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sakhmetangarika:magnificentmooj:kiwilovedamango:stfuconservatives:reagan-was-a-horrible-president:whatiremembered:This is important. Pepper spray should only ever be used to pacify a dangerous suspect. In this case it is being administered as a punishment, in clear violation of the 8th amendment and Article Five of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.occupyallstreets:Activists were peacefully protesting on their campus at University of California, Davis Quad.Friday afternoon police showed up in riot gear to disperse the protesters by using pepper spray at point-blank range.The officer who pepper-sprayed UC Davis students is Lt. John Pike. Give his PD a call. 530-752-1727The video’s worse.Oh you gotta be fucking kidding me.“When students covered their eyes with their clothing, police forced open their mouths and pepper-sprayed down their throats. Several of these students were hospitalized … One of them, forty-five minutes after being pepper-sprayed down his throat, was still coughing up blood. (Open Letter to Chancellor Linda B.H. Katehi [UC Davis])”This is sickening. Something needs to be done about this. The police shouldn’t be allowed to do this. Nobody was acting in such a way that would call for actions like this.I am utterly horrified at this. Can I renounce my humanity and be something else? Something more humane?This is what an utter dearth of accountability in the nation’s police forces leads to. -- source link