EERIE: UC Davis Chancellor Katehi WALKS To Her Car

[Segami]

Run time: 02:39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8775ZmNGFY8   Posted on YouTube: November 20, 2011 By YouTube Member: lhfang86 Views on YouTube: 16992   Posted on DU: November 20, 2011 By DU Member: Segami Views on DU: 4256

 
BradBlog:

" The video above, shot and posted by Lee Fang, was taped this evening as UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi walked to her car while students lined the sidewalk and roadway, sitting and locking arms in complete silence. Their demonstration came on the heels of Katehi's support of the hyper-militarized UC Davis Police Department's outrageous and brutal use of pepper spray on dozens of compliant, peaceful Occupy demonstrators who were sitting in a circle, locking arms, on the campus quad yesterday.


We covered the shocking pepper spray incident, including the remarkable photographs and videos of the event, along with the calls for Katehi's resignation, earlier today here.


Fang's describes what happened leading to the haunting moment seen in the video above this way:

A pretty remarkable thing just happened. A press conference, scheduled for 2:00pm between the UC Davis Chancellor and police on campus, did not end at 2:30. Instead, a mass of Occupy Davis students and sympathizers mobilized outside, demanding to have their voice heard. After some initial confusion, UC Chancellor Linda Katehi refused to leave the building, attempting to give the media the impression that the students were somehow holding her hostage.

A group of highly organized students formed large gap for the chancellor to leave. They chanted “we are peaceful” and “just walk home,” but nothing changed for several hours. Eventually student representatives convinced the chancellor to leave after telling their fellow students to sit down and lock arms.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8933

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[CoffeeCat]

1. Wow, that was powerful...

Silence has a way of allowing the truth to hang in the air.

[Segami]

3. There is a sense of serious resolve and determination displayed by this effective silence.

Very powerful indeed.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. "that was the loudest silence I ever heard"

said someone on the Youtube page.
And indeed, it was.
She HAD to have felt the waves of contempt. Her face certainly indicated she was getting the message.

[KansDem]

4. True

I wonder if any of the students stood or sat with their backs to her?

Very powerful statement!

[snappyturtle]

2. Brilliant! K&R nt

[joanbarnes]

5. Dead Chancellor walking!

[DWinNJ]

6. A report I read said the opposite

From the NY Times

“The use of pepper spray as shown on the video is chilling to us all and raises many questions about how best to handle situations like this,” Ms. Katehi wrote. Her statement said that she was forming a task force and asking university officials to review existing policies about encampments like the one that was erected on the campus this week.

“While the university is trying to ensure the safety and health of all members of our community, we must ensure our strategies to gain compliance are fair and reasonable and do not lead to mistreatment,” Ms. Katehi wrote.

[W T F]

7. Walking a gauntlet of shame.

[Marnie]

8. Nothing eerie about it at all. She walked past students and

probably faculty in perfect safety.

It is just as it should be, except of course she has just had those same students and faulty attacked and many arrested.

What is creepy is her unwillingness to speak to her students or even to acknowledge their presence, or even to address or be grateful for the peacefulness of their presence.

This was a moment when she could have "unofficially" interacted with her students, and she pretended they were even there.

She blew the moment. She is not a leader of people, especially not a leader of students, she is an ivory tower bureaucrat.

[stlsaxman]

9. This is what toast looks like.

[knowlesi]

10. My own open letter to Chancellor Katehi

Chancellor Katehi,

I am writing to you today on what I feel is a matter of utmost importance. My grandfather Paulden Knowles, a world renowned agronomist who developed safflower oil all over the world, taught as a professor at UC Davis. Likewise my father Douglas Knowles Q.C. (queens council) graduated from UC Davis with a law degree.

My family's ties to Davis have been long standing and over the years they have given in many different ways to the Davis community.

Take the Paulden F. & Dorathea I. Knowles Agronomy scholarship for Undergraduates for example:

This award was established in 1991 through a major gift from Dorathea Knowles and gifts from friends and colleagues of the late Paulden F. Knowles. Dr. Knowles was a world renowned and highly respected member of the Department of Agronomy and Range Science. His accomplishments as a teacher and oil crops breeder were widely recognized by the scientific and industrial community interested in the world’s oil crops.

As you can see my family's ties to Davis are long standing and until today I had hoped to pursue my law degree at Davis as well, following in my fathers footsteps. Your actions and statements regarding the protesters on the quad, who were violently attacked and pepper sprayed in the face when sitting peacefully illustrate your lack of concern for student and staff safety on the the Davis campus.

I can say with complete certainty that if my grandfather was alive today, your actions and lack of duty you've shown in your position of authority would horrify him. As it stands you very well may have caused my father to roll over in his grave.

I am absolutely sorry to say that if you retain your position as UC Davis Chancellor, then I will not be attending Davis as my law school of choice. It has never been my wish to attend an institution that demonstrates such little regard for the well being or safety of their staff and students.

As you clearly have not looked into what actually took place, I have taken the time to attach a video in which the incident is highlighted. Even watching it again still sickens me. I am horrified that it was you (that should be protecting students and staff) who caused this and even further, tried to justify it after the fact.

Sincerely,

Ian Knowles

[PDJane]

12. The fact that so many people now carry mulit-use items

that will take video, and that as a matter of course, is making it harder for these people to get away with the lies.

By the way, this woman comes across as a really, really, snobbish type...one who doesn't care about her students or anyone else, no matter what she says.

I am apalled.

[Celebration]

13. that was so amazing n/t

[peace13]

14. Peace and quiet...a beautiful thing! n/t

[timefortherevolution]

15. This is what $50-60k worth of student debt buys you UC Davis!

[nadine_mn]

16. What was the part about they (Chancellor and staff) requested that the students

be silent and respectful of her?

Is that bullshit? When someone is questioning Katehi about feeling threatened a woman said "we asked that the students be silent and respectful"

So it is made to sound like the students didn't decide to be silent but that it was the chancellor (or staff) who "negotiated" silence.

It could just be their spin, I just found that comment on the video to be odd.

[timefortherevolution]

17. You nailed it...I felt that it was sort of like the peasants bowing down in the presence of the quee

[gateley]

18. Yeah, I didn't get that either. I'd thought it was the idea of the

protesters until I heard that woman she was with. She said it twice. I wondered if it meant to be respectful to the students who'd been sprayed, but maybe that was hoping for too much.

Either way, that had to have been painful for her, which delights me to no end.

[PDJane]

19. She puffed up the whole deal.........

a hostage situation that wasn't.

The respectful silence they asked for (through 'interfaith negotiators, not directly) came out as deserved contempt.

[gateley]

21. What/who was the respectful silence FOR? nt

[PDJane]

22. It was asked for to give the chancellor a chance to

get to her car without being accosted by democracy.

[stlsaxman]

20. "We asked that it be "a silent, respectful exit"????

so- the protesters were doing the chancellors bidding? i don't think so!

:wow: