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[pseudomanitou]

The LA Times reports that Santa Monica police are today "trying to sort out" who used pepper-spray on the peacefully assembled students. Reports I heard last night indicated that the person or persons responsible were campus police, not Santa Monica police, who were called in later to secure the site. Among the injured: a child, who looks to be

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[shimmerhawk]

The "Animal Inside Out" thing is amazing.

I can't even read half those links, they make me too upset. I also don't like how people are suddenly jumping all over being thin as a horrible body type. Some of us are just naturally thin, we're not trying to be models.

[ionotter]

Sorry about that reply to your post? Stupid LJ formatting screwed me up.

[shimmerhawk]

No worries.

[ionotter]

I, of all people, would be the LAST PERSON ON EARTH to say that the use of force against protestors is a good thing. I do not like what police officers have become. BUT...in this case, the use of pepper spray may have saved that girl's life. She was being crushed by the crowd, and you could hear her screaming as she was being squashed. If *she* had gone down, instead of a trained officer, it would have been disastrous

[kesarra]

"So if students start asking questions or if there's debate on it, it's not a one-sided debate."
Ugh, Tennessee. Science is not Philosophy or History. It doesn't work that way. You can't just argue on the side of "there's no such thing as protons". How are students going to critique anything when they don't even know how any of it works? I would never ask a high school student to convince me not to use flying buttresses at Bath Abbey.