Two UC Davis police officers have been placed on administrative leave

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Two UC Davis police officers have been placed on administrative leave following their use of pepper spray in Friday's arrest of protesters.

https://twitter.com/#!/KCBSNews/status/138311300638965761

Yeah, they're really holding the pigs accountable!!!

Where is the bonus?

Which is pretty standard. There's always a formal investigation before the ultimate punishment (if there is one) ensues. This is how it goes when you have a union... you don't get sacked immediately because it's only fair to the worker that a decision is made only after an investigation. Should be that way for all of us.

I seriously doubt that this will be the end of it at the conclusion of the investigation especially considering that the chancellor is getting so much flack. It will also very likely fuck up their promotions if they are allowed to stay on the force... hopefully so much so that they'll never get another one in their entire career.

get the benefits of everything Occupy is fighting for?

Who is going to arrest them? Or the next guys because is likely only the beginning.

Or, I should say, even more cynical.

As it stands, the protesters probably have more chance of being arrested than the thugs who assaulted them. Just as Bradley Manning sits in prison while the guys he exposed are walking free and hailed as heroes.

for a while. But this show of force stuff resulting in massive police deployment, probably on the advice of DHS, is not going to work for the localities. It won't work AND they will then be even more broke. Then what are they going to do?

I believe that there will be huge lawsuits. This happened on a college campus. People pay tuition and room and board to universities to keep their children safe, not assault them. The fact that this was the campus police is highly relevant. This didn't happen on a city street and it wasn't perpetrated by city cops. This wasn't the national guard. This was the university police force

I'm trying hard to think of other instances where university police attacked students, and I'm not coming up with any. The role of campus police is to protect students. Campus police arrest muggers and rapists who attack students. Campus police - at least up to this moment - are not known to attack students.

This is really new territory. I predict that the university president and the chief of university police will both resign by the end of the week.

See the second-round People's Park demonstrations in the early 90s - the UC police were out of control there too, on UC property.

They are already suing Oakland.

a paid vacation is the punishment? wait until they tell all the cops about this...

a) The trend to fascism. The US is floating towards fascism; the oligarchy supports it.
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b) The militarization of the police force. My 85-year-old mother insists that the continued militarization of the police force is rewarding the cowardice of those who want to be the opressors. Her comment is that these men should be sent to the next war; that way they can't hide at home.

While I'm not sure that is the solution, I don't believe that rewarding the police or the military with what amounts to hero worship is the answer, either. It's time to hold these people accountable.

Removing the military toys would be a fine idea, too. Bloomberg, with the excuse that the occupy folks were in a residential neighbourhood, used SOUND CANNONS (you know, the ones that can cause hearing damage) in the neighbourhood to get rid of the occupy people.

Somehow, that feels counter-productive to me.

Give these guys toys, and they get all bold and forceful. We noticed that during the G-20. I will also note that the police shut down stores in the Eaton's Centre and informed bystanders to get off the main drag. Why? They knew exactly what time the 'riots' were going to happen. Yes, really.

brianstelter Brian Stelter
UC Davis update: 2 cops suspended, I've confirmed; chancellor now wants investigation done in 30 days, instead of 90. Blog post coming.
14 minutes ago

https://twitter.com/#!/brianstelter/status/138323266661134336

@ggreenwald Glenn Greenwald
Email from UC-Davis student who participated in the protest of Chancellor Katehi as she walked to her car: is.gd/Trku0c
6 minutes ago via web

https://twitter.com/#!/ggreenwald/status/138332063723040768

Hey Glenn,

The video you posted in the update section was from a a UC Davis protest held yesterday. The chancellor decided to hold a press conference about the pepper-spray incident from Friday. To minimize the students' voice, she only gave notification to the media and no notice to the students. Only through a media leak that there was to be a press conference held, did students know about the press conference. After arriving at the building for the press conference, the media & no students (except only a handful that work for the school newspaper & tv news) were allowed in. Since being frustrated & knowing that no direct communication would be held, we decided to chant outside the building. We unexpectedly & successfully stopped the press conference early. Some students were able to get in but no questions were answered. Mind you it's still only 4:30 p.m.

Then, it took an unexpected turn. Instead of leaving from either side of the building, the chancellor decided to trap herself in building & create a fake hostage situation depicting the students as hostile, violent, & unreasonable. All the media personnel from the news stations safely exited the building w/o any incident. After this the students decided to form a walk path for her to leave, we stood there for 2 hours and 30 minutes. We didn't use any violent chants. She was also concerned about her car being vandalized which was not. I was only a few feet away from it & no damage was done to it. Among our chants were "resignation," "we paid for that car", "you can walk home," "we want accountability", "this is not a hostage situation", "no need for negotiation", etc.

After an hour or so, some interfaith leaders were allowed in to "negotiate" for her to exit in this fake "hostage situation". Then, some students were allowed in to talk to the interfaith leaders but not the chancellor. This negotiations lasted for another hour. All the while, everyone has been peacefully and been patient. Finally, the ordeal was over at 6:59 p.m.

Regarding the Friday incident, the cops claimed they were threatened the large crowd. So why did they pepper-spray that were sitting down rather than the crowd recording them? (http://www.americablog.com/2011/11/omg-cops-pepper-spray-uc-davis-students.html) .

http://ggdrafts.blogspot.com/2011/11/letter-from-uc-davis-protester.html

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K&R

and pretends she was a hostage.

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Thanks a million for your continuous faithful reporting.

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Might encourage other cops to engage in similiar actions in order to get paid vacations.

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