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Pole to head 

A Thursday afternoon fracas between two 36-year-olds in People’s Park took a violent turn when one of the pair picked up a long wooden pole and clouted the other over the head. 

Officers arrived in time to slap handcuffs on the attacker and summon paramedics to rush the victim to Alta Bates Hospital for treatment of lacerations to his cheek and nose, according to a statement by UC Berkeley Police Chief Victoria L. Harrison. 

Gun to head 

As one teenage gangbanger held a pistol to their victim’s head, three cohorts rifled through his pockets during a brazen robbery near Wellman Hall on the UC Berkeley Campus Sunday night. 

A quick response by campus police ended with arrests of all four teens identified as the robbers by the 34-year-old victim. 

The heist happened at 7:32 p.m. on Wickson Road just south of the building, according to a report by campus police. The robbery victim wasn’t hurt during the crime, police said.