Cal Poly Humboldt Offers a Timeline of Events, Reports $1.9 Million in Damages
Protesters stood toe to toe with law enforcement as dark fell on Pro Palestinian protests/occupation of Siemens Hall at Cal Poly Humboldt on Monday, April 22. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
The University wants to acknowledge that this has been an extremely challenging time for Cal Poly Humboldt. It has also been a very emotional time for our campus community and beyond, and we have much work in front of us to reset, rebuild, and heal. To clarify misinformation and rumors, here’s a timeline of the events beginning on April 22. We invite people to continue to ask questions and more information will be coming.
The University’s Time, Place, and Manner policy is content-neutral, approved by the University Senate, and fully supportive of First Amendment protections. In fact, this policy exists to protect freedom of speech and assembly while also protecting the rights of the entire campus community to a secure environment that is conducive to our educational purpose.
These approved policies, which have had extensive review, should be supported and enforced regardless of context. There is no First Amendment right to enter and occupy a building to stage a protest and it is a clear violation of the University’s Time, Place, and Manner policy.
- Multiple people called the University Police Department (UPD) concerned due to the actions of the people who were protesting in Siemens Hall on the first day of the protest. Several staff members asked the people who were protesting to leave the building prior to UPD arriving on the scene. The people who were protesting refused.
- UPD officers were inside the building with the people who were protesting and asked if they could facilitate a protest in the public space of the Quad , where it would have been a lawful assembly. Those requests were rebuffed by the people who were protesting.
- Tents in hallways and barricades were being assembled in front of exit doors, and vandalism of the building’s interior had already begun before UPD arrived.
- Students , faculty, and staff who were not part of the protest were evacuated with the assistance of UPD. Classes were canceled out of safety concerns because exits were already being barricaded.
- UPD ordered the people who were trespassing to leave the building. They refused to vacate the building and construction of barricades continued. UPD called for additional police presence on campus.
- Efforts to clear those barricades in the lobby were met with assault on officers. Police were attempting to enforce a lawful order, arrest those who were assaulting officers, and clear the building. Several people who were protesting and police officers were injured. Additional police officers were called from throughout the county.
- On the first night, administrators were told that if law enforcement was removed that the protesters would leave the building.
- The Provost, Vice Provost, and Dean Crane went into the building twice on Monday. The first time to check on the safety of the protesters, establish dialog, and to see if any needed medical attention. The people who were protesting offered a set of demands.
- The second time the Provost, Vice Provost and Dean Crane entered on Monday night was to announce that law enforcement was leaving the scene and that protesters could leave, as they agreed, without consequences. The people who were protesting shouted the Provost down and threw water at her.
- The UPD Chief of Police recommended that law enforcement depart. President Jackson concurred. Law enforcement left the scene. The people who were protesting then reneged on their promise to vacate the building and continued to build barricades.
- On Tuesday, the focus was on deescalation, and administrators waited for the protesters to keep their promise to leave the building. They refused. Efforts to dialog occurred throughout the day with the protesters both inside and outside the building. The people who were protesting refused to let any administrators into the building.
- After Tuesday, administrators realized the extent of the damage to the building and leaving without consequences was taken off the table. Nelson Hall East was then also occupied, doors were barricaded and protesters controlled who was allowed in or out of the building.
- Throughout the week, there were many attempts to get the protesters to agree to leave the buildings, beyond those efforts that were widely discussed. Faculty, staff, and administrators were actively talking with protesters throughout the week.
- We took the protesters’ demands seriously, and researched those demands and answered them to the best of our ability on the 26th of April.
- A total of 12 buildings were vandalized. The John Van Duzer Theatre, Music A, Art A, Founders Hall, Van Matre Hall, Harry Griffith Hall, Student Business Services, Forestry, and the Gutswurrak Student Activities Center were either broken into or attempted to be broken into. Several others were defaced. Fortunately University staff were able to retake these buildings.
- To date, the initial estimate is that there is more than $1.9M in financial impact, which includes physical damage to the campus and emergency operations. This number is not final due to the campus still assessing physical damage, costs to restore the damage, and gathering a full picture of the financial impact.
- It was difficult to dialog with the protesters to leave the building because there was no clear leadership. There were only a few students that began the protest that were on site during the arrests, which is what made ending the protest without arrest so difficult.
- More than half of those arrested were not students.
- The tagging and efforts to reoccupy buildings on campus have continued since the arrests, which is why the campus has not yet been reopened.
