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UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike uses pepper spray to move Occupy UC Davis protesters who were blocking officers' attempts to remove arrested protesters from the Quad on Friday afternoon. Wayne Tilcock/Enterprise photo
UC Davis police move protesters who were attempting to block the removal of other protesters who had been arrested when officers took down their tents on the UC Davis Quad on Friday afternoon. Wayne Tilcock/Enterprise photo
UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike uses pepper spray to move Occupy UC Davis protesters who were blocking officers' attempts to remove arrested protesters from the Quad on Friday afternoon. Wayne Tilcock/Enterprise photo
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
Occupy UC Davis protesters including David Buscho, far left, react after being pepper sprayed by police who came to remove tents set up on the Quad. Wayne Tilcock/Enterprise photo
Protesters chant after UC Davis police leave the Quad on Friday afternoon. Wayne Tilcock/Enterprise photo
Occupy UC Davis protesters move to encircle the UC Davis police after arrests had been made during the removal of tents placed on the Quad by the protestors on Friday. Wayne Tilcock/Enterprise photo
Approximately 200 students stopped to watch as the UC Davis police removed tents set up by the Occupy UC Davis protest on the Quad. Wayne Tilcock/Enterprise photo
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Occupy protester David Buscho is helped after being pepper sprayed by campus police while blocking their exit from the Quad on Friday afternoon. Wayne Tilcock/Enterprise photo
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UC Davis police lead away one of the arrested protesters through a crowd of onlookers on the Quad. Wayne Tilcock/Enterprise photo
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Students remove one of the 29 tents set up on the Quad as part of the Occupy UC Davis movement before a deadline by campus police to move the tents or face arrest. Wayne Tilcock/Enterprise photo
UC Davis police move protesters out of the way as they attempt to remove tents set up on the Quad as part of the Occupy UC Davis movement on Friday afternoon. Wayne Tilcock/Enterprise photo
UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike warns protesters they may be pepper sprayed if they did not give police a clear path to remove other protesters who had been arrested earlier in the protest. Wayne Tilcock/Enterprise photo

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  1. [...] the video above, you see a police officer [Update: UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike] walk down a line of those young people seated quietly on the ground in an act of nonviolent civil [...]

  2. I’m confused, how can you pepper spray them to the point of blindness and expect them to move when they can not see? Pepper spray is for defense not offense. Way to go Pike, you may have just cost your department millions in lawsuits.

  3. This is barbaric what happened to freedom of speech and peaceful protest, these students are protesting for your childrens futures. I dont know what is happening to this world when the people we pay to protect us can be so abusive in a non violent situation.SHAME ON YOU AND THE PEOPLE WHO LET YOU GET AWAY WITH THIS.

  4. [...] A news account captured the officer on camera spraying the students. The account names the officer as UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike. He did not return a voice mail message nor an email left Friday night. His voice-mail box eventually filled up to capacity as his name and phone number were posted on Twitter. [...]

  5. [...] I first stumbled across these images, which led me to this on boingboing. A bit of background: UC Davis students were protesting a [...]

  6. [...] of corporations, their ruling moguls, and OWS police officers, it seems that Americans must turn to alternative news sources – including foreign news media – to get accurate reports of the other side of the [...]

  7. [...] word nonetheless on disciplinary movement for UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike, a officer who wielded a mist can “as if he’s dousing a quarrel of bugs with insecticide.” [...]

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