VIDEO: UC Berkeley Students Violently Stop White People from Crossing Bridge By Tyler O’Neil
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/10/27/video-uc-berkeley-students-shut-down-bridge-to-white-people/
Protesters at the University of California Berkeley shut down a bridge, preventing white people from crossing it. The protesters then posted an “eviction notice” on a campus building, and finally paraded through the student union and the campus entrance, disrupting students who were trying to study and blocking traffic in a central intersection.
A group of about 100 students united to block one side of a bridge, chanting, “Go around! Go around!” to any white people in the area. One black protester told a white student trying to cross, “I’m telling you, this isn’t about you. This is about whiteness, this is not about you. We don’t care about you.”
This new “safe space” segregation forced white students to go around the bridge, crossing Strawberry Creek below it.
Members of the University of California Police Department (UCPD) gathered to provide safety, and they gave helpful directions to white people who were physically prevented from crossing the bridge.
A lead protester shouted profanities at UCPD, even as the police had gathered to guarantee her safety. “Berkeley, why the f**k do you let UCPD do what they want with our bodies?” the protester belted, perhaps referring to the Black Lives Matter claims that police abuse people of color. “I’m talking to you, UCPD, I don’t give a f**k about you!”
Next Page: Eviction Notice!
YouTube screenshot of a protester placing an “Eviction Notice” sign on a building on the UC-Berkeley campus.After a long period of blocking the bridge, the protesters moved on to the student store, which they blockaded. One of the students climbed up on the building and posted an “eviction notice,” which claimed that the students of UC Berkeley had the authority to shut down the building and to occupy it themselves. Here are some snippets:
You are hereby notified by the students of the University of California, Berkeley to vacate the premises immediately. University administration wrongly allocated this two-story facility to a third-party corporation, keeping in line with its intensifying legacy of prioritizing financial profit over student needs.We demand, instead, that the university facilitate the expansion of the bridges and QARC (Queer Alliance Resource Center) spaces into this two-story facility … These spaces have been chosen by students based on the need for visibility, accessibility, and adequacy of size … The work that these student-run spaces to produce and recruit students of color and provide support for the LGBTQIIA+ student community is invaluable and must be affirmed by the university.
If you fail to vacate immediately, community action will continue to escalate with the goal of eliminating any revenue generation. This space exclusion is one step in an ongoing process to remedy the historical devaluation of students of color and LGBTQIA+ students.
This was not an official document, but the protesters deemed themselves worthy of making such demands, despite their inability to decide whether the ever-expanding alphabet soup of the LGBT movement required one or two Is.
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