Sunday Update | I’ve collected a lot of the most important info from this liveblog in a new post: Ten Things You Should Know About Friday’s UC Davis Police Violence. Check it out, then scroll down in this post for additional updates.
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Yesterday afternoon, after UC Davis police dismantled an Occupy encampment on their campus, making several arrests, a group of students sat down.
That’s it. They sat down. They sat down in a wide ring around the officers, backs to the group, and bowed their heads. Some linked arms. Many did not. Officers were positioned behind the students and in front of them, and — as multiple videos show — were able to move past them easily in both directions.
To clear the demonstrators from the sidewalk and the lawn the police pepper-sprayed the line. Just sprayed the entire line of students with a casual sweeping motion. Video shows that within eight seconds of the first use of spray, the line was broken up and no longer even minimally restricted police action, but the spraying continued.
One student witness says that police sprayed the thickest section of the line and that there were gaps in it at other points — that it was always, in other words, a symbolic rather than an actual barrier. This video shows that two officers initially moved in to remove students from the line without violence, but were waved back by a superior so that he could spray them instead.
Students. Sitting down. With bowed heads. On university property. Police freely moving around them, pepper spraying them, facing no resistance whatsoever. Just students. Sitting on the ground.
Here’s how Nathan Brown, a Davis faculty member who was on the scene, describes what happened next:
Police used batons to try to push the students apart. Those they could separate, they arrested, kneeling on their bodies and pushing their heads into the ground. Those they could not separate, they pepper-sprayed directly in the face, holding these students as they did so. When students covered their eyes with their clothing, police forced open their mouths and pepper-sprayed down their throats. Several of these students were hospitalized. Others are seriously injured. One of them, forty-five minutes after being pepper-sprayed down his throat, was still coughing up blood.
Not all of this account is corroborated by video, but much of it is. Cameras caught police kneeling on students’ backs and spraying them directly in the face. This video shows police roughing up a student who was laying face down on the ground as his friends shout “he’s not resisting!” One journalist reported that a female student was taken from the scene in an ambulance “for treatment of chemical burns,” while another said that eleven students were treated by paramedics at the scene and that two were transported to a local hospital. (That second report also notes that university staff and administrators watching the protest “did not seek medical assistance for those hurt until asked.”)
Annette Spicuzza, the chief of the UC Davis police department, told the local CBS news that officers began spraying, in the station’s paraphrase, “out of concern for their own safety,” a claim that video and photos of the incident demonstrate to be entirely false. She told the Sacramento Bee that officers “officers were forced to use pepper spray when students surrounded them,” that — and this is a direct quote — “there was no way out of that circle.” But video shows this to be a lie as well. Officers were moving freely throughout the incident, and the officer who sprayed first, Lt. John Pike, was standing inside the circle immediately before he began spraying. He stepped over the students, out of the circle, in order to spray them.
UC Davis chancellor Linda Katehi released a statement last night in which she said she “deeply regretted” students’ actions yesterday, actions that “offer[ed] us no option but to ask the police to assist in their removal.” But of course you can’t regret something that someone else did, something you had no control over.
For the actions she did have control over, and will have control over in the future — the violence of her police — Katehi expressed no regret. She was, she said, “saddened.” She was “saddened to report that during this activity, 10 protestors were arrested and pepper spray was used,” and “saddened by the events that subsequently transpired to facilitate their removal.” No regret. Not even an active voice.
Just sadness at what those awful students made her do.
Update |UC Davis police chief Annette Spicuzza is “very proud” of her officers. “They did a great job.”
Second Update | I mentioned this in the body of the story, but it’s worth underscoring at greater length. This video starts about two and a half minutes before the most widely seen video of the incident. It opens with an officer whose face is never entirely visible (but whose sleeve markings and facial hair identify him as Lt. Pike, the primary sprayer), delivering a warning to a seated student. The student says “Just making sure, just making sure. You’re shooting us for sitting here.” Pike says something more, and the student says “No, that’s fine. That’s fine. You’re shooting us for sitting here.”
Then, at 0:06, Pike pats the student on the back as he walks away.
