Lt. John Pike, the U.C. Davis police officer who became a meme star after he sprayed sitting Occupy protesters with bright orange pepper spray last November, has left the building at long last.
Last week an independent report found all kinds of blame in the U.C. Davis pepper spray incident, from the administration to the police rank and file, but the first real-world casualty is university police chief Annette Spicuzza, who left the force on Wednesday.
A Board of Trustees meeting at Santa Monica City College turned chaotic on Tuesday night when protesting students were pepper sprayed, indoors, by police trying to control the unruly crowd.
The national pick-up of the story of a 14-year-old high school student pepper-spraying her Harlem classmates seems to be following the same pattern as the media fascinations with turning other horrible though random events into a trend.
Missing out on the action during The Daily Show's week off, Jon Stewart pondered the proliferation of pepper spray across the nation.
Woman pepper-sprayed crowds during Black Friday in suburban Los Angeles.
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John Pike, the officer who was seen casually pepper-spraying seated UC Davis protesters, was once given an award in 2006 for not using pepper spray in a campus incident because he didn't want to harm his fellow officers.
If Fox News's Megyn Kelly actually has to eat pepper spray for her off-comment on last night's O'Reilly Factor, we hear it apparently tastes good.
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Spurred by the prominent and recurring use of pepper spray by police officers during encounters with Occupy Wall Street protesters, Deborah Blum investigated the substance and its potential health effects for Scientific American.
For your Monday morning meme consideration, here's a Tumblr of a Pepper Spray Cop from U.C. Davis spraying people and things throughout history, like Yoko Ono, Edward Munch's The Scream, and Wyeth's Christina's World.
Another video of cops spraying seemingly harmless protesters with pepper spray triggers outrage, while a high-powered lobbying firm offers to attack with "negative narratives," for a fee.
Remember the New York Police Department deputy inspector caught on video pepper spraying calm-looking protesters a week into Occupy Wall Street? Of course you do.
The latest video shows Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna spraying a young man
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