US News Cop who pepper-sprayed student protesters awarded $38,000

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A former University of California policeman who stirred public outrage by pepper-spraying peaceful student protesters has been awarded $38,000 in worker's compensation for psychiatric damage he claimed to have suffered from the 2011 incident, the university said on Wednesday.

Then-campus police Lieutenant John Pike came to symbolize law enforcement aggression against anti-Wall Street protests at the time when video footage widely aired on TV and the Internet showed him casually dousing demonstrators in the face with a can of pepper spray as they sat on the ground.

Pike was suspended from his job at UC Davis and ultimately left the force in July 2012, but university officials did not disclose the circumstances of his departure.

A scathing 190-page report on the incident found that university officials and UC Davis police used poor judgment and excessive force in the confrontation. And the incident was widely mocked in satirical messages posted on the Internet in which still photos of Pike wielding his pepper spray were inserted into famed works or art or pop culture images.

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California cop who pepper-sprayed student protesters awarded $38,000

A former University of California policeman who stirred public outrage by pepper-spraying peaceful student protesters has been awarded $38,000 in worker's compensation for psychiatric damage he claimed to have suffered from the 2011 incident, the university said on Wednesday...
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That's Just ridiculous!
 
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Thats the way to make money in the 21st century. This guy understands the system.
 
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Too well I think! ^
Maybe, we should pepper spray some nonviolent cops? And will we get paid for it, too? Hmm
 
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FireCat said:
LOL But.. Spraying innocent protesters in the face. Isn't that a terrorist act?
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No. Why would it be? What did they ever do to be special enough for terrorism?
 
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Don't be ridiculous, you can't be a terrorist without inspiring terror anymore than you can be a horrorist without horror, or a petrifist without petrify.
 
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Pepper spray and murder are not quite the same thing, but I don't think a murder is exactly on the same scale as a terrorist either.
 
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Varine said:
Don't be ridiculous, you can't be a terrorist without inspiring terror anymore than you can be a horrorist without horror, or a petrifist without petrify.
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Or a pacifist without a pacifier.
 
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The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Pike had earned more than $110,000 from his job in 2010
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WTF?

either way, I don't really mind him getting 38k from it since it means that he was doing the wrong thing, and it's not that much considering he lost his job (and will have a hard time getting another until he changes his name/look)
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No but it's still a terror act. Well, I don't think it was for fun.
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terror act means lots of people were terrified - who would those people be?
 
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