Police pepper spray students protesting tuition hikes in California
On Tuesday, dozens of students were pepper sprayed by campus police at Santa Monica College while protesting outside a Board of Trustees meeting. - At least two people were hospitalized and several others injured when a crowd of 100 people tried to enter the room where the meeting was being held. Students were opposed to plans for a two-tier tuition scheme, whereby the college will charge students triple for popular courses that fill up quickly. Students said that pepper spray was used without any warning. “There is no way to justify this behavior by police officers,” Kayleigh Wade, a 19 year old Santa Monica College student and victim of the pepper spraying incident, said at a news conference on Wednesday.
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