Sunday, November 20, 2011 10:24
As some faculty members called for her ouster, the chancellor of The University of California Davis launched an inquiry into the pepper-spraying of apparently peaceful Occupy Davis protesters by campus police, reports the Los Angeles Times. A video of the Friday incident that went viral on the Web showed an officer dousing protesters with a canister of pepper spray as they sat huddled on the ground. The police had been attempting to clear the university’s Quad of tents and campers.Faculty and students reacted with outrage. Nathan Brown, an assistant professor of English, said the episode was the latest example of “the systematic use by UC chancellors of police brutality” to suppress protests. Chancellor Linda Katehi initially did not criticize the police, but she now tells the Times the video “left me with a very bad feeling of what went on. There was enough information to show that we need to take a serious look at what happened.”
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