Just in case you are one of the few people who haven't seen the nonviolent protesters at UC Davis being pepper-sprayed without cause, you can watch it here. Non-Californians might assume that all of these university campuses are alike and for Davis, read Berkeley, but Davis is an ag school, and in some ways, pretty conservative. They were showing support for other university students at Berkeley. This is what solidarity got them.
I really don't get what the agenda was here. In the days of Bull Connor, it was the press that caught the image of people being bowled over with the intense stream from fire hoses. Today, we don't need the press to capture such moments. Everybody,and I do mean everybody, has a camera. Don't these people know that?
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What the hell was Lt. Pike thinking? As you suggest, doesn't he know to make the effort to drag students out of sight before he sprays them?
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ReplyDeleteIn hindsight, it seems inevitable.
Yikes. I'd say that was funny, but this sounds like the way violence starts, like self-restraint being shrugged off..
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If only this had happened a few years ago. I find the idea of someone getting pepper-sprayed while elbowing another parent out of the way in a fight for Cabbage Patch dolls ghoulishly attractive.
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