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UC Davis student leaders condemn police use of pepper spray

By Elizabeth Flock In the wake of Friday's incident at UC Davis, in which Lt. John Pike was caught on film using pepper spray against peaceful protesters, an outcry is being heard in an unlikely place — on Amazon. An Amazon reviewer left this photo as By Jeff Poor – The Daily Caller Just how [...]

UC Davis students put up new encampment

With the Occupy movement having left Wall Street definitively this weekend after footage surfaced of students at UC Davis being pepper-sprayed en masse, its most vocal unofficial spokespeople have taken to the airwaves to By Judy Lin, Associated Press / November 22, 2011 UC Davis students protest at an 'Occupy UCD' rally on campus in [...]

Hundreds of UC Davis students protest pepper-spraying by police

I was stunned and appalled by the UC Davis Police spraying protestors, but struck by how many brave, curious people recorded the events. I took the four clearest videos and synchronized them. Citizen journalism FTW. Sometime toward the end of the day on Friday, while many of us were firing off last minute emails and [...]

UC Davis pepper-spraying raises questions about role of police

If we don't speak out, we're part of the problem – Liberal and Progressive news. But the video image was shown on TV in connection with the UC Davis so that TV viewers couldn't clearly tell whether the elderly woman was sprayed in Seattle or in Davis, CA. See, Elderly Woman Pepper Sprayed By Seattle [...]

UC Davis Pepper Spraying: Occupy Protesters Call for Chancellor's Resignation

By Nick Greene Sun., Nov. 20 2011 at 9:30 AM Last night, an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 struck outside of Tokyo. The AP reports "there were no immediate reports of damage or injury" and that, "the earthquake also had no impact on the SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The University of California, Davis has [...]

UC Davis launches probe after pepper spray video

In another sign of aggressive police behavior on an “Occupy” movement gaining attention, UC Davis school police pepper-sprayed and arrested ten demonstrations Friday evening for encamping on the school's quad area. WASHINGTON — On Friday, a group of University of California, Davis students, part of the Occupy Wall Street movement on campus, became the latest [...]