Judge approves $1 million settlement in (UC Davis Lt. Pike) pepper spray lawsuit

[Locrian]

1. stunning. not nearly enough, and people should be in jail for this.

The pepper spraying of the students at UC Davis also takes place in the larger context of the nationally coordinated crackdown on the Occupy movement by the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, local police departments and the banks themselves. "New documents prove what was once dismissed as paranoid fantasy: totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent," according to an article by Naomi Wolf in the U.K. Guardian on December 29 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy

"It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police," said Wolf. "The crackdown, which involved, as you may recall, violent arrests, group disruption, canister missiles to the skulls of protesters, people held in handcuffs so tight they were injured, people held in bondage till they were forced to wet or soil themselves –was coordinated with the big banks themselves."