Studied at the kitchen table in my apartment today for the whole day. It was incredibly hot and humid the whole day. In the afternoon, I looked out the window and saw a group of people surrounding a person and beating him. I called sean over, and we tried to determine whether we should take action.

When sean came over, the attackers had left, but while I went to get my camera for evidence, sean saw them return and drag the guy on the ground a little. At that point, he called the berkeley police, and within a minute there were multiple cop cars and bicycle cops swarming peoples park.

I noticed that one of the main attackers was talking calmly to the police officers, and then was allowed to walk away, so sean and I went down to tell the officers what we saw. We weren't very comfortable talking in people's park, so the officer took us around the corner, and we had a brief conversation. He took down our contact info and asked me to email him my photos. Sadly, I didn't get any good photographs of the attacker's face, and I wouldn't be able to recognize any faces if they were presented to me. I did get pictures of other people looting the guy's pockets while he was hurt and on the ground. An ambulance took him away, and later the police report said that the victim suffered "minor injuries." From what I witnessed, the injuries definitely weren't minor.

While we were talking to the officers outside our apartment, josh and chris came arrived, and were surprised to see us talking to police officers. After staring at us for a while, they went upstairs. After we were done talking, we went up to their apartment, but pretended that we were the ones in trouble.

Sean said, "Uh... Can you not tell anyone about this for now?...".

Josh looked really worried for us, and said, "Sure... Do you guys want to come in and talk about it?". We went in, laughed, and told them the real story.

I'm really impressed at how quickly the police responded to the call. They were at the park before Sean got off the phone, and quite a few showed up in less than a minute. Twas very impressive.

Joseph had a final exam at 8am this morning. He woke up at 6am, went out to the living room to study, but fell asleep again on the sofa. Somehow (by God's grace), he woke up exactly at 8am, realized what time it was, grabbed some necessities, and ran out the door towards campus. On the way to campus, he didn't know where he was going, since he was planning on checking the room location in the morning. Thus, he called some classmates while he was running in the direction of campus and found out the test location. Somehow, he managed to arrive on time right before the test was administered.