Two arrested, plastic pellets fired during Thursday Riverside protests
Police officers arrested two protesters and struck several others with plastic pellets during a demonstration Thursday surrounding the UC Board of Regents meeting at UC Riverside. The two individuals arrested were booked on suspicion of felony assault of a police officer, according to Riverside campus spokesperson Kris Lovekin. Nine police officers also sustained minor injuries and about 11 people in the crowd suffered bruises from the pellets, Lovekin said. For UC Riverside junior Stephen Fong, the protests on his campus marked a dramatic shift in the atmosphere of the student body… “We kind of have this reputation of being passive and uninterested, so I think that was sort of broken down yesterday,” Fong said. “I know that I and a lot of other people feel proud of the school because we got together to do something.”
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by Jamie Applegate, The Daily Californian.