On January 19, 2012, the regents of the University of California had
their quarterly meeting at UC Riverside. 400 students and workers
demonstrated the Regents and demanded a reversal to the privatization of
the university, tuition hikes, and budget cuts, and the increasing
structural inequalities at the University of California. Demonstrators
demanded that the regents, who were in a closed meeting, listen to them
but they were met with violence from the police and deputy sheriff's
department. Several students were jabbed with batons and paint ball
pellets were fired into the crowd.