Two videos of the protest:
Earlier:
- Pro Palestinian Protesters Occupy Siemens Hall at Cal Poly
- From Campus to Courthouse: Pro-Palestinian Protesters Demand Release of Activists After Clashes at Cal Poly Humboldt
- Protestors Continue to Occupy Cal Poly Humboldt Buildings
- Anti-War Protestors Continue Occupation of Cal Poly Humboldt Building: Campus Closure Extended
- Letter From Student Urges Cal Poly Humboldt Leadership to Rethink Campus Closure and Facilitate Peaceful Protests
- Cal Poly Humboldt Extends Campus Closure Amid Ongoing Protests
- Anti-War Protestors Continue Occupation of Cal Poly Humboldt Building: Campus Closure Extended
- Cal Poly Humboldt Responds to Protesters Demands as Students Continue to Occupy Seimens Hall (Almost Five Days)
- Breaking News: Cal Poly Humboldt Announces Campus Closure and Shift to Remote Operations Until Semester’s End
- Safe Exit Offer: Cal Poly Humboldt Provides Opportunity for Occupants to Leave Buildings Without Immediate Arrest
- Sheriff Honsal Visits CPH as Protestors Opt Out of Safe Exit Offer; Siemens Hall Opens
- Cal Poly Humboldt Campus Sealed Off Amid Law Enforcement Buildup and Student Protests
- Student Unrest 54 Years Apart: Cal Poly Humboldt Protests Echo Historic Campus Activism
- ACLU in Humboldt County: Monitoring and Advocating for Rights at Cal Poly Humboldt
- The Convergence: Reports of Large Numbers of Law Enforcement Ramp Up Protest on Cal Poly Humboldt Campus
- Letter to the CSU Administration From Community Leaders Calls for Dialogue
- Blue Lake Rancheria Says It Faces Disruption as Pro-Palestine Protesters Target Businesses Over Alleged Law Enforcement Lodging
- Breaking News: Law Enforcement Warns Campus Protesters of Arrests and Possible Use of Force; Many Defy Orders
- NYT Notes ‘Small Campus in the Redwoods Has the Nation’s Most Entrenched Protest’
- Over 100 Officers Poured Into Campus Last Night; 35 Arrested, Says Cal Poly Humboldt
- Rally For Release of Arrested Cal Poly Humboldt Protestors at Humboldt Courthouse Today
- Tension and Demands Persist Following Mass Arrests Early Tuesday Morning at Cal Poly Humboldt
- Cal Poly Humboldt Sends a Message to Its Community
- Digital Disguise: Mysterious LED Truck Incident on Cal Poly Humboldt Campus Yesterday
- Jewish Community Leaders Say Cal Poly Humboldt Protests Not Anti-Semitic
- New Details Emerge on Mysterious, Controversial KKK Imagery Display Truck Found on Cal Poly Humboldt
- ACLU and First Amendment Coalition Challenge Cal Poly Humboldt’s Campus Closure and Press Restrictions
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Protesters were all bluster but folded like a taco when state police arrived, unlike at many other campuses. Joe demonstrated his solidarity with our Hamas wing of the Democrat party on one campus.
Was this meme really necessary? Has nothing to do with the article
It’s what Squirrel does.
Unable to slake his lust for attention and ego gratification by polluting the Jail Booking page, he brings his pointless ramblings and grotesque memes here – and Kym let’s him get away with it:
Thats your boy Biden dressed up in his rainbow ballerina costume ?.
Thats your chosen leader lmao
I think it’s a form of dementia this commenter is dealing with.
Squirrely’s comments stopped making sense a long time ago
and have become increasingly repetitive, disoriented, and bitter.
I think you’re both Bots.
If I was programmed to have feelings they would be hurt.
So the discount model, eh?
But thanks for setting the bar so low. Can’t wait till I find a pic of Trump in a bikini.
Eye bleach! Please!
I’m no fan of Biden but this stuff just provokes division. We need to come together as Americans.
Extremely poor taste. Do better.
No wonder James Carville is melting down! ???
$50,000,000,000 (USA aid so far) in bombs to Israeli Zionists.
40,000 (+-) dead = $1,250,000 per death.
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Humboldt State ‘damages’ = 1 death.
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Go figure.
If you are going to make equivalency, you should at least be somewhat accurate. At least cite where you come up with your figures.
This is the most comprehensive information I’ve found and doesn’t match any of your figures.
https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts
Just go somewhere else then, nobody is making you stay.
Nobody would miss “Just Sayin”
Just sayin’
Lucky the kids didn’t haul up the VFW cannon. Again.
Dr Jackson might want to consider actually talking to people rather than issuing a long list of passive-aggressive “talking points”.
I’d wager he’s talking to people as we speak. People at other universities who might be looking for a new uni president
They’re welcome to him
What are you talking about? The only thing he had to discuss was them leaving when he told them to leave. The President did a great job. Good for him. Bye bye protestor loser goons. Now, pay up!
He’s been a terrible president who has repeatedly refused to meet with staff and students about a variety of issues.
