Student response to UCDavis Chancellor after Occupy abuse (video)

[Bring4th_Austin]

Its never that cut and dried in situations like this. You're watching a video and drawing conclusions based on your own biases.

Ah, yes, isn't that what we always do, as long as bias is present?

Were all the police brutal? We're all her actions self serving? Was there love in every action and thought of every student?

No, no, no.

Or were they taking great satisfaction in causing someone fear or shame? Or was the woman in question, taking joy that the situation got out of hand and she had be brutal..or was she saddened that things go to this point, but felt the need to put on a face for the press and the world?

I'm sure that some of them got some satisfaction in inducing the shame, feeling like they were doing some sort of justice rather than expressing their discontent. However, I don't think that she was either joyful nor saddened. She did initially support the actions of the police officers. She was the one who ordered increased force on peaceful protesters.

The whole situation appears to be a mish-mash of human emotion and action. Something that got out of hand by individuals making a personal decision and the blame falls on someone who issued orders that were mis-interpreted.

I don't think the orders were misinterpreted. Like I said, she initially supported the actions of the police officers.

But who must shoulder the blame because thats the way humans seem to be wired. There is a lot of judgment on both sides being thrown around.

It might be about finding someone to blame for many people, but is complacency going to solve anything? Is expressing discontent for the way peers are are treated, for what was essentially a forceful silencing of peaceful expression, wrong? She is the one who gave the order, she is the one who defended the actions of the police officers, so of course one would think that, to stop that kind of behavior, she is the one we go to to express discontent.