{"id":48993,"date":"2011-11-20T10:35:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T15:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=48993"},"modified":"2011-11-20T12:59:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T17:59:21","slug":"after-pepper-spraying-students-a-powerfully-silent-protest-at-uc-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/politics\/after-pepper-spraying-students-a-powerfully-silent-protest-at-uc-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"After Pepper-Spraying, A Powerfully Silent Protest At UC Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n<p>If you watch these videos, it will affect your whole day, so you might want to skip them if you&#8217;re feeling fragile. What you&#8217;re about to see below is disturbing for many reasons, the first of which is its unmitigated cruelty. I would like to create an editorial or op-ed for the Internet about why this has got to stop. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48998\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48998\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/400+web-pepper-spray-still.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48998\" title=\"400+web-pepper-spray-still\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/400+web-pepper-spray-still.jpg?resize=400%2C274&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/400+web-pepper-spray-still.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/400+web-pepper-spray-still.jpg?resize=300%2C205&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Campus police officer at UC Davis pepper sprays students who are blocking a campus walk with their arms linked. Image is a still from student video of the crime scene.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am very busy these days and would benefit from some research support, particularly about two things: one is pepper spray itself and the other the rules for using it (which will vary by locale but should have some consistency).<\/p>\n<p>On the first topic, the documents I need to do this include the MSDS for various pepper sprays, any safety studies you can find, and articles from the mainstream and alternative press about the ethics of using this stuff. On the second, that&#8217;s a little more open but publicly available rules and regulations, campus policies, police policies, etc. This is two different kinds of research. In truth anyone can do it, with some patience and persistence.<\/p>\n<p>For deep research, ideally for the first, someone familiar with scientific databases would potentially be the best and for the second, a paralegal. If you would like to assist, please either put your findings into the comment area below, or email them to be at dreams@planetwaves.net with the subject header &#8220;pepper spray research.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your help.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Planet Waves\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.planetwavesweekly.com\/resources\/images\/sign_white.jpg?resize=185%2C45&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Eric Francis\" width=\"185\" height=\"45\" vspace=\"10\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nEditor, Planet Waves<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"storybyline\">\n<div id=\"res142562404\">\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/104192887\/mark-memmott\" rel=\"author\">Mark Memmott<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hundreds were injured and at least one person <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=142538191\" target=\"_blank\">died Saturday in Cairo<\/a> when police swept through a camp of protesters in Tahrir Square. A crackdown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=142559106\" target=\"_blank\">continues in Syria<\/a>. Yemen&#8217;s oppressive government remains in place.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always important to keep things in perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Still, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/11\/20\/142556702\/protesters-take-pepper-spray-blast-at-uc-davis?ps=cprs\" target=\"_blank\">what happened Friday<\/a> on the campus of the University of California Davis has struck a chord. In a demonstration of support for the Occupy movement, a small group of protesters was sitting, arms linked together. Campus police told them to move. The students didn&#8217;t. And that&#8217;s when an officer walked down the line of seated men and women, pepper-spraying them. Some took it straight in their faces. Many of the several hundred others who were there screamed in terror and frustration.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/WmJmmnMkuEM\" target=\"_blank\">video of the incident<\/a> has been viewed more than half a million times so far and has spread the story.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"610\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WmJmmnMkuEM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Campus police said the officers had been surrounded by protesters and commanders have defended their actions. So did university Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi \u2014 which led to a call from the school&#8217;s faculty association for her resignation. Katehi has since said she wants an outside, independent panel to review what happened and that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2011\/11\/20\/4067841\/ucd-peppered-by-net-outrage.html\" target=\"_blank\">she doesn&#8217;t plan to step down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/8775ZmNGFY8\" target=\"_blank\">There&#8217;s a second video<\/a> related to this story that we want to share. In some ways it&#8217;s more powerful than the one that&#8217;s been going viral.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, after a news conference she held, Katehi remained inside one of the university&#8217;s buildings for a couple hours. Outside, protesters regrouped. And when she emerged, there was one of the most amazing scenes so far related to the Occupy movement. As Katehi and another woman walked three blocks to an SUV, they passed through a gauntlet of several hundred students \u2014 who remained silent in a powerful show of their disdain.<br \/>\n<object width=\"610\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8775ZmNGFY8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friend and Reader: If you watch these videos, it will affect your whole day, so you might want to skip them if you&#8217;re feeling fragile. What you&#8217;re about to see below is disturbing for many reasons, the first of which is its unmitigated cruelty. 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