Monday, November 21, 2011
Use of pepper spray against Occupiers costs officers
UC Davis took action against two of its campus police officers who pepper-sprayed passively resisting Occupy demonstrators. These tactics may only create sympathy for the demonstrators, anger sympathizers, help recruitment into the movement, and increase their credibility. Of course, this might be what some of the demonstrators and/or their leaders were hoping for.
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Pepper-spraying passive demonstrators went too far regardless of who’s purpose it served. The university’s police should have known better and avoided such a questionable tactic. It was a bad call by campus peace officers.
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