Hard to believe this kind of thing happens in the US, what with the right to peaceably assemble, which it appears that unthreatening group of 15 or so UC Davis students is doing. Here's an interesting read, which espouses sympathy for the pepper-spray triggerman, a Lt. John Pike, not for his sadistic, reckless hosing of peaceful young people, but for now becoming the personification for a broken system. The militarization of police forces, let alone campus police forces (!), has gotten out of hand, resulting in incidents like this one, where the response vastly outweighs any, if any, crime committed.
And here's the UC Davis chancellor walking to her car that night, and the students responding with a super-creepy glare of silence. Uber effective.
Delish!
Here's another compilation of links with some commentary on the protests, the over-reaction by many police forces, how these occasions of civil unrest compare to other times in American history (see: 1960s), and the irony that the police officers brutalizing these protestors, deservedly so or not, are the very public employees losing their jobs and their pensions due to the corporate greed and malfeasance that the people are protesting in the first place.
And finally, here's a bit more perspective on the 99% vs. 1% protest. Turns out that 99 number might be a tad low.
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