Gallery: Students condemn council member over leaked photo
More than 30 people, many of whom are members of the Afrikan Student Union, gathered in front of Bruin Bear to plan chants for the upcoming Undergraduate Student Association Council meeting.
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Sherrae Hayes, the project director for Students Heightening Academic Performance through Education at UCLA, confronts an ASUCLA supervisor. Many students were stopped from entering Kerckhoff 417 because of safety concerns.
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Alicia Frison, a fourth-year African American studies student and the chair of the Afrikan Student Union, speaks during the public comment session. A photo of USAC President Danny Siegel making a hand sign associated with the Bloods, a primarily African American street gang, was leaked online over the weekend.
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''Our neighborhood is predominantly a Crips neighborhood,'' said Martin Martinez Saldaña, a third-year political science and Chicana/o studies student, who went to the same high school as Siegel. ''He should have understood the dangers of such a symbol.''
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The door to the council meeting was kept open to let students outside listen to the speakers.
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Robert Gardner, a fourth-year political science and African American studies student, admonished the council for time restrictions on public comment.
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Gardner's supporters chant for more public commenting time. They said the council's policies were silencing their voices.
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Siegel was often forced to pause since commenters frequently broke into chants.
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Council members not part of the Bruins United slate showed solidarity with public commenters during chants.
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Gardner passes around the public comment sign-in sheet to students outside. Multiple additional speakers signed on for public comment. The council entered a five-minute recess after more commenting.
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Frison responds in an interview with Fox 11 News during a five-minute recess called by the council.
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The council continued to hotly debate Siegel's actions for hours after the recess.