And despite his apparent desire to avoid direct interaction with the rest of campus, he doesn’t seem to be making time to do anything else. He’s certainly not led any efforts that have increased the school’s profile or increased enrollment.
Didn’t HSU become Cal Poly on his watch?
That seems like kind of a big deal.
Are you claiming he had nothing to do with that?
He was the president when it happened.
The state university system is the one that initiated the process. It was not his idea and I don’t recall any reporting about him being particularly instrumental in it.
If you know of something that indicates it would rightly be attributed to him I’m happy to give credit where credit is due
The issue here is free speech. Many have become so weak intellectually and morally that insults and violence are accepted under the guise of free speech.
The group of idiots that fought the police and damaged property should know; You are so lucky those officers were there for you.
Imagine what could have happened to you if a bunch of “Redneck” taxpayers or something had showed up instead.
You need to tell your organizers that they might consider a thank you note to LE.
Funny you say they fought the police, in the video I saw the police were escalating the situation with force against peaceful protestors. The police were using bully clubs and punching and elboing protestors in the face.
Police escalated the violence watch the video
Resisting arrest allows LEOs to us as much force as needed to effect the arrest. That’s the law. Are we still a nation of laws or are we going to allow mob rule?
You should be aware of what your government supports. In the country of Georgia, there are violent protest occurring due to the parliament trying to pass a law requiring transparency of NGO’s. The NGO’s are hiring protestors who are destroying the capital city, many people have died in the violence. The NGO’s are being funded by USAID, meaning YOUR tax dollars. Our State Department issued a statement condemning the actions of the government of Georgia for cracking down on the protests. Matt Miller, spokesperson of the State Department said that those protests are part of “a free and vibrant civil society.”
Over here though, the government condemns the protest and shuts them down. Nobody has died here. It appears that our government supports violent protest in many countries around the world. If you don’t like what the protestors here are doing, then maybe you should protest what your government supports everywhere else.
Reap what you so Americans, no sympathy for you. The border is open, we are here. Your time of atonement for the destruction you have cause all across the world has arrived.
Sow
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No name calling, insulting, nor grammatical corrections…
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Autocorrect is a b*tch. So is the edit button on this site. Fun times ahead for all of you.
Autocorrect is is a sow.
You have some valid points there, although you sound somewhat conflicted.
NGOs have forever been a tool of the CIA, whose actions directly reflect the policies of the sitting presidential administration.
It’s a mess alright, super fueled now by Bidens’ sick crew that is selling us out to our MIC and anyone else with a dollar to throw on the fire. Some fundamental international and domestic policy change is certainly in order.
Inchoate. Try again
Maybe people who end up as the tools of any agenda need to be more skeptical. Whether here or over there. And that includes people who think that the US is the great villian of the world.
It wouldn’t be the villain of the world if we kept to ourselves, didn’t fund wars and didn’t get involved in any wars. There are more than enough problems at home. We are not the world’s policeman, nor should we desire to be.
If we are going to be starting wars and funding them all over the globe, the smart thing to do would be to close the borders so that those people we have bombed and killed for a century couldn’t have easy access to us.
Last I checked neither China nor Russia, Iran, or any other country are parking aircraft carriers off our coasts and holding war games. Really, considering our open border, it would be downright irresponsible for our enemies to not have a few battalions of theirs parked on our soil.
Americans are about to learn the hard way that their ivory tower is really just a glass house, it would be wise not to throw stones.
Makes sense to me
Hmm.. that was Trump’s position. But you’d be wrong about other country’s not parking air craft carriers and hold war game’s. If they got ’em, they use them. I remember waving to the Russian ships as they sailed at the three mile limit off the coast of Florida monitoring US space efforts. I thought it funny.
You need to get out more.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/09/politics/taiwan-invasion-war-game-intl-hnk-ml/index.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-naval-exercise-ireland-nato-eu-ukraine-1.6332643
https://apnews.com/article/iran-russia-china-joint-naval-drill-53a1b3a6f9fd2c4199d2ad7d8cd5a49e
I don’t see any reports of those being off the coast of the USA. Taiwan, Ukraine, Israel, honestly not our problem. Cut off funding to all of them, we don’t have any money. 34 trillion dollars in debt, we’re broke man, we don’t have the money, we can’t even produce an artillery shell.
Since when is America the villian of the world? Where will you flee to?
I’d just go back to El Salvador
Should the President have not attended the recent Senate meeting? “Great job”??? I think not!
He apparently didn’t attend the most recent Senate meeting. Where is the courage and leadership in that?!!
Shouldn’t be a big deal for tuition to go up to cover the costs of damage.
Right – punish all students for the criminal acts of a minority of students and outside agitators.
