They chanted against cuts and fees outside trustees meeting
(NEWSER) - At least 30 Santa Monica College students were pepper-sprayed when they chanted outside a trustees meeting last night to protest budget cuts and fee hikes. "I got pepper-sprayed with no warning," said one student, 21, who had been standing in a hallway outside the meeting. A college spokesman, who noted pepper spray has never been used before on campus, said it was the "judgment of campus police that the crowd was getting out of hand," reports the AP . At least two people were taken to a nearby hospital. Others standing in the hallway were overcome by the spray that filled the enclosed space, reports the Los Angeles Times. More»
