Meanwhile in News That Wasn't Covered as News.

[Jimmy Higgins]

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Anyone remember that UC Davis protest and the cop that pepper sprayed students like you'd spray for cockroaches?

A California university has paid consultants at least $175,000 to counteract the effects of negative Internet posts about the school and its chancellor after campus police sparked outrage in 2011 by pepper-spraying student protesters, the Sacramento Bee reported on Wednesday.
The incident led the University of California, Davis, to replace its police chief and briefly thrust the campus near the state capital, Sacramento, to the forefront of national anti-Wall Street demonstrations.

Wow... just erase it from the Internet and it goes away.

Apparently there was a settlement for $1 million over the suit, each student getting $30,000.

As to the Officer himself?

A former campus policeman, Lieutenant John Pike, was awarded $38,000 in 2013 after filing a worker's compensation claim citing unspecified psychiatric and nervous system damage he said he suffered from the incident.

Now there are a couple things wrong with this sentence. One, it refers to him as a former campus policeman, not the guy who crop dusted the protesting (sitting) students. Secondly... he got $38,000 for crop dusting sitting students?!?!!?!?!

The victims got less than the overly aggressive and violent officer.

God Bless America!!!

 

[RavenSky]

I wish the students had also sued him personally

 

[laughing dog]

Where is the outrage from someone (the former police officer) benefiting from criminal activity?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Where is the outrage from someone (the former police officer) benefiting from criminal activity?

When something doesn't get widely reported, hard to get angry about it.

 

[Colonel Sanders]

I wish the students had also sued him personally

What would they have gotten from him?

Anyway, they did a poor job of erasing it from the internet.

Google "pepper spray cop meme." There are literally hundreds.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

 

[jonatha]

I wish the students had also sued him personally

What would they have gotten from him?

$38,000?

 

[RavenSky]

What would they have gotten from him?

$38,000?

yep