UC Davis pepper spray uproar
Video of police officers blasting seated protesters in the face with pepper spray has gone viral on the internet. The incident happened at the University of California, Davis, when students demonstrated in support for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Linda Katehi, Chancellor of the University of California, Davis, near Sacramento, says she is forming a task force to investigate what happened.
“The use of pepper spray as shown on the video is chilling to us all and raises many questions about how best to handle situations like this,” she said in a message on the university’s website.
The Davis Faculty Association, which represents academic staff, has condemned the University of California’s approach to protests on several different campuses.
“This week, we have seen excessive force used against non-violent protesters,” said a statement on the association’s website.
“Student, faculty and staff protesters have been pepper-sprayed directly in the eyes and mouth, beaten and shoved by batons, dragged by the arms while handcuffed, and submitted to other forms of excessive force.”
“The violence was unprovoked, disproportional and excessive,” it said.
MadMikesAmerica would like to thank the BBC and YouTube for contributions to this story.
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i hate them cops
them doing that .its just so WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m not happy about it either.
Cops were out of line. Now the haters are really going to town painting the cops all over the country with the broad brush of brutality. Fact is 99% (there’s that stat again) do one hell of a job putting their lives on the line everyday but you won’t hear anything about that from the haters. You’ll find those same cop haters are also Obama haters. Check out their FB pages and blogs if you want a real horror story.
I didn’t see it either Holte. I saw gratuitous spraying of OC. It infuriated me.
If the cops were spat upon, perhaps the demonstrators deserved to be pepper sprayed, but having watched extended video of the incident I could not see any evidence of such behavior.
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Those officers should be terminated. No doubt they were spat upon, called names, and perhaps even assaulted, but once the situation is under control there is NO reason to continue using intermediate weapons.