Police mace the hell out of peaceful OWS protesters

[KlokWyze]

Something interesting the cop that sprayed those students makes over 110K a year, far more than most facaulty makes.

Yeah, officers make BANK. Plus, they can pretty much get away with anything and are worshiped as heroes by a considerable portion of the population. :wub:

 

[TecHNooB]

Yeah, officers make BANK. Plus, they can pretty much get away with anything and are worshiped as heroes by a considerable portion of the population. :wub:

I thought officers made jack squat, which is why they get huge discounts on housing.

 

[videogames101]

I thought officers made jack squat, which is why they get huge discounts on housing.

Entirely depends on location.

 

[FoBoT]

Video is pure lolz. Protesters honestly have it MUCH easier in the US compared to other countries when they are only crying about getting pepper sprayed.

like Syria? 300 people killed so far this month?
yeah, maybe that is why i thought the video was funny

 

[DCal430]

Entirely depends on location.

Here in Cali Officers make a shit ton of money, most retire making well over 100K a year and get a 100K+ pension for life. The typical starting pay for an officer here is from 50 to 70K a year depending on the local. This is straight out of the academy.

 

[yhelothar]

You could have stopped your post there. Apparently you weren't effected by the recession in any way. You must also not mind that politicians accept bribes from corporations to write legislation that benefit the corporations.

It's really hypocritical actually. You're citing examples of how the protesters are breaking the law and yet by opposing them you show that you agree with crimes being committed by people in the government and on wallstreet.

So really it's a matter of people like you wanting protesters to be held accountable for inconveniencing some people and creating a public disturbance...

The protesters want people to be held accountable for ruining the country.

So, when I put it that way it's not hard to see why people would back the protesters. Nobody has been held accountable for throwing the country into a recession via mass fraud. Nobody is held accountable in washington for serving corporations before serving their constituents.

Psshh it's a god given right for corporations to bribe politicians, not to mention American.

Damn those lazy hippies, always having things to whine about. When will they start bringing the tasers out? Bastards think they can disrupt people's lives just because they think the government should be more responsible.

So annoying!

 

[spidey07]

Psshh it's a god given right for corporations to bribe politicians, not to mention American.

Damn those lazy hippies, always having things to whine about. When will they start bringing the tasers out? Bastards think they can disrupt people's lives just because they think the government should be more responsible.

So annoying!

So why aren't they protesting government, this administration and congress? Hmm.....

 

[DCal430]

Psshh it's a god given right for corporations to bribe politicians, not to mention American.

Damn those lazy hippies, always having things to whine about. When will they start bringing the tasers out? Bastards think they can disrupt people's lives just because they think the government should be more responsible.

So annoying!

These protestors were protesting raising tuition for high income earners. They are so stupid they think the increase in tuition affects everyone when it doesn't. It only affects people who parents make over 90K a year, and even then the effect isn't total until they make well over 150K a year.

 

[dougp]

So why aren't they protesting government, this administration and congress? Hmm.....

I'd love to see them come up with a solution or fix to the government that will prevent human greed from corrupting it ...

 

[dwell]

These protestors were protesting raising tuition for high income earners. They are so stupid they think the increase in tuition affects everyone when it doesn't. It only affects people who parents make over 90K a year, and even then the effect isn't total until they make well over 150K a year.

So they were protesting something that only affects the upper middle class and above? Sort of opposite of OWS.

 

[SZLiao214]

From the article:

Police said pepper spray was only brought out when a small group of unusually confrontational protesters refused to get out of the street and stood in the path of MAX transit trains.

They have a right to protest peacefully.
They do not have a right to infringe on other peoples rights.

They asked for it and they got what they wanted.

I don't see the problem with them being sprayed. If they were blocking trains then they should have had much worse done to them.

 

[torpid]

There were dozens of people going in front of and then behind the students who were seated to get a good camera angle. It took them a marginally increased amount of time compared to if the area had been cleared. I'm not suggesting that the blockade didn't affect people, but if the people who were congested around the scene could easily get from point A to point B, it hardly makes sense to suggest that this was some sort of sophisticated berlin-wall-esque situation happening.

