Students call for UC Davis chancellor to resign
>>> ack in force on the c- davis campus. students are also shouting for the resignation of their chancellor. they pepper sprayed a seemingly peaceful crowd on friday. the chancellor has since apologized and says it should never have happened, but many students and faculty say it's too little, too late. among them is nathan brown , an assistant english professor from uc- davis who joins me live via skype. your chancellor spoke out yesterday saying she is sorry. police were not supposed to use this type of force. she wasn't at that rally on friday. it's truly now infamous where police pulled out the pepper spray . some would say it was more like a pepper hose. but what is your opinion on why she needs to be forced out?
>> well, what we've seen over the past two years at uc campuses is a systematic use of police brutality to terrorize student and faculty protesters. and there has to be accountability somewhere down the line. and i'm afraid that on our campus, the buck stops with the chancellor. the chancellor, as you've said at the top of your show, initially defended the actions of the ucpd. and since friday, she has been engaged in furious program of backpedaling and obfuscation which follows a fair ly common script in police brutality .
>> when you talk about what's happened on campus, there has been this longstanding no-camp policy. protesters will hold a conference at 2:00 pacific time . is there the atmosphere that the community supports the protesters or the campus community just doesn't support the force that was shown?
>> i think the campus community very strongly supports the protesters. many, many uc faculty, for example, signed a statement supporting the goals of the occupy movement in the united states just a few weeks ago. when we see that movement on to our own actual campuses, we then see the same sort of repression that that movement has faced in other cities throughout the country where we've seen people pepper sprayed, tear gassed, shot with rubber bullets , seriously injured and hospitalized as students were at uc- davis . and so i think, you know, the rally yesterday add uc- davis which was attended by upwards of 5,000 people shows how strongly the university community supports these students. there are policies and procedures, but the fact is there is also the right protests. and these students need to be able to act in solidarity with other people who share their beliefs. they need to be able to protest ongoing tuition increases at the university of california which are precipitous and disastrous. what we see is that when they stach stand up and say we will not pay more. we will not go further into debt, these protesters are beaten and hospitalizedized and arrested. and it's an unacceptable state of affairs.
>> we certainly have the eyes of the country looking at what's going on at uc- davis . nathan brown , professor at uc- davis , thanks, appreciate your time.
>> thanks for having me on
