Pepper Spray Cop Receives $38,000 Settlement from the University of California

Remember this guy?

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Yep, that’s John Pike, the infamous pepper spray cop who walked across a group of seated student engaged in an act of peaceful civil disobedience and callously pepper sprayed them in the face. While Pike was eventually fired, an internal investigation found that he “acted appropriately.” For all his troubles, the University has now decided he deserves a $38,000 settlement.

More from the Guardian:

A former University of California Davis police officer who pepper-sprayed a group of Occupy protesters has reached a $38,000 settlement in a workman’s compensation case against the school.

John Pike, who was filmed discharging pepper spray at a line of seated demonstrators in a video that was watched around the world, received the compensation last week.

The Davis Enterprise reported that Pike, 40, had suffered depression and anxiety brought on by death threats to him and his family. The threats followed the 18 November 2011 protest, the newspaper reported.

Bernie Goldsmith, a Davis attorney supportive of the student protesters, told the Associated Press that the settlement “sends a clear message to the next officer nervously facing off with a group of passive, unarmed students: Go on ahead. Brutalize them. Trample their rights. You will be well taken care of.”

Let’s also not forget about the fact that there are 50,000 SWAT team raids in America each year. USA! USA!

16 thoughts on “Pepper Spray Cop Receives $38,000 Settlement from the University of California”

  1. He deserves every bit of the public reaction. He should of been arrested for multiple assault, disorderly conduct and probably more. I don’t care what color his clothes are. This country is getting more ridiculous with each passing day.

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  2. There are other videos that show the cops were surrounded and blocked in by those peaceful protesters. The protesters were antagonizing the police like a bunch of retards. Try fucking with the police and see what happens to you. Idiots.

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    • Links please.

      So your saying the armed and geared up for Afghanistan cops were “surrounded and blocked in by those peaceful protestors” and that was enough to set them loose and spray toxins on the people sitting down in front of them who had their heads turned down? Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

      The antagonizing part is also a bunch of nonsense. If that were ok to do, as you say, then every murderer could just claim to the court “hey, he was antagonizing me”. Ok, acquitted! LOL.

    • Oh look, another piece of shit just reared itself up from the cesspool of humanity.
      So, ‘MisterBaghead,’ I guess your solution, whenever the cops brutalize innocent, law-abiding people, is simply to side with the ones with the weaponry?
      Yeah, I guess, from your low-level, bottom-feeding thought-process, we (who bravely stand up for something better) seem like “idiots.”
      And I guess it won’t be until we, the vast majority, finally wake up and throw the burden off this oppressive system off our backs, (along with the bully-parasite enforcers) that you MAY begin to see, (for a micro-second) what a loser you (and EVERYONE you’ve ever… influenced) are.
      So keep talking piece-of-shit. Keep shootin off your shitey mouth. It only makes it that much clearer to the rest of us: the choice between much-needed-love vs. just more scum.
      And watch out for that BIG slap across the side of your foul-smelling head, that’s going to inevitably going to come, (from places mysterious).
      Ha!!

    • Mister Baghead is a troll. One of those lowly life forms that do anything for money. He’s nothing to get worried about.

  3. Michael, I follow your website regularly and I agree with most of what is posted. However, you make the 50,000 SWAT raids per year across the nation sound so bad. But if you break it down, it doesn’t look that way.

    The following math is all approximate. Ok, there are 52 weeks in a year. That means there are roughly 960 raids per week across the whole country. There are around 300 cities in the country with a population of 100,000 or more. So that works out to around 3 raids per week per city. Not so bad when you consider that I haven’t even taken into account the cities under 100,000.

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    • I think some of the points the Blitzkrieg was making is the following:

      1. There are way too many swat team raids per year. It’s increasing every year exponentially and for no good reason. This is militarization of local police. And acclimating the sheeple to just get used to it. That is, until they come for you.

      2. Most of them are for non-violent crimes. Like raw dairy raids. Yeah, that’s productive and just.

      Basically, they just send out these hit squads for whatever reason someone in upper mgt. comes up with that may or may not have anything to do with why we really do have swat teams.

      Like the shooting at the Naval yard on 9-16-2013 in DC. They made the swat team stand down because they didn’t want them stopping their false flag. Pathetic.

    • And you believe there are 3 SWAT-worthy events per week for each city of 100,000+ people??

      It’s attitudes like yours that make it hard not to despair for the US.

  4. Another reason why cops or as I like to call them government funded street thugs are pure scum. We need solutions like the Threat Management Center in Detriot. Lew Rockwell.com dubbed them as an anarcho-police force.

    Heres an interview from CopBlock.org

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