UC Davis launches probe after pepper spray video
Video surfaced online Saturday showing an officer at a California university calmly pepper-spraying a line of several sitting protesters, who flinch and cover their faces but remain passive with their arms interlocked as onlookers shriek and scream out for the officer to stop…. The UC Davis video images, which were circulated on YouTube and widely online, prompted immediate outrage among faculty and students, with the Davis Faculty Association saying in a letter Saturday that Katehi should resign. “The Chancellor’s role is to enable open and free inquiry, not to suppress it,” the faculty association said in its letter. It called Katehi’s authorization of police force a “gross failure of leadership.”
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by Staff, USA Today.
Lt John Pike is the officer doing the spraying.