CUNY Brooklyn College Students Roughed Up by Police for
Demanding Fairer Treatment  Thursday, 03 May 2012 15:25 By Sarah
Jaffe, AlterNet | Report   • Print   • Email    It took police,
batons and riot cuffs to do that.        These peaceful students
are not leaving by Sarah Jaffe    During the scrum in the
hallway, one student, Cecelia Adams, already walking with a cane
after having her feet broken in a clash with cops at last fall's
tuition fee protests at CUNY's Baruch College, had her cane
taken from her and thrown down the hall. A slim young woman, she
told me she'd been grabbed by a cop who wouldn't let her go as
she fought to breathe--”He was squeezing me to death”--and that
she was on medical leave from the university after her injuries
in last fall's actions, was supposed to start classes again in
the summer but because of cutbacks, the university had cancelled
83 of its planned summer offerings.  "I think that it was made
really clear that President Gould would rather lock down the
campus and have st