Welcome to Zionism…
What’s good for the all the people of Gaza is good for all the students of CPH…
Collective punishment is all “the rage” these days…
Don’t be surprised when the Star of David, upon the Israeli flag, flies topmost on the flagstaff in and above the Arcata Plaza…
Shouldn’t be long now…
Well people should have worried less about their own right to a “safe space” that is made safe by excluding others and more on making sure that everyone’s spaces are equally safe.
Unfortunately that idea is no longer fashionable and the idea of forcing people to conform has replaced it. Admittedly sharing is a much harder project that always is a work in progress. People prefer violence with the idea it will be a one-and-done. So yes, progressive zionism is a thing and likely will fly a topmost flag in Arcata. It will not be however the Israeli flag. It will be the flag of whatever entity that push its agenda of the moment. But it certainly will have a clenched fist of some color on it.
“Well people should have worried less about their own right to a “safe space” that is made safe by excluding others and more on making sure that everyone’s spaces are equally safe.”
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You’re talking about “Israeli” “people” right…???
Here, let me, quite easily, properly fix it, for you …
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“Well [Israeli] people should have worried less about their own right to a “safe space” that is made safe by excluding others and more on making sure that everyone’s spaces are equally safe.”
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Thanks, Yabut, albeit with that one slight adjustment for clarity, I couldn’t have said it better myself…
Wouldn’t you agree that it’s much more accurate, applicable, and meaningful, now…???
I definitely think so…
Hypocritical double standards are bullshit.
I’m talking about all people. Despite you current little fun technique of rephrasing other people’s word to add you own interpretation.
You on the other hand apparently think that somehow inept, violent and self destructive people are innocent victims when all they are is inept, violent and self destructive. As soon as Hamas gets a ceasefire, their history makes it likely they will use it to clean their own house of criticism by shooting people. Then do some prophylactic assassinations of other groups.
They will then attempt to control any information that calls their actions into question from outside by controlling whatever aid flows into Gaza by again killing anyone who acts outside of their control.
Rejoice in your choice. A ceasefire from the Israelis will not mean a ceasefire inside Gaza. Meanwhile Israeli will just hold an election.
It’s not about my interpretation…
It’s to illustrate the hypocrisy of the original statement…
A Ceasefire agreement from Hamas will not mean a Ceasefire from Israel in Rafah, or anywhere else in Gaza.
I appreciate your point, but there were no active ‘outside agitators’.
It’s naive to think the protest wasn’t a magnet for community hangers on with an anarchistic/black bloc frame of mind who revel in chaos and property destruction.
Based on the results I’d have to say those folks were very active. And as a result the original point of the protest was lost as it became all about occupying a building and provoking a confrontation.
They included the police slumber party expenses in the $1.9 million. They sure didn’t break it down in their “analysis” but it seems likely the weekend warriors on overtime, the helicopter, all the war games cost way more than the damage from a student campout. At some point we’ll hear what the actual damages to the building were.
That’d be antisemitism…
First of all, the DA needs to charge every piece of shit that was involved with felony vandalism. Good luck with that in a do nothing DA office.
Secondly, CPH must put in place a policy and a plan for the future. It must be policy that with the first act of vandalism or violence, all involved parties will be forcefully arrested and removed.
There, that took less than 2 minutes for me. How can it be a university with hundreds of PhDs are totally incapable to come up with this. Talk about the dumbing down of America, the dumbing down ofthe PhD is way worse.
You are a legend in your own mind
So if the government passed laws to make food unaffordable and destroy the livelihoods of the farmers in the USA, much like many laws being passed in Europe right now, would you be advocating for this same type of crackdown if the farmers who provide your food started to protest like they are in France?
I’m against anyone, anywhere being involved in vandalism or violence. There is no cause so great as to “protest” in a terroristic manner. Now I do, however, support force against the perpetrators of these crimes and real prison time.
So you wouldn’t even fight for your own food supply? Got it. Everything makes sense now. You will put the “Will of the State” before your own survival. The ZOG USA is your god.
Yea!! They should just BOMB THE DORMS. Right???
Oh for God’s sake stop exaggerating
Simple solution…close the school for the year. Leave the protesters there with a closed school and no attention.
Simple solutions. No public funds to these for-profit institutions of indoctrination. Abolish the federal Department of Education. Cancel all student loan forgiveness. And prosecute the perpetrators to the fullest extent of the law…
Then airlift them upon their release to whatever country takes in the Palestinians because a “two state solution” is a non starter and they violated the first amendment by not assembling and protesting peacefully. They can go protest Qatar, Jordan, Syria or Iran to their hearts content. At least until a terrorist rips it out of their chest for being an infidel.
