(09-09) 13:48 PDT BERKELEY -- With a short jump onto a scaffolding platform, four tree-sitters peacefully ended a 649-day standoff with UC Berkeley on Tuesday over the university's plan to cut down a grove of trees to build an athletic training center.
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The protesters voluntarily climbed down from an 80-foot redwood next to Memorial Stadium about 1:30 p.m. after four hours of negotiations with UC Police Chief Victoria Harrison as she hung in a basket suspended from a 200-foot-tall crane.
After shouting "We love you!" to a crowd of about 500 supporters and onlookers on the ground, the sitters surrendered to police, who arrested them on misdemeanor charges of trespassing, violating a court order and illegal lodging. They were taken to Santa Rita Jail in Dublin......(more)
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