Occupy UC Davis protesters encircle the tents set up on the Quad that the chancellor asked campus to police remove Friday afternoon. Wayne Tilcock/Enterprise photo
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I sincerely hope parents of the kids get involved too and demand action against leadership! As far as the police force involved I simply have no idea how we can retain any kind of future respect for them in this country, they have some major national soul searching to do!
UC Davis ows it’s community severe action, personally I would withdraw and find alternative options!
What a disgusting display of violence. If the police keep this up, somebody is going to be provoked to retaliatory violence, and we will end up with another Kent State. Over what? People sitting on the ground? Pepper spray is not merely painful. It can kill asthmatics and, in certain conditions, others. It is not legal for use in warfare. The whole world is seeing the YouTube videos of this attack. I certainly hope lawsuits will be filed against the perpetrators.
Do you notice how the video picks up almost *exactly* at the use of the pepper spray? Thank goodness for this article that supports statements from other eyewitnesses say reveal that the UCD cops had arrested someone and were trying to get to their car when the crowd moved to block their access to the patrol car. When the cops asked the crowd to move, they refused. They asked them to disperse, they refused. The cops then warned them that if they didn’t comply with their lawful order they would be pepper sprayed (which you can actually SEE on the edited video and in the photos, the cop bending down and warning the protesters). The crowd would not comply. So they got pepper sprayed. Big freakin’ deal. This same crowd didn’t give a flying fart when Iran’s mullahs unleashed Hezbollah killers and their Basiji Gestapo units on protesters using meat axes, clubs and firearms, butchering hundreds. That’s oppression, folks, not some outnumbered and surrounded cops asking to get to their squad car and then using pepper spray on some spoiled brats blocking their path against a lawful order.
Students who violate the law and defy the police deserve to be arrested, or pepper-sprayed. It is not by accident that this video (and many others) begins with the pepper spraying. Protesters often intentionally try to paint the police as “violent” or using tactics that seem to be over-the-top. But when we see what preceded the use of pepper spray, it is easy to see why the pepper spray was needed. The police MUST keep the situation under control, or anarchy results.
It is important to remember that many protesters taunt the police and WANT to be arrested or pepper-sprayed, just so they can post a misleading video intending to turn the public against the police. This is a well-known tactic among “professional protesters” who are always on the fringe, eager to jump into any protest in order to foster chaos and violence.
THE SPRAY WAS AN EXECUTION–NOT A DETERRENT. MY DAVS AGGIES
DESERVED MORE THAN THIS.WHAT WAS CHANTED BY THE CROWD????====SHAME ON YOU——-AND A PROFESSOR WENT TO THE VICTIMS
WITH A JAR OF HEALING LIQUID FOR THEIR HURTING EYES.