As I said the other night to the protesters, you cannot do a citizen's arrest in the state of California without witnessing the crime. Of course Henry Watkins denies spraying the thugs, but he did, well done.
From the Claremont Courier:
The speech ended around 7:50 p.m. but Mr. Rove did not leave the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum until at least 9:15 p.m. Protesters blockaded the building’s exits and sat in front of transport vehicles while chanting “war criminal!” and “arrest Karl Rove!”
The students were staging a citizen’s arrest against Mr. Rove on grounds of election fraud, conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud the United States for false information leading to the war in Iraq, felony murder and treason.
“Private persons making arrests must have direct knowledge that the person to be arrested has committed a felony,” said Claremont Police Lieutenant Shelly Vander Veen. “This knowledge [must] come by means of being a witness immediately present during the acts or a victim and this knowledge cannot come from browsing the Internet, watching television, or reading books. No such evidence was presented to the police.”
Mr. Rove did eventually make it out the building after police arrived in riot gear. Pomona College senior Todd Logan, who was at the scene, said that security guards in suits “busted down a door with Karl Rove behind them.”
“They shoved a girl out of the way and they ran him to the car,” Mr. Logan added.
Lt. Vander Veen denied that any law enforcement officers or college security used pepper spray. But Pitzer College students Ramon Martinez and Chris Wohlers, and at least 2 others, were reported suffering from pepper spray and treated at the scene by paramedics. They pointed the finger at Henry Watkins, a Claremont McKenna College security consultant.
Mr. Watkins told students and reporters that at 7:31 p.m. someone called in a bomb threat, saying, “Hello, you’re going to die tonight. There’s a bomb in Collins [Dining Hall].”
According to Mr. Watkins, the dining hall was evacuated of employees and the threat was cleared by 10 p.m. No bomb was located.
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California Penal Code 837
A private person may arrest another: 1. For a public offense committed or attempted in his presence. 2. When the person arrested has committed a felony, although not in his presence. 3. When a felony has been in fact committed, and he has reasonable cause for believing the person arrested to have committed it.
1. No offense was committed in your presence.
2. No offense that the person has committed a felony as a felony implies actual evidence.
3. No reasonable cause for believing Rove has committed a felony based upon reporting of a newspaper or press.
Nice try, though.
i am sickened to share the air i breathe with the fascist, ignorant person who wrote this article.
The cops were gutless in this instance. Don't they know what rubber bullets are for? (Hell, maybe a couple lead ones thrown in for good measure were in order.)
Are you actually suggesting that unarmed students be shot at during a peaceful protest? If that is the case, you do not deserve to be a member of the Claremont community or a citizen of this country.
Emma, if I catch someone destroying my property, he will get shot. I have that right. If someone is destroying the college's property, a rubber bullet in backside will send the right message. An appropriately placed billy club would do the trick as well.
To the anon that said shoot the kids with rubber bullets. HAHAH! I <3 you. Seriously, reading that made my day. To emma, he has every right to be in this community. If I caught someone vandalizing my property, I'll knife him in the back then shoot him.
Oh yea, I wouldn't prefer billy clubs. That can get messy. Rubber bullets and tear gas for the win.
Hey emma, what's this "peaceful protest" crap? Did you even read the article? These "peaceful protesters" were criminal property destroying scumbags who all deserved a good old fashioned ass kicking, followed by about 200 hours of community service to pay for their damages.
Maybe if one of the 5C's International students said the pool of blood reminded him of the travesties in his home country and he was "offended and it was insensitive" then President Trombly might get her head out of the sand..........el_Guapo
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