By now, many have seen the footage of the police beating students and faculty during the Occupy Berkeley demonstrations.
Here is another lens for that assault, this time through the eyes of Robert Hass, former poet laureate of the United States and Berkeley professor of poetry and poetics. His account is published in the New York Times. Having heard that the police had beaten students, Hass and his wife went down to the Occupy site to observe and do something to protect the students.