Last I heard the only country, or at least the only country’s leader, that will accept Palestinians, is Biden. So no matter what we will be stuck with them. Even Iran has not offered to take them.
Well, Netenyahu is pressing forward with his offensive in Rafah. Keep kicking that can down the road and we won’t have to worry about porous borders after 1/21/25
Iran and Yemen have already offered to allow students expelled for protesting for Palestine to finish their studies over there. I think it is a wonderful idea and that the blue and purple haired students should take them up on it. I believe it would be a greater educational experience than could ever be offered for them here in the USA.
Hear, hear!
The main entrance to CPH still has the concrete barriers in place, with a University patrol car parked behind it.
Expecting a second invasion?
The last bullet point in the press release:
“The tagging and efforts to reoccupy buildings on campus have continued since the arrests, which is why the campus has not yet been reopened.”
The protestors stated as much, some stayed to get arrested as a protest. Many said they will leave to return again when the police leave.
https://youtu.be/TDy4YHqgzVw?si=8jvH7kHIsnKkbtsx
“The UPD Chief of Police recommended that law enforcement depart.”
And the direct result is $1.9 million hit to the Taxpayers. That UPD Chief of Police needs to resign or be fired, because they’re not very good at their job.
Coward seems to fit.
I’ll grant benefit of the doubt, and assume he’s just a typical government worker, who when given the option to work or not to work, will always decide not to work.
Because, why wouldn’t’ you – if the pay’s the same.
Because law enforcement officers swear an oath of office…
The oath of office taken by sheriffs and other officers is a solemn commitment to uphold the law and fulfill their duties. While I don’t have the exact text of the oath taken by Humboldt County Sheriffs, it generally includes promises to faithfully execute their duties, protect citizens, and maintain law and order. No profession demands a higher ethical standard.
you are embarrassing
ACAB
All Criminals Are Bastards? Well true that.
That’s a hateful thing to say.
Police have proven in court they are here to protect property not human life
Sure they are. Like when they let the Mexican nationals go who were caught with 6 pounds of heroin? Upholding their duties like that? Following the law like that?
The 1.9 million showers appears to include the cost of the police
Yep! That was the Admin’s bad decision making! Other colleges are resolving things peacefully.
Where has that happened? The only news seems to be of police.
All this will just weaken the Democrats this fall,I’m sure Russia and their puppet trump loves every second of it. Israel and USA are major partners and that relationship is as good as set in stone, netanyahu needs to go though asap as well as pres jackson.
You do realize that President Trump was found innocent of any Russian Collusion. The Schiff Show wasted $$$ Millions of tax dollars lying to the American public about Trump daily. Most everyday Schiff boasted about his new evidence of Russian Collusion against Trump and there never was any in the first place.
No he was not found innocent. It was determined that he could not be charged but was guilty.
Think Benghazi when you start referring to money wasted by a partisan Congress!
In the state of California run by a Democrat governor, with a Democrat majority senate, in a county with a Democrat state senator. In a CSU system also run by a majority of democrats.
But it’s Trumps fault.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is real.
Netan yaju needs to go to Prague, The Netherlands and face his war crimes Tribunal and hopefully the ICC INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT sentences him to Death for war crimes and the slaughter and injury of over 150,000 Palestinians. Hopefully Biden will follow him to the ICC and the gallows for Bidens role in funding the genocide.
May justice prevail!
“$1.9M in financial impact”
Probably trying to claim regular business operations.
Better check this dudes bank account for funny business.
I want to see a breakdown of the “damages.”
How much of it was for actual repairs, and how much of it was for the completely unnecessary police response?
I think that you are onto something…
I just want to see the tab for transporting a squad up from San Francisco. Plus all that overtime they all had to work for their night raid where they get to larp as special forces
The police response was absolutely necessary – without it the morons would still be occupying the building.
Sure, it was… Sure it was…
As absolutely necessary as the Armored Bear Cat Military Vehicle leading the Excessive Convoy of “Specialized” San Francisco Police…
What was the itemized dollar amount for just the Bear Cat and it’s appurtenant “crew”…???
The self preserving POS’s damn sure pissed that money away…
Birds of a feather…
Let them pay for it out of their own pockets…
The sky wasn’t falling, Truth Be Told…
So? The problem with that is what? A leftist institution shut down by leftist protestors, protesting in the manner that the institution taught them to. I fail to see any problem with that except that people intervened who generally complain about said institution, indoctrination, and the students in general. The people who supported the intervention I hope never complain about college policies ever again.
I agree 100%. Show us the figures, I figure the University is lying, just like they are lying about who got violent.
President Jackson is a liar
CPH Senate is holding a meeting at Arcata Community Center.
A few protesters are outside.
Here is a photo. I will post more hope that is acceptable.
If they hurry maybe Ryan can cover it. Might make a good story.
