New School in Exile update
Yesterday, Friday April 10th, at about 6am a group of students from the New School in Exile took over a New School building with two simple demands: the resignation of New School President Bob Kerrey and full control the building as a free student space. By noon, most of the occupiers were gassed and arrested and are now sitting in jail. Bob Kerrey and the NYPD claim that some of the occupiers were violent, albeit NSIE claims otherwise. Regardless, I can't image that the NYPD were too civil themselves.
For more info and pics you can visit the New School in Exile's website here.
Angus at StudentActivism.net added a video to his blogging about the matter. The video, which is 1 minute and 59 seconds long was put out by the NYPD. For the video click here.
He writes:
It’s a little odd that the cops would think that posting video in which they weren’t beating or pepper-spraying people would serve as a defense against evidence that they beat and/or pepper-sprayed other people at a different stage of the day’s events. What’s really odd, though, is that the video is so short. If there was no police misconduct at any point during the arrests inside 65 Fifth, that’s great news. But if that’s the case, shouldn’t the cops release all the tape they have from inside the building, instead of just a two minute clip?
The fact that the NYPD youtube administrator has decided to disable all commenting on the video is also pretty questionable, since they only appear to do that for a select few videos. We're not idiots, right?
Anyhow, I think its amazing that Kerrey is still sticking around. If most of your students and a fair amount of your professors hate you and wish you would leave, and the only people who respect the legitimacy of your presidency are the officers of the NYPD, then don't you think it's time to find a new day job?
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