UC Davis Bank Protestors Settle with Plea Deal, Get Community Service

The 11 students and one professor who were charged with misdeameanors after blockading the US Bank on UC Davis' campus have pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace infractions and agreed to do community service instead.

The Sacramento Bee and Davis Enterprise report each of the people charged will do 80 hours of community service.

A Yolo County District Attorney's Office official told both newspapers that authorities wanted the protestors to admit they had overstepped their legal rights by blocking the entrance to the bank.

"Our goal was to seek responsible protesting," Yolo County Assistant District Attorney Michael Cabral told the Bee.

A statement posted on a blog belonging to supporters of the UC protests celebrates the court action and criticizes the resources spent on the case.

"Evidence gathered via subpoena now shows a national network of high-priced attorneys, public relations executives, security professionals, and corporate administrators deployed, not to protect bank or university community, but to exact as much punishment as possible," the statement posted on Reclaim UC reads. "In the end, the UC administration, the bank, and the DA did not get their wish."

The Davis Enterprise asked the lone professor targeted in the case for his reaction. Read what he said here.

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