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Use critical thinking skills, tru matters…
Who do you suppose are the “authors” of the graffiti you’ve shown in this picture…
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“NEVER AGAIN for ANYONE”…
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I figure it’s just as likely a message of Israeli origin…
They mark up everything they can, as much as they can….!!!
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Is that some “Jews do that trope?” Sounds like white supremacist propaganda.
This the second time you have brought up supposed Jewish business practices.
Any reason for that?
That’s not what I said…
What is the meaning of the word markup?
an increase in price
an increase in price, esp. the amount by which the cost of an item for sale is increased to provide a profit to the person selling it:
Mark up = graffiti
Mark up = sidewalk chalk talk
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Why the sudden “interest”..???
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They have tables set up where you can send letters to government reps
These people are peaceful protesters and seem like really nice people.
Tru said:
“These people are peaceful protesters and seem like really nice people.”
Too bad they weren’t in the majority when criminal miscreants converted a protest into a building occupation, destroyed public property, resisted and assaulted the police and interferes with the rights of the other students.
Hopefully more peaceful than the occupiers.
But, it’s anti Semitism…
As Americans, with President Biden at the helm, don’t you know, in order to be Politically Correct, we MUST ONLY exhibit Pro Semitism, which means that we MUST enable, encourage, and embrace, Israel BOMBING CHILDREN, while we simultaneously DENY, that Israel, BOMBING CHILDREN IS NOT SELF DEFENSE…
How am I doing, so far…???
As far as what has been happening in Gaza for the last 7 1/2 months…
The only question is…
Is Biden taking marching orders from Netanyahu, or is Netanyahu taking marching orders from Biden…
Assuming that it’s Biden that’s been calling the shots all along, it starts to all add up and make sense that Biden is “OVERLOOKING” everything that is happening in Gaza…
Because Biden, not Netanyahu, is the one who is actually, “OVERSEEING” everything that is happening in Gaza…!!!
Biden’s feigned opposition to any of it, including the mass starvation and famine, is only a political ruse…
Biden is trying to balance winning a political popularity contest, meanwhile annihilating Gaza and it’s Palestinian People…
It explains why the press can get no straight answers from any of Biden’s Press Representatives…
They are all lying through their teeth.
And that is why there is no US red line in Gaza.
The decisions are all Biden’s…
Netanyahu is just playing the part of the Patsy.
Biden is the real BadGuy…
You either live in a fantasy land or knowingly tell lies. Israel is a democratic sovereign nation and is not a puppet of anyone.
Da widdle babies were upset, they had DEMANDS! So if the tantrum does not work, break things, make the workers clean it up, and the taxpayers foot the bill. Disgusting creatures.
Yes. Demands imply “or else”, in this case shutting down campus operations and vandalizing property.
One more
“Efforts to clear those barricades in the lobby were met with assault on officers.”
Was anyone arrested for assault on an officer? If not, why not?
Its because the police were assauting the protestors and bullying to escalate the situation to violence Watch the video. Cal Poly Humboldt Administration is lying to you
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jGE3M6rxW_o
The “peaceful protestors” were trespassing, vandalizing the building and blocking emergency exits.
They refused to take the protest outside where it would have been legal.
It’s obvious a hard core wanted to provoke a confrontation and that’s what they got when they resisted and assaulted the police.
That’s when the original point of the protest was lost and holding the building became the issue.
Too bad your opinion has no basis to back it up…. police can clearly be seen escalating the aggression and violence
Watch this video of the events, plainly the police were assaulting protesters and elboing punching and using billy clubs in this video.
It seems whoever wrote this concoted lies and left our what they dont want the community to know. But we see clearly who started beating who and who used bully clubs on nonviolent students !
Why is Cal Poly Humboldt Lying to us? Why didnt they show is the clip of the aggressive police escalating matters and getting violent with bully clubs? Why is Cal Poly Humboldt hiding the truth?
The University is lying about the damage as well. Who wants to go to a university who lies?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jGE3M6rxW_o
This may come as a shock to you but when someone resists arrest the police are legally empowered to use the amount of force necessary to overcome the resistance and take the person into custody.
The police obviously didnt have a clear strategic plan to remove protestors. They acted aggressive to try and start a riot rather than dealing with a “sit in” of student protestors in a civil manner. They leadership of the police failed they escalated instead of deescalating. They got aggressive and violent with a peaceful sit in.
