This is important. Pepper spray should only ever be used to pacify a dangerous suspect. In this case it is being administered as a punishment, in clear violation of the 8th amendment and Article Five of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Activist were peacefully protesting on their campus at University of California, Davis Quad.
Friday afternoon police showed up in riot gear to disperse the protesters by using pepper spray at point-blank range.
The officer who pepper-sprayed UC Davis students is Lt. John Pike. Give his PD a call. 530-752-1727
That’s fucking disgraceful
the video is so much worse
Seriously, it doesn’t matter where you stand on all of this - that video is so wrong. Police brutality at a public university? Come on. So glad we live in an era where everything is recorded, someone needs to be held responsible for shit like this.
I don’t understand how anyone could be anti-occupy, even the cop who did this should be fighting along side the protestors, because it affects even him.
Activist were peacefully protesting on their campus at University of California, Davis Quad. Friday afternoon police...