"I got pepper sprayed and all I got was this lousy t-shirt," was what Santa Monica College student Christina Deal wore to a press conference Wednesday.
She and other opponents of the college's new plan to offer classes at cost to students—at a price higher than the subsidized rate they currently pay—were among the 15-30 pepper-sprayed Tuesday night by a campus police officer.
They were sprayed as they overran a Board of Trustees meeting. The board chambers were overcapacity and students say they wanted their opinions to be heard. But college officials say the students “acted unlawfully.”
Students convened a press conference on the steps of the college library to share personal anecdotes from last night's events.
"The first thing that happened to me was that an officer grabbed me around the neck and placed me in a choke hold," Deal said. "I was doing nothing violent, I was just standing at the front when I was assaulted."
See her and other students' reactions to the new funding model, and to being pepper-sprayed, by watching the video above this article.
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Take the $600 Billion spent on Defense, stop building roads in Afghanistan an killing innocent women, children and old men there so that our military comes back and commits suicide here because of what they are doing there to innocent civilians. Now The Campus police is pepper spraying our innocent Civilians, while sex offenders are running around free because of stupid plea bargains and are sitting in AA meetings looking for their next prey. Wake up everyone and lets all fight back. We have the funds. I am paying the taxes. They are using OUR MONEY for a war NONE of us believe in . Its our money. Lets take back our country. USE the $ 600 Billion to fund edcaution in America again.
You want someone on the east coast to pay for your little boy to go to school. Be a parent and take responsibility for your childs education, and pony up the money. If your complainining about a $200.00 for a class? what a small little world you live in. I'm paying close to 5 times that per class. Without any help. Since you want everybody to pay for your sons education what do we get for your little johny's time at school. What is the return on my investment for your son going to school learning to sing Kumbiya. When you elect liberals and want all those social programs the money has to come from somewhere. When that money runs out what do you do? Raise taxes, or raise the costs of doing business.
I'm the product of both state and federal education subsidies. I partially paid for college with the G.I. Bill, state grants and private grants, so you can't presume that just because someone is pro-subsidies, they are also pot-smoking, Kumbaya-singing, subsidy-wasting hippies. @proudrepub, why do you pay five times more in tuition?
Would you want a Doctor that went to Harvard Medical or one that went to Kumbiya Medical.? You get what you pay for.
Proudrepub, you sound smart!
Wow.
If your going to to quote me at least make it correct. "better educated a society the better off we are. However, it should be the student to pay for it not me." We are already paying for the k-12 education. Beyond that it is the students own responsibility to get that advanced education. By the time they graduate high school they are adults, old enough to vote and go to war. The responsibility of the government to educate them should end at high school. How many students get the federal grants, free money just to go and party. Wasting hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars.