Comes to cal in two days. And tonight prot now at 11 00, this conservative commentator comes to cal in two days. Tonight protesters have a very good reason to keep the peace. Good evening im elizabeth cook. Im ken bastida. Tonight police in berkeley have a new tool to reign in the rioters. Joe vazquez reports. The city just gave their officers the power to pepper spray. We have those on the left and the right who agree. It was a heated contentious emergency meeting of the berkeley city council. Please do not walk down this path of unintended consequences. Reporter as the mayor proposed changing the police use of force policy. We need to solve this problem and it needs to be solved in a way that prevents those to gain a stronghold. Reporter to allow police to use pepper spray on a crowd. This will be the right thing. Preventing people from getting physically hit. Reporter so far this year there has been one violent crash after another in berkeley. The mayor and police chief say they nee
Spray. We have those on the left and the right who agree. It was a heated contentious emergency meeting of the berkeley city council. Please do not walk down this path of unintended consequences. Reporter as the mayor proposed changing the police use of force policy. We need to solve this problem and it needs to be solved in a way that prevents those to gain a stronghold. Reporter to allow police to use pepper spray on a crowd. This will be the right thing. Preventing people from getting physically hit. Reporter so far this year there has been one violent crash after another in berkeley. The mayor and police chief say they need to allow cops to use pepper spray not for crowd dispersal, but only when demonstrators get violent. Reporter the City Council Approved the measure 63. This is a tool we are being granted to trust in our council and community to use for those very difficult, violent confrontations that may occur in the future. Reporter for example thursday, ben shapiro is schedul