Judge approves $1 million settlement in (UC Davis Lt. Pike) pepper spray lawsuit [View all]
via Jenna Pope:
http://m.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/10/1177858/-Judge-approves-1-million-settlement-in-pepper-spray-lawsuit
A federal judge on January 9 approved and finalized the $1 million settlement of a lawsuit filed by UC Davis students and recent alumni who were pepper sprayed during a protest at the University in November 2011.
The federal class-action lawsuit resulted from the shocking and widely publicized incident in which the campus police repeatedly doused seated, non-violent student demonstrators with military grade pepper spray at close range during demonstrations on November 18, 2011.
Photos and videos of UC Davis Police Lieutenant John Pike pepper spraying the students became viral, drawing attention to the repression of the Occupy movement in the U.S. and to the outrageous tactics used to repress Occupy UC Davis in particular.
"Police should never have been called out to disperse the lawful protest against steep tuition increases, police brutality against UC Berkeley protesters, and privatization of the university," said Mark E. Merin, one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs.
(More at the link.)
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