BCSSA与CGPSA关于伯克利校园暴力抗议事件的联合声明
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昨日傍晚,加州大学伯克利分校发生了暴力抗议事件,一时间引起广泛关注和讨论,各个媒体也争相对此事件进行报道与评论。幸运的是,此次暴力事件没有造成严重伤亡,校园已恢复正常秩序。以下内容转载自BCSSA与CGPSA的联合报道,希望让大家对此事件有相对客观的了解,同时也提醒大家在自由表达观点的同时,保持冷静,注意安全。
第一,我们郑重澄清:
本次抗议中的暴力行为是中途加入的“约150位的蒙面煽动者”蓄意发起、实施(目前煽动者身份还未确定)。伯克利是Free Speech Movement即自由言论运动的发源地和坚定拥护者,和平抗议一直是伯克利学生的优良传统。
只有少位人员轻微受伤,并无严重伤亡。警方没有向人群实弹射击,全程中,警方都在极力维护演讲者、抗议学生、普通公众等所有人员的安全。
事件已结束,校园恢复正常。警方和校方全程实时向全校成员通报事态的进展,并给予安全提示。大约2月1日晚十点,警方通过手机短信警戒系统发送All Clear解除校园警报,并宣称第二天2月2日学校事务和课堂将照常进行。
第三,我们诚挚感谢中国驻旧金山总领事馆对此事件的密切关注和全程中对华人学生学者安危的关切。祖国永远是我们的坚强后盾,中国学联和中国领事馆将随时为华人学生学者提供支持和援助。
最后,我们恳请所有朋友,无论何时何地,一定注意安全!一定注意安全!一定注意安全!
cr. Ben Liu
黄昏,上千名学生聚集于Martin Luther King Student Union (以下简称MLK)前抗议Milo Yiannopoulos即将在MLK里面进行的演讲。Milo Yiannopoulos由学校社团「Berkeley College Republicans」邀请而来,以其反同性恋立场与白人至上主义著称。虽然Milo的立场与伯克利大多数群体相异,并在来之前的两个星期受到了全校100多个教授联名抗议,但是校方在事前发给所有学生的邮件中解释道:“我们尊重言论自由。作为一所公立院校,我们不能就言论的内容或观点(不同)而禁止其表达。”这也是对Free Speech的尊重。
此次抗议事件从2017年2月下午5点开始。在这个时间点后,人群开始聚集,学生们分别开始喊口号、布置灯光、挂标牌、举旗子。在下午6点前,学生们所进行的都是非暴力性抗议。
6点10分左右,警察在MLK的门口竖立围栏,并且一群防暴警察手持防暴盾牌挡在楼前。几分钟后,接近一百五十个蒙面的煽动者人群加入了抗议人潮。自此,人群开始向警察扔石块,并且有人冲上去和警察发生肢体冲突。
6:20时,人们开始向楼上发射烟火。与此同时,警察开始从二楼回击催泪弹。6:30时,群众在MLK门口放置易燃物,和写着Milo的名字的旗子,并点燃这些物品。警察在这段时间内,继续发射催泪弹。6:40左右,出事的路段被封锁,学校部分楼房被封锁,Milo的演讲活动正式宣布取消。
7:00时,警方用喇叭发送通知,所有人必须在10分钟之内离开,否则违反了加州的法律,会被逮捕。7:10时,全校学生收到短信,警方将加入额外警力资源,所有学生立刻离场。后续9点和11点左右,警方继续发出短信,在继续宣布清场的同时,告知学生,明日课业会继续。
以下摘自伯克利校方Berkeley News:
http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/02/01/yiannopoulos-event-canceled/
Amid an apparently organized violent attack and destruction of property at UC Berkeley’s Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, the UC Police Department (UCPD) determined it was necessary to evacuate controversial speaker Milo Yiannopoulos from campus and to cancel his scheduled 8 p.m. performance. Yiannopoulos had been invited by the Berkeley College Republicans.
At about 10 p.m., campus officials lifted the “shelter in place” order issued earlier in the evening and said Berkeley would be back to business as usual on Thursday. However, UCPD asked the community to be aware that protest activity was still occurring in the city of Berkeley and to avoid streets surrounding the campus.
The violence was instigated by a group of about 150 masked agitators who came onto campus and interrupted an otherwise non-violent protest.
The decision to cancel the event was made at about 6 p.m., and officers read several dispersal announcements to a crowd of more than 1,500 protesters who had gathered outside the student union, where Yiannopoulos was to speak. He immediately was escorted from the building and left campus.
Of paramount importance was the campus’s commitment to ensure the safety and security of those attending the event, the speaker, those who came to engage in lawful protest and members of the public and the Berkeley campus community.
Fires that were deliberately set, one outside the campus Amazon outlet; Molotov cocktails that caused generator-powered spotlights to catch fire; commercial-grade fireworks thrown at police officers; barricades pushed into windows and skirmishes within the crowd were among the evening’s violent acts.
The masked agitators came to campus eastbound on Bancroft Way, and fire damage and other destruction to the Stiles Hall construction site, where a new residence hall is planned, was reported. The group entered campus and immediately began throwing rocks at officers. In an effort to avoid injuries to innocent members of the surrounding crowd who might have been caught in the middle, police officers exercised restraint and did not respond with force.
Agitators also attacked some members of the crowd who were rescued by police. UCPD reported no major injuries and about a half dozen minor injuries. Mutual aid officers from the city of Oakland and from Alameda County arrived at Berkeley around 7:45 p.m. to assist UCPD and Berkeley city police.
Campus officials said they condemn in the strongest possible terms the violence and unlawful behavior that was on display and deeply regret that those tactics now overshadow the efforts of the majority to engage in legitimate and lawful protest against the performer’s presence at Berkeley and his perspectives.
UC Berkeley officials and UCPD went to extraordinary lengths to plan for this event, working closely with the Berkeley College Republicans and putting the appropriate resources in place to maintain security. Officials were in contact with other university campuses where Yiannopoulos had been asked to speak, and they paid close attention to lessons learned. Dozens of additional police officers were on duty for Wednesday’s scheduled event, and multiple methods of crowd control were in place. Ultimately, and unfortunately, however, it was impossible to maintain order given the level of threat, disruption and organized violence.
Campus officials added that they regret that the threats and unlawful actions of a few have interfered with the exercise of First Amendment rights on a campus that is proud of its history and legacy as the home of the Free Speech Movement.
In an earlier message to the Berkeley campus community, Chancellor Nicholas Dirks made it clear that while Yiannopoulos’ views, tactics and rhetoric are profoundly contrary to those of the campus, UC Berkeley is bound by the Constitution, the law and the university’s values and Principles of Community, which include the enabling of free expression across the full spectrum of opinion and perspective.
以上是关于2月1日伯克利校园暴力抗议事件的报导。我们再次提醒大家,保持冷静理智,勿信勿传谣言,注意安全人身安全!
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