Alex Barnard was one of many UC Berkeley students who visited the campus’ Tang Health Center after a violent Occupy Cal protest last Nov. 9. He arrived at Tang with contusions and broken ribs caused when an officer rammed him with her baton as hundreds of students linked arms to protect tents they had erected on campus. As with all violent injuries, from black eye to murder, state law requires medical centers to tell police. “The doctor said, ‘You know I have to report this to the UC police,’ ” said Bernard, a graduate student in sociology. “I just started crying at that point, realizing that the people who hurt me are supposed to investigate the beating and make it right. It’s Orwellian.”

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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.

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