“They didn’t come to lock arms and sing ‘Kumbaya,’” said Dan Mogulof, assistant vice chancellor and spokesman for the UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley officials are now talking with federal and local law enforcement agencies about how to address black bloc tactics, which first appeared in Europe in the 1980s but have grown increasingly common in the United States in recent years. But even though there was only one arrest Wednesday night, Berkeley officials insist the incident was something altogether new. “We have never seen this on the Berkeley campus,” Mogulof said. He said “it’s not about limiting free speech,” but about protecting the students and campus.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 05, 2017 17:22 UTC