The local police have a history of violence against protestors reaching all the way back to the 1980s and 1990 Redwood Sunner days. They are the biggest gang of violent criminals in Humboldt County
Sit in=tresspassing, a crime…
Vandalism=a crime…
Barricading the building to prevent removal=a crime…
Crimes have consiquences…don’t like em…don’t be dumb…
Police have a duty to match force with reasonable force and they have an obligation to protect and this means de-escalating not forcefully trying to remove nonviolent sit in protestors. Humboldt County Sheriff should have leaned that in Redwood Summer days when they swabbed the sit in protestors eyes with pepper spray using qtip swabs. They County Of Humboldt had to pay, us tax payers had to pay $5,000,000 for that dumbass move by the Aggressive Violent and Sadistic Sheriff’s department. . And yes , swabbing pepper spray into people’s eyes is sadistic as fuck
I watched. First assaults were conducted by the protesters. Plain as day.
I have more pics of what was chalked on the Community Center walkway if you can use them for anything. They should stay there for a couple of days.
Wonder what was discussed in the meeting.
An author less “Press Release” from the liars and frauds at Cal Poly Humboldt Administration.
This time line is so full of sh#t nobody had the bmnerves to sign their name since its so full of falsehoods and trying to clean uo their aggressive actions in the public and future stundents parents who will ultimately not send their kids to Cal Poly Humboldt now. Good job liars
The pro-Hamas “protestors” are doing a lot more damage than those “MAGA” idiots on J6. And they’ll be “sacrificial lambs when Democrats start looking at their internal polling…
Did you say Pro Hamas Protestors, they were actually anti genocide or lf children protestors get it right… stop lying
I take it you’re aware that the Hamas charter explicitly calls for genocide of the Jewish people.
Yeah, Hamas sucks. Murder of children sucks.
At the airport … but who can resist this:
Who brought in to Humboldt the doxxing billboard truck, could it be the nasty-billboard-truck specialists Accuracy in Media, that NGO K Street (DC) lobby firm. May be. Look them up, the President, the Board, its history and funders (if you can find them). Here’s one funder of historical record and some of their past:
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2023/01/27/where-the-uihleins-sent-their-cash-after-the-insurrection-00079999
WHO GOT THE UIHLEINS’ CASH AFTER JAN. 6: A nonprofit led by GOP megadonor Richard Uihlein contributed millions of dollars in 2021 to conservative groups who played roles in promoting falsehoods of widespread voter fraud following the 2020 election or are linked to efforts to challenge the election results, including more than $2 million within a week of the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
— The donations from the Ed Uihlein Family Foundation include a $1 million gift the day after the insurrection to the Conservative Partnership Institute, the nonprofit home to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Cleta Mitchell, an attorney who helped the Trump campaign challenge the election results in Georgia, according to tax filings for the foundation.
— On Jan. 13, a week after the insurrection, the nonprofit donated $500,000 to the Center for Security Policy, whose founder and executive chairman Frank Gaffney Jr. has downplayed the events of Jan. 6; and $250,000 apiece to the conservative radio show Sons of Liberty and conservative youth group Turning Point USA, the latter of which was listed as a participant for the Jan. 6 rally in front of the White House that preceded the Capitol attack.
— It gave $100,000 the same day to the Federalist Society, the marquee conservative legal society of which Trump attorney John Eastman is a member; $50,000 to the conservative think tank Texas Public Policy Foundation; and $25,000 to the right-wing group Judicial Watch, according to the filings, which were obtained by the liberal watchdog group Accountable.US and shared first with PI.
— Others who benefited from the shipping supply magnates’ gifts in 2021 included right-wing media outlets like the FDRLST Media Foundation ($1.2 million) and American Conservative ($25,000). Conservative media watchdog Media Research Center received $300,000 and the American Cornerstone Institute, a CPI-affiliated think tank focused on “election integrity” and run by former Trump HUD Director Ben Carson, got $1.5 million. The foundation also gave another $50,000 to CPI later in the year and another $165,000 to Sons of Liberty.
— The foundation’s gifts in the weeks following the insurrection weren’t limited to right-wing groups linked to those challenging or disputing the election results. The nonprofit reported nearly 150 separate donations in 2021 totaling more than $18.4 million — of which more than three-quarters came in January. That’s similar to the number of donations it reported in January 2020, that year’s tax filings show.
— The foundation has donated previously to many of the groups, and in many cases gave more to those groups in the lead-up to the 2020 election than in 2021. But its most recent filings show how the Uihleins continued even after the Jan. 6 attacks to fund some of the same entities on the right that promoted falsehoods about the election that drove the events of that day.
— “Billionaires Dick and Liz Uihlein bankrolled groups that brought us the January 6th insurrection and funneled millions towards the effort to overturn the 2020 election,” said Derek Martin, a spokesperson for Accountable.US. “Then they doubled down on their investment, sending millions more to anti-democratic and extremist groups that fueled the election denialism movement just days after the deadly assault on our Capitol.”
