Folks’s Park resistance motion rises
BERKELEY — Greater than part a century in the past, hundreds of protesters marched to a big vacant lot on Haste Side road close to Telegraph Street and ripped down the fences surrounding it, swarming onto the valuables owned by means of close by UC Berkeley.
Response to the open act of defiance used to be swift and bloody. Officials clad in rise up equipment charged into the group. The protesters resisted. Pictures have been fired. One bullet struck and killed a pupil. Masses have been injured, together with law enforcement officials. Helicopters sprayed tear fuel over the battlefield and a state of emergency used to be declared in Berkeley. The Nationwide Guard got here.
Finally, the college retreated from its plan to construct pupil housing at the website, which by means of then had g...
