pretty sure that pig will get what's coming to him. We should keep letting him know how we feel for months to come. write several letters, E-mails and the like. Him and his squealing pig brethren of the badge that abuse their power (and this list is loooooong) need to be brought to justice. When the revolution is over, it is our duty to indict each and every person who has trampled on our freedoms. I am still in favor of indicting ol' governor bush. I say Governor, because that's the only office he held legally.
What? You're calling John Pike a PIG? Really? It's not because he LOOKS like one, now is it? Oink, Oink! :bobby: If only it had been pepper-spray that day in May, 1970...
it's not a burn on his looks.. his over coincidental looks. do you have another, more suiting term for cops that abuse their power?
If only it had been pepper-spray that day in May, 1970... You bring up a good point, #OWS is dealing with a lot of un-necessary roughness and trampling of our rights but at least they haven't opend fire with real bullets... yet.
At the rate the Police State is clamping down on the protests, it's only a matter of time before someone dies from Police bullets. Sad to say....
Now there's the difference! We have an Occupy going at the courthouse in a small Oklahoma town and the sheriff brings coffee and doughnuts in the morning.
"We told the police to remove the tents or the equipment," she told the paper. "We told them very specifically to do it peacefully, and if there were too many of them, not to do it, if the students were aggressive, not to do it. And then we told them we also do not want to have another Berkeley." http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...er-spray-chancellor-police-defied-orders.html (She's lying through her teeth in an attempt to cover her own ass...ZW) ... she has previously said "the officers used the pepper spray because they were being cut off from other police by the students." http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/23/4074993/katehi-campus-police-were-told.html#ixzz1egK2TCIb ZW
this is boldserdash bs this public good that they call and police officer what a dirt bag i dont like condoning sueing ever but these kids that got sprayed should sue the poop outta this cop ,this is the real america pepper spraying the ones who WONT conform to the fascist bs that this obserd bassakwards country is coming to
This Sunday, Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. did a piece on this, focusing on the prospect that the fascists in our government are trying to outlaw fotografing pigs in the performance of their abuses. I hope these laws can be challenged in court as the clear limits of our freedom that they are. In my opinion UC Davis police went too far Sunday, November 27, 2011 BY LEONARD PITTS JR. LPITTS@MIAMIHERALD.COM A menacing crowd of protesters had encircled police and they had no choice but to defend themselves with pepper spray. Or at least, that is the story campus cops at UC Davis initially told. Video of the Nov. 18 incident tells a different story. It shows a group of Occupy Davis student protesters sitting peacefully with arms interlocked while a police officer walks back and forth, dousing them at close range with liberal amounts of pepper spray. There is an awful contemptuousness in his bearing. He could be spraying weeds in his garden or roaches in his kitchen. The victims of this assault have described the pain in searing terms. They speak of burning skin and vomiting, of the inability to breathe, of feeling as if acid had been poured into their faces. Two cops involved with this atrocity and the chief of police have been suspended — with pay. One hopes this is preparatory to a summary dismissal. As we grapple with this vandalism of the First Amendment, we should ask ourselves this: what if there had been no cameras on hand? What if we had only the word of the protesters and their sympathizers that this happened versus the word of authority figures that it did not? Is it so hard to imagine the students’ claims being dismissed, the media attention being a fraction of what it is, the public’s outrage falling along predictable ideological lines and these cops getting a walk? That’s worth keeping in mind as legislators and law officers around the country move to criminalize the act of videotaping police in the performance of their duties. As in Emily Good, the Rochester, N.Y., woman who was arrested in May for videotaping a traffic stop from her own front yard. As in Narces Benoit, who says Miami Beach police grabbed his hair, handcuffed him and stomped his cellphone (which police deny) after he recorded an officer-involved shooting in June. As in states that have written new laws or used existing wiretapping statutes to support this blatant usurpation of an American liberty. This is not, as the officer who arrested Good piously claimed for the benefit of her video and any court that might later review it, about police safety. It is, rather, about the right of civilian oversight. Police after all, are prone to the same instinct to close ranks and cover nether regions as anyone else. Except, they have guns, and powers of arrest. That should give us pause, especially in light of the blatant mendacity of the UC Davis cops. It should stand as a cautionary tale to those folks who are willing to accord police all benefit of every doubt. One also hopes those states or towns that have enacted or are contemplating statutes to prohibit people from videotaping on-duty police will now rethink that awful idea. If you are not interfering with police or otherwise breaking a law, what legal or moral pretext do they have to stop you from filming them? Indeed, those who are doing their work honorably — in other words, the majority — should welcome that, as it protects them from spurious claims of brutality, just as it protects citizens when the brutality is real. That is the moral of this story and the reason we should be thankful cameras recorded what happened at UC Davis that day. What police did to those students was an absolute crime. Getting away with it would have been one, too.
Update: Facebook message posted on Dec 9. "We have voted to disassemble the camp today, to be reassembled at the start of Winter quarter* , as a community building process. Part of this means we need help! Come to the quad and lend us a hand! We also need you to take your stuff, if you left anything at the camp site. Anything without a clear owner is going to be packed up, sorted out, and stored. Anything that is very clearly waste will be sorted and disposed of by our expert scavengers and reuse crew. We promise to be careful, but to be absolutely sure your things are kept together and returned in order, come to the quad today and claim them! Come on out!" *-editor's note: Winter Quarter begins Jan. 6 http://www.************/pages/Occupy-UC-Davis/262907633759444
Finally, UC Davis is going to pay $1M to settle the incident from Nov. 18, 2011, in which non-violent students were pepper sprayed. http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2019264911_apusoccupypepperspray.html
Better than nothing... $30,000 plus free tuition or loan forgiveness would be more like it. That cop needs to be perminantly blacklisted too.
I was on the Quad a few minutes before the cops arrived in November of last year. I'm very proud of those students https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8775ZmNGFY8"]UC Davis Chancellor Katehi walks to her car (higher quality) - YouTube
I admit to not reading through this whole thread.. but... What does some money thrown at the victims change? I'm glad to see that it will help them with covering their college costs, and some is being donated... A big part of the demonstration was about the extortionate costs of a public college education. How does this payout help that? And furthermore, it reeks of a payoff, settle it and sweep it under the rug. Has there been one prosecution, one person held up as accountable? Did that cop and his peers get charged with assault? Abuse of power under the badge of authority? This changes nothing. Period.