From The San Francisco Chronicle:
Dozens of police in riot gear confronted anti-Wall Street protesters at the University of California at Berkeley as the demonstrators tried to establish an encampment on campus.
Television news footage from outside the university’s main administration building late Wednesday night showed officers pulling people off the steps and nudging others with batons as the crowd chanted, “We are the 99 percent!” and “Stop Beating Students!”
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the officers eventually formed a perimeter around the steps of the building, but there was no word of any arrests in the action by early Thursday.
As the evening wore on, the crowd appeared to be swelling as protesters debated whether to stay overnight. The student newspaper The Daily Californian reported that some people from the Occupy Oakland protest were joining the Berkeley demonstrators.
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