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The former University of California, Davis police officer who pepper-sprayed Occupy protesters has reached a worker's compensation settlement with the university system.
The Davis Enterprise reports that a judge on Oct. 16 approved the $38,059 settlement between John Pike and the University of California.
The 40-year-old former officer said he suffered depression and anxiety after death threats to him and his family after the Nov. 18, 2011 event.
seeker1963
Remember this incident during the Occupy movement? NO?
Well, there is no doubt in my mind that the police state is here to stay now. Now they get rewarded for having their feelings hurt for doing the wrong thing!
PsykoOps
Let's see:
Protestors told multiple times not to block the road, check.
Given orders to disperse them, check.
You have the right to "peaceably to assemble" which these protestors obviously didn't follow.
seeker1963
reply to post by PsykoOps
I would gladly rather be handcuffed and have my ass hauled away, rather than be pepper sprayed in the face!!! The fact is that if they were breaking the law, why weren't they hand cuffed and arrested????
Right..................they weren't breaking the law, they were just being an inconvenience to their oppressors so they were sprayed.
Heil Hitler right??????
PsykoOps
Let's see:
Protestors told multiple times not to block the road, check.
Given orders to disperse them, check.
You have the right to "peaceably to assemble" which these protestors obviously didn't follow.
pheonix358
It was a protest protected by the constitution. It is about time that protesters used the second and go armed!
My fellow Americans, My name is A*** K***** and I am a political prisoner. I have been in jail for over three months for loading a shotgun at Freedom Plaza on Independence Day in defiance of DC gun laws to assert my rights allegedly protected by the 2nd amendment. I have yet to be indicted, let alone tried. My home was raided and ransacked for over 5 hours. I was kept in solitary confinement in cells with ants, cockroaches, water leaks, lights on for 24 hours a day, without a mattress, and I was fed so little I lost 15 pounds in the first three weeks. This is what “gun control” looks like.
I harmed or threatened no one, yet for this victimless non-crime, I have been held without bail because of clerical errors that my judge refuses to acknowledge. When I go to trial, I will be arguing that if there is no victim, there is no crime, and it will not just be my civil disobedience on trial, not just gun control, not just the enforcement of unconstitutional laws, not just the criminal injustice system, but the entire idea of government force and the government that has become the greatest enemy of freedom will be on trial. I will be fighting for my freedom, and yours, but you will never be free until you stand up for yourself and demand to be free. I would never ask you to follow me, but I dearly hope that you will join me.
PsykoOps
reply to post by MichaelPMaccabee
It's right there in the article. Check it out.