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(48,121 posts) Wed Oct 23, 2013, 08:36 PM Oct 2013

Police Officer Who Pepper-Sprayed UC Davis Protesters Awarded $38,000 Settlement

A former University of California-Davis police officer made famous after being filmed pepper-spraying seated activists during a Nov. 2011 protest has been awarded a $38,059 workers' compensation settlement, The Guardian reports.

John Pike, a 40-year-old former Lt. on the university police force, claimed he suffered from depression and anxiety after receiving death threats following the incident.

A judge approved the settlement between Pike and the university on Oct. 16, according to KCRA.

http://www.businessinsider.com/john-pike-protest-settlement-2013-10

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Police Officer Who Pepper-Sprayed UC Davis Protesters Awarded $38,000 Settlement (Original Post) The Straight Story Oct 2013 OP

This is so wrong. Laurian Oct 2013 #1

Oh you poor baby. Mojo Electro Oct 2013 #2

Oh good grief. Glimmer of Hope Oct 2013 #3

I'm willing to lay odds onethatcares Oct 2013 #4

A former "uniformed" thug warrant46 Oct 2013 #7

......... Hotler Oct 2013 #5

For fucks sake, scumbag lawyers. n-t Logical Oct 2013 #6

Laurian

(2,593 posts)

1. This is so wrong.

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Wed Oct 23, 2013, 08:38 PM

Oct 2013

Maybe the students can sue him to get that money.

Mojo Electro

(362 posts)

2. Oh you poor baby.

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Wed Oct 23, 2013, 08:47 PM

Oct 2013

Looking at the picture disgusts me.

The only positive thing I see here is the word "former"

Glimmer of Hope

(5,823 posts)

3. Oh good grief.

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Wed Oct 23, 2013, 08:47 PM

Oct 2013

onethatcares

(16,172 posts)

4. I'm willing to lay odds

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Wed Oct 23, 2013, 08:50 PM

Oct 2013

he has a rant about tort reform stuffed somewhere up his ass that he likes to use against everyone else.

Hopefully his lawyers get their pound of flesh which will take that down to 24K. I'm pretty sure that when he

applies for a new job a background check will show him to be unemployable.