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Former poet laureate Robert Hass pushed around by police at Berkeley protests

Originally Published: November 11, 2011

This video from KTVU shows, at 1:13, Robert Hass in the human chain of protesters at Berkeley getting pushed around by police with batons.

(News comes via Aaron Bady @zunguzungu)

NPR has more on the protests, and the San Francisco Chronicle has more on the UC police's use of batons.