(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Television news footage from outside the university's building showed the crowd chanting "We are the 99 percent!" and "Stop Beating Students!” as officers pulled students from the steps or pushed them with batons.
The police arrested 32 people on allegations of resisting and delaying police officers in the performance of their duties and failing to disperse.
Earlier in the day, campus police dismantled a small encampment students had set up arresting seven people- six students and one faculty member.
The Students' move to set up a campus branch of the Occupy Wall Street camps around the country came after hundreds of Berkeley students accompanied by teachers and Berkeley residents rallied on campus before marching peacefully to a Bank of America branch.
"It just seems unnecessary. We weren't doing anything. We were just standing there with a bunch of tents," Shadrick Small, one of the students trying to block police from dismantling the camp, said.
"And their first response is just to come in and start hitting people. The reaction is just over the top."
The US police have arrested hundreds of people in recent weeks for participating in anti-wall street demonstrations, which have been continuing in different parts of the US for nearly two months.
The demonstrators blame Wall Street for America's economic problems and accuse the US government of stealing their money to save bankrupt banks.
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