Sunday, November 20, 2011

Now This Is A Protest

Anyone who was on the Interwebs yesterday undoubtedly saw the video of the UC Davis Officer pepper spraying the Occupy protestors who were refusing to move on their campus. To me, that seemed somewhat excessive. First of all, there's no need to show the big-ass can of pepperspray to the crowd- second of all, they want to be arrested. You're going to end up dragging them away anyway, so why not just roll up your sleeves and get going with it? Pepper spraying just seemed unnecessary to me.

Of course, the Chancellor, Police Department and the University are all under fire- so when the Chancellor finished up her press conference on the matter yesterday, she walked out of the Admin building and was greeted with more protestors. Sitting in silence- lining her 3 block walk to the her SUV. Whether you agree with the Occupy crowd or not (I generally don't, but in this case, the police officer was in the wrong- there was no justification from what I can see for dousing peaceful protestors with pepper spray) you have to admit that it's a pretty powerful scene.

NPR has the vid, here. (Pepper Spray vid is also included.)

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