Her husband was knocked unconscious.
Posted on 02/09/2017 12:03:25 PM PST by markomalley
A small blonde woman, who was filmed being beaten and pepper sprayed by violent leftists during the UC Berkeley riots is speaking out.
“Katrina” says she and her husband both suffered concussions.
Her husband was knocked unconscious.
The university police did nothing.
Minding the Campus reported:
“Katrina “(no last name listed) an attractive young woman who seems to be in her twenties, appears in a YouTube video, “I was assaulted at the UC Berkeley Anti-Milo Riot.” She and her husband arrived at the site of the scheduled speech early (around 5:30 for the 8 p.m. event) prepared for violence (both were wearing Kevlar vests) but nothing marked them as Trump or Milo fans—her politics are “more on the left,” she says. The police were already inside the building, behind closed doors, making no apparent effort to maintain order, though they had already given an order for the early arrivers to disperse.
By that time, Katrina says, the protesters had already started fires, one in the middle of the road, another by pulling down the generator that provided light, setting it afire. If her time frame is correct, it meant that Berkeley police apparently had time to call for reinforcements to control an already ugly scene. As the crowd grew, she and her husband both suffered concussions, she by falling hard trying to climb over two barricades to escape the crowd, he by being beaten with a heavy metal rod while lying helpless on the ground. She says she was separated from him and thought he was dead. He spent the whole next day at a hospital, fearing permanent liver damage but, Katrina says, it was “only” two broken ribs (wielded heavily enough that the Kevlar was apparently not much protection).
After she was pepper sprayed (the video shows another woman in a Trump cap being pepper-sprayed in the face from a distance of about two feet, as she was talking to a TV reporter) Katrina and another woman appealed to the police to let them into the building to wash the spray from their eyes, but the police wouldn’t open the door and wouldn’t come out.
The Berkeley police have a more benign explanation for their behavior. They said some police were on the scene, firing paintballs at violent people to mark them for future arrest. Staying in the closed building, where no violence was going on is harder to explain, but a police spokeswoman said their appearance before the crowd would have escalated things, and that to start arresting people, would have required “up to three” police officers for each arrest. No explanation for why police didn’t bring a paddy wagon—if Katrina and her husband were wearing protective vests, violence could not have come as a total surprise. Berkeley Chancellor Nichols Dirks should be asked why campus cops or outside security forces weren’t there as well.
Katrina was interviewed in the video by Stefan Molyneux, 50, a Canadian pro-Trump blogger affiliated with Freedomain/freedomainradio.com/I, which appears to be a sort of anarcho-libertarian site, heavy on philosophy and theory. Molyneux sympathized with Katrina,” venturing the opinion that the violence “reveals a lot about the left.” Katrina said it appeared that maybe 300 people in the crowd were violent, not the estimated 100 or 150.
“Katrina” spoke about her horrific experience with Stefan Molyneux.
I betcha the cops would have come out in a heartbeat if an attacked Trump-friendly CCP holder opened fire on the Leftwing attackers.
Police are not there to protect you.
They are there to protect those in power and to clean up the mess afterwards.
Get armed. Be willing to defend yourself with lethal force.
Sue the mayor and his police chief in civil court for protecting rioters and not citizens during the riot.
It was a riot not a protest!
Get a team of those accident chasing lawyers, who advertise on local tv to take your cases.
Note to others: Kevlar by itself is not knife or bludgeon proof.
Police are not required to assist you. This fact is greatly misunderstood.
These two are about to be very wealthy.
Sue! And sue the mayor too, as he apparently gave a stand down order to the police.
“I betcha the cops would have come out in a heartbeat if an attacked Trump-friendly CCP holder opened fire on the Leftwing attackers.”
Nah! The Bezerkley Keystone Kops would had filled their Depends and fled into the buildings, locking the doors behind them.
Police have a disincentive to do anything or arrest anyone in these events. 100% expense and liability if they take anyone into custody. So no arrests will be made.
Sue Janet Nappy too.
The police could have been ordered to hand out kittens and it would not matter. The police are not around to protect or serve anyone but their masters.
Part of the org plan is mutual protection, so every one that goes down takes at least one other off the board.
-PJ
“but a police spokeswoman said their appearance before the crowd would have escalated things”
If the police had appeared and shot a couple of attackers, I suspect the protesters would have rapidly dispersed.
I look forward to the updates on how Berkeley gets in more and more trouble, pays more in fines, fires people, resignations, arrests, conspiracy to commit assualt/riot...
paddy wagon ?
I am offended.
Civil suit time..
The police did what they were ordered to. The corrupt administration is responsible for allowing the neo-communists to unleash their violence on innocent people.
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