HAPPY HALLOWEEN – IF THIS DOESN’T SCARE YOU NOTHING WILL!
COURT AWARDS $38,000 TO POLICE OFFICER WHO PEPPER SPRAYED STUDENTS
DURING PEACEFUL SIT-IN AT U.C.
DAVIS IN 2011.
The World Famous Linda Katehi Anti-Occupy Spray Patent Pending
Roque Montez
Taller Arte Del Nuevo Amanecer (TANA)
Silkscreen, 2012
Davis, California
39967
UC Davis police Lieutenant John Pike,
who pepper-sprayed students during a peaceful sit-in at an "Occupy
UCD" demonstration in Davis, Calif. on Nov. 18, 2011, was awarded $38,000 to
compensate him for psychiatric damage he claimed to have suffered from the 2011
incident. The students he pepper
sprayed received less--$30,000 each.
Students were seated arm and arm and refused to follow police commands to
move when Pike and another officer doused them with pepper spray at close range.Pike was immediately put on paid administrative leave following the incident, which drew criticism from all over the country and had many calling for Chancellor Linda Katehi to be fired.
Pike had been collecting a six-figure salary until his separation from the department in July 2012. He filed a worker’s comp claim on grounds that he was victimized by the way he was treated after the fact.
A scathing 190-page report on the
incident found that university officials and UC Davis police used poor judgment
and excessive force in the confrontation. And the incident was widely mocked in
satirical messages posted on the Internet in which still photos of Pike
wielding his pepper spray were inserted into famed works or art or pop culture
images.
The university last fall agreed to
pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit brought on behalf of the 21 students who got
sprayed and later reported suffering panic attacks, trauma and academic
problems as a result.
Sources:
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/23/21105239-university-of-california-cop-who-pepper-sprayed-student-protesters-awarded-38000?lite
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