 

[airdata]

God bless you internet.

 

[SandEagle]

Sandeagle will repost this in a couple of hours but here it is now:

UC Davis police chief placed on leave following pepper-spray incident

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/21/4070465/uc-davis-police-chief-placed-on.html

The UC Davis campus police chief was placed on administrative leave today as the school's chancellor called for the Yolo County district attorney to review the use of force in the pepper spraying of protesting students.

The decision to place Chief Annette Spicuzza on leave was necessary to allow a review of events and help calm the campus, the university said.

The action also came as national attention is focusing on the police response to what appeared to be a peaceful protest. NBC's "Today" show and other programs did segments on the pepper-spraying incident, including broadcasting video that showed a UC Davis police officer spraying a line of students who were seated and providing no active resistance.

"As I have gathered more information about the events that took place on the quad on Friday, it has become clear to me that this is a necessary step toward restoring trust on our campus," said Chancellor Linda P.B.Katehi.

It also will allow campus police to focus on current demands, a letter to officers from a campus administrator stated. The department could be called upon to keep order today when members of Occupy UC Davis hold a rally scheduled for noon on the campus quad.

Campus protests have gone on since last week, first by students who slept overnight in Mrak Hall. The students eventually were evicted.

That protest paled in contrast to the pepper-spray incident. Students who camped overnight on the quad Thursday were ordered out of the their encampment the next day.

When police tried to move them out Friday, officers said they felt surrounded. At least one officer subsequently used a large can of pepper spray on the sitting students.

Katehi said she has replaced Spicuzza with interim police chief Lt. Matt Carmichael.

Katehi again today took responsibility for the Friday events and said she was saddened by the pepper spraying, images of which spread in national press reports and on social media. She will appoint a task force to review the incident.

Katehi said she has called upon the Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig's office to investigate the campus police department's use of force. In a press release, she said that the district attorney has agreed to conduct a review in collaboration with the Yolo County Sheriff's Department.

UC President Mark Yudof has also said that he had begun an urgent assessment of the actions by UC Davis police.

See my post #200. It is YOU that is guilty of reposting. Total fail on your part old lady.

 

[olds]

See my post #200. It is YOU that is guilty of reposting. Total fail on your part old lady.

POLICE CHIEF, LTR.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=32595697&postcount=191

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=32596116&postcount=200

 

[olds]

BTW, I have no problem with the pepper spray. Looks bad but hurts less than man handling and possibly injuring them.

 

[Drako]

POLICE CHIEF, LTR.

At least he did not repost it

 

[Patranus]

So ATOT Hippies, would you rather the police have used their beat down sticks instead of pepper spray?

 

[airdata]

BTW, I have no problem with the pepper spray. Looks bad but hurts less than man handling and possibly injuring them.

What if one of them has asthma or if they're pregnant like the woman in seattle who was pepped along w\ the 84 year old lady?

You figure they're going to arrest them anyhow... so, in the end what is the point of pepper spraying them?

 

[SandEagle]

UC Davis police chief placed on leave following pepper-spray
incident


http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/21/4070465/uc-davis-police-chief-placed-on.html

 

[airdata]

UC Davis police chief placed on leave following pepper-spray
incident


http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/21/4070465/uc-davis-police-chief-placed-on.html

3rd time's a charm ^^

 

[dainthomas]

So ATOT Hippies, would you rather the police have used their beat down sticks instead of pepper spray?

So ATOT fascists, would you rather the Bill of Rights didn't allow Americans the right to peaceably assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances?

 

[FoBoT]

where is the pony guy? i can't believe they did this to ponies!!!!11111

 

[spidey07]

 

[DCal430]

So ATOT fascists, would you rather the Bill of Rights didn't allow Americans the right to peaceably assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances?

The courts have ruled rights to peacefull assembly doesn't include the right to set up camps where you like.