UC Davis Protesters Pepper-Sprayed For Sitting Down

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<p>Watch This: UC Davis Protesters Pepper-Sprayed For Sitting Down</p>

<p>Watch</a> This: UC Davis Protesters Pepper-Sprayed For Sitting Down | Ology</p>

<p>*This video captured the incidence better imho.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AdDLhPwpp4%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AdDLhPwpp4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I saw a similar news video and it was infuriating. The Excuse for pepper spraying being they feared for their safety was ridiculous. I personally wouldn’t have felt physically threatened by students sitting with their arms locked. The onlookers didn’t look threatening, either.</p>

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<p>Several of the officers were also walking around with rifles drawn. It may be procedure, but really, were they going to fire? And if not, why hold them like that?</p>

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<p>Those don’t appear to be regular rifles. At least in the video I saw, they appeared to be paintball guns. They’d be considered “non-lethal” so I could see them actually using them…</p>

<p>I think it is going to get interesting over the next several weeks. Cities and police departments really let these people have their say, but at some point it has to end. And unfortunately it can get ugly when that time comes…</p>

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<p>Remember Kent State?</p>

<p>I don’t understand this police action at all. The students were on the university grounds, and yes, they were in conflict with school policy. But is pepper spray in the face at point blank range a reasonable action for not observing school policy? Even with the warning, it’s too much. This protest, on the protesters side, was about as peaceful as it gets.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I remember Kent State . . . this sure as heck is no Kent state. Those are cops that were called in by the UC Davis administration, not National Guard. Those are paint ball guns loaded with chilli pepper balls, not 30 '06 rifles.</p>

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<p>When is enough … enough?</p>

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<p>This is too close to Kent State for comfort, IMHO. I feel the sap rising.</p>

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<p>i was responding to this comment. This protest seems to have hit a nerve, and the powers that be feel the need to stop it, even if it means brutality where it’s not deserved.
Escalation on both sides is very likely, imo.</p>

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<p>‘these people had their say’…said by someone who doesn’t agree with them.</p>

<p>But the ethics and justification for this kind of police action cant be determined by the worthiness of the protest…by whose standards? Civil rights are for everybody, for a reason. Step back for a moment and try to go to a higher level of abstraction…What if they were protesting something you felt was critical and fundamental?</p>

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<p>I knew a boy in high school who went blind from a paintball gun. I think they are very dangerous.</p>

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<p>No escalation would be possible if there were no allowances for this type of “peaceful” gathering. Acting promptly when protesters start to assemble is the answer. The protesters have an OBVIOUS desire to create violent conflicts.</p>

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<p>And remember the woman in Boston who was killed by a rubber bullet? That wasn’t even a protest, it was just the Red Sox winning!</p>

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<p>Civil rights–they get so durned annoying sometimes.</p>

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<p>^^Civil rights do not eliminate civil responsibilities.</p>

<p>Those people are no victims. Just idiots.</p>

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<p>No they aren’t victims. They are terribly frightening apocalyptic zombies. Duh.</p>

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<p>What that meant to be a witty repartee? Zombies, really?</p>

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<p>I don’t know, you are obviously blessed with intelligence and amazing, almost psychic intuition that enabled you to discern that those getting pepper sprayed were idiots, so figure it out.</p>

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<p>I’ll bet he was shot by a trained law enforcement officer…</p>

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<p>I don’t even know what they’re protesting so I couldn’t tell you whether I agree or not. From what I have seen, law enforcement has displayed a lot of restraint with all of these “occupy” protests across the country.</p>

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<p>They can protest from their front yard all they want. Their rights shouldn’t infringe upon the rights of others however and when they take over public property like that, they do.</p>