Angry protests erupt as UC Berkeley fences off People’s Park for housing construction
by Jessica Garrison and Stuart Leavenworth, Los Angeles Times
Aug 03, 2022
2 minutes
BERKELEY, Calif. — As a team of police officers in riot gear kept watch in the predawn darkness, University of California, Berkeley construction workers fenced off historic People’s Park early Wednesday, the first step of a plan to turn the symbol of 1960s counterculture into housing for students and the homeless.
A group of protesters immediately confronted the police and construction crews, shaking the mental fences, with some jumping over
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