you see a sign saying "keep off the grass" and you walk on it you are breaking the law. And if the police tell you to get off and you don't then they can just pepper spray you. I guess some don't find fault with this either. So I guess I better stop jaywalking too I think we have some overzealous cops here.
Uh, jaywalking is a crime. I'm not sure if there are laws about staying off the grass when there's a sign saying keep off the grass.
Regardless, your opinion of the law's usefulness (or pettiness) is irrelevant. It is a law, and it can be enforced.
Police have use of force policies - when you refuse to comply with verbal commands by the police, you have now required that the police resort to force in order to do their job. What force they use and when is dependent on use of force policies.
These protesters got exactly what they wanted - they interlocked arms because they knew they were breaking the law, and they knew the police would try to enforce the law.
No, I don't think the protestors wanted it, the police have a brain also, it's not like we were at war or these protestors were a threat or bunch of dogs.
My opinion is that pepper spaying a group of people that didn't move when told is not the same as someone who has committed a violent crime and needed to be stopped. And yes that is my personal mindset as yours seems to want to go to war.
They could care less, if the police shot them all in the leg rather than use the pepper spray it would be alright with these people and they'd sleep well that night as long as its the law.....for a non criminal offense
They weren't bored. They were pretty excited, showing up in riot gear and everything. Ooooh, lookie here, we got ourselves students camping out on the quad, thinking they are some big-time protesters. And we are going to show them. They don't get to protest on OUR campus, we're the authority here, we'll show them, yessiree, who's boss around here. I think that attitude was pretty well expressed by a campus police officer striding up and down a line of students sitting and kneeling in front of him, as he sprayed a chemical compound on them, point-blank, wrangling with several students who tried to avoid getting sprayed in the face, double-dosing some of them. Yessiree, he showed them who was boss.
Yessiree its those frames of minds that are ruling this country.
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I think we have some overzealous cops here.
You're right about that and all of that 
