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Students File Formal Complaint Against DPS

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Andrew Dunn, Daily Tar Heel Blogs (University of North Carolina), May 4, 2009

A group of students, faculty and community members have filed a formal complaint against the Department of Public Safety for police use of force at the April 14 protest of former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo’s speech and into the arrest of student Haley Koch nine days after the event.

[Editor’s Note: Other stories related to the disruption of Mr. Tancredo’s appearance at UNC are listed here. A story concerning the arrest of Haley Koch may be found here.

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Formal Complaint Final

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(Posted on May 5, 2009)

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1 — Question Diversity wrote at 6:12 PM on May 5:

Does Tom Tancredo or Virgil Goode have the right to make a formal complaint against the students and/or the professors that egged them on for trying to harass them?

2 — aj wrote at 12:35 AM on May 6:

The cops were infringing on their first amendment rights to demand the denial first amendment right to people with wrong ideas. What is so hard to understand?

3 — Southern Hoosier wrote at 6:35 AM on May 6:

“Does Tom Tancredo or Virgil Goode have the right to make a formal complaint against the students and/or the professors that egged them on for trying to harass them?”
Posted by Question Diversity at 6:12 PM on May 5

Probably, but I think Tancredo and Goode are long past this type of childish behavior.

4 — smartracist wrote at 10:27 AM on May 6:

If the police were actually tackling people who were leaving in a reasonable speed, or pepper spraying them, then the police were violating their rights.

You have a right to try to speak over other people so that they can’t be heard, even though it is dishonorable.

Being rude and not fairly debating, is not illegal. Detaining people without enough reason to believe they have committed a crime is.

Next time they should have an overhead projection so that if the crowd shouts too loud the people can be allowed to type their questions and the speaker can type his replies. This way everyone can still at least read the debate.

Either that or use a really good PA system that can be heard over the chanting, and have the speaker appear only virtually.


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