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Title: Students Sue U.C. Davis Over Pepper-Spraying (Crowd Chanting " Cops Off Campus") Sarena
Grossjan, Student speaking: "They all came into a big rectangle and started kind of marching
towards us and lining up as if it was like some kind of war." Fatima Sbeih, Student speaking:
"I wasn't there to cause any problems for the police. I was there to sit down and I'm
showing them, 'Look I'm sitting down here peacefully. I just don't agree with what your
doing." David Buscho, Student speaking: "And someone just started yelling, 'Cover your
face! Cover your face!' cause, I guess, he was shaking up a canister of pepper spray."
(Crowd Screams in Terror) David Buscho, Student speaking: "The instant you get pepper sprayed,
you become like a helpless ball of flesh." Sarena Grossjan, Student speaking: "The worst
part was just seeing other people in so much pain." Police Officer speaking: "Move, or
you're gonna get it in the face. Move!" Fatima Sbeih speaking: "I experienced being tear
gassed in Palestine. I just never would have thought that it would happen to me here."
David Buscho speaking: "A few weeks before my friends and other students started protesting,
the president of the U.C. system who proposed an 81% tuition increase." Sarena Grossjan
speaking: "I don't come from a background with a lot of money, so because of that you
have to be a student and work. If they raise the tuition 81%, for me that means that I
won't be finishing the next three years of school." News Reporter speaking: "Nineteen
students and alumni have filed a federal lawsuit over that pepper-spraying incident at U.C.
Davis." Sarena Grossjan speaking: " What I want to get out of this suit is for free speech
to be heard." David Buscho speaking: "I think we're gonna learn a lot about not just where
responsibility lies, but we're gonna learn a lot about how to set policies about the
use of police." Fatima Sbeih speaking: "For peaceful protestors to be attacked by the
same people who are there to protect them. That's a big deal." (Crowd chanting: "We are
the 99%!") David Buscho speaking: "You know, this was my first protest and so this was
really the first time where I thought, 'Wow Here a bunch of students who are disenfranchised
by this public policy and were protesting and this is awesome.' And then, the next day,
police in riot gear come. It was sort of like, 'Oh so the system doesn't really... The system
might actually not be on my side.'"
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