Friday, March 4, 2011

UC Berkeley Students Mix It Up with Riot Cops During Education Funding Protest

Eight UC Berkeley students locked themselves together with plastic pipe on the fourth floor ledge of Wheeler Hall  on Thursday March 3, 2011 to protest state cuts to education and tuition increases. The protesters came down later that night. (Photo by Doug Oakley)

Riot police from Berkeley, UC Berkeley and surrounding cities beat back student protesters standing in front of the entrances to Wheeler Hall on campus on Thursday March 3. (Photo By Doug Oakley)

UC Berkeley students, angry over tuition increases and state budget cuts to education, battled riot police at Wheeler Hall on campus on Thursday March 3, 2011. (Photo by Doug Oakley)
A UC Berkeley student winces after being hit in the face by riot police at Wheeler Hall on campus on Thursday March 3, 2011. (Photo by Doug Oakley)
Krystof Lopaur, a UC Berkeley graduate student rallies students protesting tuition increases and budget cuts shortly before riot police moved in and beat back students away from Wheeler Hall on Thursday March 3, 2011. (Photo by Doug Oakley)






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