The College of California-Berkeley is constructing a brand new residence corridor and leftists aren’t blissful about it for some purpose and have been protesting on the building web site.
In response, the varsity has constructed a wall on the web site to maintain the protesters away. However how can this be? Democrats and the media have been saying for years that partitions are racist and don’t work.
The varsity apparently concerned the police, too. Why would Berkeley do that?
The School Repair reported:
UC Berkeley builds wall, calls in cops to cease building protestors
College of California Berkeley officers have constructed a wall utilizing cargo containers and barbed wire to maintain out protestors of a proposed residence corridor.
UC Berkeley deployed at the least 100 cops to protect Folks’s Park, the proposed web site of the brand new residence corridor, in line with the coed newspaper. The college plans to function 24-hour eating to feed legislation enforcement Berkeleyside additionally reported.
“Whereas the college is unable to begin improvement of the park pending a choice by the California Supreme Court docket, the college is allowed to put fencing across the park,” The Day by day Californian reported on Thursday.
The park has been the location of protests from college students and native activists who need to protect the park for open use. In August 2022, activists mourned the lack of timber minimize down with a Sunday memorial service, as beforehand reported by The School Repair.
The college beforehand used fencing in August 2022.
Bushes had been eliminated and vehicles will likely be towed to permit the college to construct a cargo container wall, very like the one Arizona constructed alongside the U.S.-Mexico border.
“Round 2:30 a.m., crew started taking down timber alongside the perimeter of the park, as permitted by a metropolis public works allow issued Wednesday,” the coed newspaper reported. “Nevertheless, a number of sources have reported that vehicles alongside the park’s perimeter streets — Haste Avenue, Dwight Means and Bowditch Avenue — have been towed.”
Will Democrats condemn Berkeley as racist for doing this?
Police ousted dozens of activists and homeless campers from the Folks’s Park in Berkeley, California, the location of counterculture protests within the Nineteen Sixties, to make manner for a wall of delivery containers to dam entry to the park. https://t.co/6fTRb7Vjbs
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) January 5, 2024
Berkeley’s Folks’s Park Surrounded by ‘Border Wall’ of Delivery Containers, Hippies Hardest Hithttps://t.co/S3R8cEirhE
— HotAir.com (@hotairblog) January 5, 2024
Partitions for me however not for thee. How typical.