At 2:10 several officers step up to the line of students from the front. One reaches down to a female student (who, like many in the group, has not linked arms with the others), but as he begins to pull her up another officer says something to him and he retreats. A second officer who is about to pick up a different student is similarly waved off at 2:15. A line of about half a dozen officers then moves back from the line, obviously under orders.
At 2:23 Lt. Pike steps over the line of students, turns to face them, and begins spraying.
Third Update | Lt. Pike has received a salary in excess of $100,000 from the people of California each of the last three years. More than 40% of his 2010 salary came from student fees.
Fourth Update | CNN showed the pepper spray video this morning, with the anchor describing it as depicting a “scuffle” and a “back and forth” between demonstrators and police.
Fifth Update | This video confirms, starting at about 31:30, that it was Lt. Pike who chatted amiably with a student protester and patted him on the back moments before pepper spraying him. It also appears to confirm, at 34:10, that it was Lt. Pike who ordered the group of officers to abandon their attempt to remove students from the walk peacefully. At 35:30 it shows an officer using a baton to separate two protesters, as alleged by Professor Nathan Brown.
Sixth Update | UC Davis officials are continuing to offer flatly false characterizations of yesterday’s violence. University spokeswoman Claudia Morain told a Huffington Post reporter this morning that officers pepper sprayed students “because they needed to get out of there,” and that “the police tried to use the least force that they could.” Again, multiple videos show that police were never constrained from moving around the scene, and that Lt. Pike waved off officers who were attempting to remove students nonviolently just seconds before he began pepper-spraying a non-resisting, non-disruptive line of protesters.
Seventh Update | Not that it’s a surprise, but here’s confirmation, via @saramayeux on Twitter: The use of force at Davis yesterday violated UC’s Universitywide Police Policies and Administrative Procedures. Excerpts:
“Chemical agents are weapons used to minimize the potential for injury to officers, offenders, or other persons. They should only be used in situations where such force reasonably appears justified and necessary.”
“Arrestees and suspects shall be treated in a humane manner … they shall not be subject to physical force except as required to subdue violence or ensure detention. No officer shall strike an arrestee or suspect except in self-defense, to prevent an escape, or to prevent injury to another person.
Eighth Update | How did Pike spray the students? Like a gardener spraying insecticide, according to Gawker.
Ninth Update | I haven’t commented on the second half of the most commonly viewed video, in which the students appear to shame the police into retreating, because I haven’t been sure what to make of it. Luckily, Lili Loofbourow has written something amazing on the subject.
Tenth Update | Here’s a federal court ruling from 1997 which appears to indicate not only that yesterday’s pepper spray incident was an violation of the activists’ constitutional rights, but that Lt. Pike would be unable to hide behind “qualified immunity” in any court proceeding, and would thus be subject to suit as an individual.
Eleventh Update | At the beginning of this video a group of demonstrators start up a chant of “From Davis to Greece, Fuck the Police!” Other demonstrators immediately chastise them and get them to stop, saying “Keep it nonviolent! Keep it peaceful!”
Six and a half minutes later, they all get pepper sprayed.
Twelfth Update | Chancellor Katehi has just released a new statement on yesterday’s events. Quote: “The use of pepper spray as shown on the video is chilling to us all and raises many questions about how best to handle situations like this.” She’s creating a faculty/student/staff task force to review the incident. “We must ensure our strategies to gain compliance are fair and reasonable and do not lead to mistreatment.” Also:
“I am asking the office of Administrative and Resource Management and the office of Student Affairs to review our policies in relation to encampments of this nature and consider whether our existing policies reflect the needs of the students at this point in time. If our policies do not allow our students enough flexibility to express themselves, then we need to find a way to improve these policies and make them more effective and appropriate.”
Thirteenth Update | On Twitter, @NewYorkist points out that the lead sentence of Katehi’s statement is a direct, if perhaps unintentional, rebuke to her police chief. Where Katehi said that “yesterday was not a day that would make anyone on our campus proud,” Chief Spicuzza declared yesterday that she was “very proud” of her officers.