— Tax filings show that both years the group was bankrolled entirely by Richard Uihlein, who along with his wife were the Republican Party’s top benefactors in last year’s midterms, according to OpenSecrets. In 2021, Uihlein kicked in $4.5 million for the nonprofit named for his father, about a quarter of what he gave in 2020.
New one. The meeting is over protestors left.
The Biden Administration at the behest of encroaching World Government is ramming through the Antisemitism Bill which will in essence police all dissenting views against Israel, including Biblical Gospel text. The Bill is weaponized to use the Federal Governments authorities and institutions to enforce the war on free speech. This Bill if it passes the Senate will set the stage for an expanding Orwellian nightmare controlled by AI where those who question authority are neutralized.
Should have hauled them out the first day. No ifs and or buts. This pic shows how pathetic we are getting with entitled idiot allowed to do this to CPH . Explain why this happened at the School . These people are no our friends. Again I say any of you really want to protest I will buy you a ticket to Gaza.
Cal Polyp Humboldt is a cancerous, abnormal growth.
Don’t look away…
https://www.reddit.com/r/IsraelCrimes/comments/1cmn0aa/theres_no_gore_or_bloody_shock_its_petrified/
Children…CHILDREN are dying for being Palestinian!
YOU ARE PAYING FOR THIS
Free Palestine~
War is hell.
The civilian population of Gaza would fare better if they’d stop letting Hamas use them as human shields. Gotta crack a few eggs to make an omelette. Civilian casualties happen in war. The US killed 60,000 civilians in Nagasaki and 90,000 in Hiroshima. In two days.
Methinks the IDF is being rather restrained in their righteous retaliation than the US has EVER been in any of our foreign conflicts.
YMMV
What do you think about how student protests work or how administration acts in these events? What makes you think this way?
What things have you personally seen or heard that make you believe this? How do your emotions change what you think?
How do you choose which information to trust? What rules do you use to decide if information is good?
Have you thought about how your belief affects how you interact with people who don’t agree?
Would you change your mind if you found new information that didn’t match your belief? What kind of evidence would make you think differently?
The narrative that so many of you just assume as truth
– Hamas ‘rapes’ debunked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6G9PQXXUr0&t=421s
do none of you remember the babies in incubators in the run up to Iraq?
apparently not
please educate yourselves
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I believe divestment is important. Upon reviewing university finances I realized that one of the ways I myself contribute to the problem is through my student loans. They are federally subsidized, meaning the money comes from the same federal government that is bankrolling the occupation and genocide. This is unacceptable and I will be taking responsibility for my involvement by denying my Spring ’25 student loans and all future loans. I think we can set up a gofundme where faculty members and others can contribute to pay for enrollment for students who choose to divest. Free GAZA! Free PALESTINE!
The amount of ‘damages’ they quote is ridiculous! I was there and saw it all, including inside Siemen’s Hall. Total? Maybe $200-300K if they pay union workers to paint and clean things. The furniture and other items that were used as barricades were not harmed much, if at all. Putting the ‘Siemen’s Hall’ sign back up. A few wood panels in the building will need to be cleaned and/or sanded and redone. That may be the biggest single expense.
If CPH is including the cost of the cops and outside security, that’s on them! They did not need to resort to that! We see other colleges now negotiating and peacefully ending these demonstrations without heavy police presence. So do not blame the protesters for your bad and aggressive decision making!!
WHAT PRICE IS FREE SPEECH AND EXPRESSION?
Americans have the right to peacefully assemble and address grievances to their government. It’s in that first amendment thingy…
When vandals destroy public property and occupy public space, peaceful protest goes out the window. And the protestors didn’t address grievances against the government. They whined and sniveled.
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Spoken like someone who seems to have no care that a genocide is occurring.
By your rules, the protestors at the Boston Tea Party, who destroyed property and broke laws, should have had been flogged and that they be made to ‘work THEIR asses into the…’ harbor?
The US has rules about genocides (or, you can just refer to it as a slaughter, if the G word makes you anxious) and when US made weapons are being used in offensive ways. Yet apparently those rules, like many many others, are made to be broken. But I don’t hear you decrying that!
Protests can be messy and challenging in many ways, especially without a ‘leadership’ (so the authorities can’t put all the blame on just a few!). With that, people are then allowed to express themselves, and some cross social and legal lines. Big deal. They are protesting the murder of thousands and thousands of innocent people in Gaza! But, again, we know, that doesn’t matter to you.
Thanks Kim for having such an open community forum. It’s rare these days to have a real colloquium. Blessings.
Alternate headline: Cal Poly Humboldt administration tries to cover their asses and protect their jobs by offering inflated damage numbers and a fake narrative.
Better idea would be to quit and move on. You really fucked this one up!!
Who would have ever thought progressives would morph into white supremacists. Strange days indeed…