Birgeneau did not object to Nov. 9 baton use at the time, emails show

Recently released correspondence involving UC Berkeley administrators indicates that Chancellor Robert Birgeneau approved of — or at least did not question — the police use of batons at the Nov. 9 Occupy Cal protest… the ACLU sent a letter to the board on Tuesday stating that evidence shows that the campus’s conduct on Nov. 9 was “fundamentally inconsistent with the values of a public university which purports to be a community dedicated to the free and robust exchange of ideas.”

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by Jordan Bach-Lombardo and J.D. Morris, The Daily Californian.

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