CSUN STUDENTS CLASH WITH BERKELEY PROTESTERS.Byline: Yvette Cabrera, Steven J. Gorman and Patrick McGreevy Daily News Staff Writers In the aftermath of the violence inspired by former Klansman David Duke's appearance on campus a day earlier, angry Cal State Northridge students sparred Thursday with a small group of Bay Area activists who they believe incited some of the trouble. Fights erupted when the Berkeley Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action affirmative action, in the United States, programs to overcome the effects of past societal discrimination by allocating jobs and resources to members of specific groups, such as minorities and women. By Any Means Necessary By any means necessary is a translation of a phrase coined by the French intellectual Jean Paul Sartre in his play Dirty Hands. I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. (BAMN BAMN By Any Means Necessary. ) showed up at noon outside the Student Union to protest what they contend was police brutality Police brutality is a term used to describe the excessive use of physical force, assault, verbal attacks, and threats by police officers and other law enforcement officers. The term may also be used to apply to such behavior when used by prison officers. . A group of about 50 frustrated and annoyed Cal State Northridge students confronted the activists, chanting: ``Go Home BAMN'' and ``You want trouble, you got it, go home.'' ``I think they should not have been here in the first place, it's our school,'' said CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge senior Neveen Farag. ``We're not so happy about having the KKK here on campus, but it's our school and we can do whatever we want here.'' Hoisting a megaphone, Cal State Northridge student Scott Blugrind became an unofficial spokesman for the students leading the chants against the protesters. ``I'm opposed to them because the CSUN students came here (to the debate) as intelligent individuals to learn and observe,'' said Blugrind. ``But these punks, these hooligans were pushing up against the cops, getting in their faces, starting violence.'' BAMN protesters said they were back on campus Thursday to defend some of their members who were arrested Wednesday by the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . . ``We're demanding all charges be dropped,'' said BAMN's Yvette Felarca. ``We're here to denounce against the racist cop riot that was inflicted against students and demonstrators.'' While Wednesday's debate on affirmative action between Duke and Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. civil rights activist Joe Hicks Joe Hicks can refer to:
2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. officers arrested six people on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. . Still wary over the previous day's clashes, Cal State Northridge Police Chief Ed Harrison - flanked by student volunteer Community Service Officers and plainclothes plain·clothes or plain-clothes adj. Wearing civilian clothes while on duty to avoid being identified as police or security: a plainclothes detective. campus officers - immediately stepped in Thursday to separate the angry groups. By 1 p.m., BAMN protesters folded their cloth banner, collected their posters and left - as students clapped and cheered. Questioned about the Police Department's reaction to Wednesday's clash, LAPD Chief Willie L. Williams Willie L. Williams (born 1 October, 1943) was chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from 1992 to 1997, taking over after chief Daryl Gates' resignation following the 1992 Los Angeles riots. said his officers had a ``measured'' response and prevented the situation from getting entirely out of hand. ``All in all, in terms of LAPD's response, I'm extremely pleased,'' Williams told reporters. ``It was a very difficult situation. It certainly could have become much more explosive than it was, particularly with the outside agitators. They made it known they were there to stop and disrupt the process.'' Among the six people arrested Wednesday were Eric Russell Wilson, 29, of Los Angeles; Able Correa, 20, of Los Angeles; Michael McDougall, 24, of San Fernando; Sergio Gutierrez, 22, of Lake View Terrace; and Edward Salvador Vasquez, 20, of Berkeley. A 17-year-old Los Angeles boy, whose name was withheld, also was booked on suspicion of injuring a police horse. Police identified only one of the six, Wilson, as a Cal State Northridge student. ``We had extremely good cooperation from the student body,'' Williams said. ``They did not participate. They did not, in general, lend any encouragement to the people who were trying to disrupt.'' In all, 152 LAPD officers were called onto the campus Wednesday to back up about 30 Cal State officers in a deployment that will cost the city thousands of dollars, said LAPD spokesman Mike Partain. The tab for Cal State University police is expected to come to $3,000, with the Associated Students already having allocated $968 for debate security, said CSUN police chief Harrison. Cal State Northridge student body President Vladimir Cerna said he was pleased with the debate. ``The people inside were well-behaved and respected both presenters, and that's all we were responsible for,'' said Cerna. ``Outside we couldn't prevent citizens from using their First Amendment rights to assemble.'' Cerna contended that the problems were caused by outsiders, not students. Despite the scuffles and confrontations, CSUN President Blenda Wilson said she does not believe that the university's image will suffer from what happened on campus Wednesday. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO CSUN student Scott Blugrind, left, gets face to facewith Bay Area activists Yvette Felarca, center, and Heather Bergman on Thursday. Michael Owen Baker/Daily News |
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