Snarky ironies aside, though, there’s not much of substance in Katehi’s new letter. The task force she’s establishing won’t report for 90 days, and won’t have any power then. There’s no indication elsewhere in the statement that Katehi is considering any disciplinary action against Pike or Spicuzza. Her review of encampment policies is intriguing, particularly given the larger climate relating to campus occupations in the state and nation, but it could easily come to nothing.
The statement is clearly intended to buy Katehi some breathing room. Whether it will do that remains unclear.
Fourteenth Update | The Davis Faculty Association, an independent lobbying group and watchdog organization, is calling for Katehi’s immediate resignation. From their website:
The Chancellor’s authorization of the use of police force to suppress the protests by students and community members speaking out on behalf of our university and public higher education generally represents a gross failure of leadership. … We also call for a policy that will end the practice of forcibly removing non-violent student, faculty, staff, and community protestors by police on the UC Davis campus.
Fifteenth Update | I’ll admit that after watching the first several videos I was skeptical of this claim, but a new California Aggie article has a named eyewitness report backing up Nathan Brown’s contention that police sprayed one of the protesters directly in the mouth.
Sixteenth Update | The Council of UC Faculty Associations, the statewide analogue of the group referenced in Update 14, has released a statement on recent police violence at UC and CSU. An excerpt:
We are outraged that the administrations of UC campuses are using police brutality to suppress dissent, free speech and peaceful assembly.
We demand that the Chancellors of the University of California cease using police violence to repress non-violent political protests. We hold them responsible for the violence and believe it can only result in an escalation of outrage that holds the potential for even more violence.
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Seventeenth Update, Early Sunday Morning | I’m going to be closing this post soon and starting up a new one (or several) to deal with the events of the last night and the new information that’s still arriving in a more orderly way, but I’ll post here for a little longer just to have a place to put my notes while I’m getting those followup posts organized.
There’s a lot to say about yesterday afternoon’s Katehi press conference and its aftermath, but one nugget just leaped out at me from a New York Times story: Asked if she planned to resign, Katehi said she didn’t consider that appropriate “at this point.”
There’s also this, from that same story: “The videos, however, show officers freely moving about and show students behaving peacefully. The university reported no instances of violence by any protesters.”
Eighteenth Update | In an extraordinary display of chutzpah, the UC Davis assistant vice chancellor for university communications Mitchell Benson tells the press that Katehi stayed in place at the site of yesterday afternoon’s press conference because “it didn’t seem like we would be allowed to leave … there was quite a loud, and I would hazard to say, hostile crowd outside both of the doors of the building and it didn’t seem that she would be able to get out in a safe manner.” As protesters noted at the time, however, and as they told the Davis Enterprise, they had no intention of interfering with Katehi. And ultimately, of course, when Katehi did leave, their restraint and self-discipline were awe inspiring.
Nineteenth Update | Three new posts on UC Davis this morning:
- Ten Things You Should Know About Friday’s UC Davis Police Violence
- Shame.
- Note to Media: The UC Davis “Investigation” is not the Story
I’m probably not going to update this post much more, if at all, so if you’d like to keep checking in on my updates on this story, you should follow me on Twitter or bookmark the blog.
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November 19, 2011 at 10:10 am
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November 19, 2011 at 11:58 am
omegawolf747Fang
The UC Davis cops are little more than modern day brown shirts. Shame! Shame! Shame!
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November 19, 2011 at 2:18 pm
Jennifer
This video starts a minute or so before the other and you can hear the officer and one of the protesters talking about why they are going to get sprayed.
November 19, 2011 at 2:39 pm
Angus Johnston
Thanks, Jennifer. That’s the one I linked to in my second update.
November 19, 2011 at 5:05 pm
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November 19, 2011 at 5:21 pm
Troglodtye
This is utterly revolting. It is particularly amazing that the police knew they were being video’d and went ahead in this callous manner, like people who have nothing to fear from any authority.
November 19, 2011 at 5:48 pm
Daniel J Kelly (@dkelly5_j)
2nd witness confirms US Davis cop sprayed directly into mouth
November 19, 2011 at 6:05 pm
wiscoDude
Chief Annette Spicuzza,
UC Davis Police Department,
(530) 752-3113
amspicuzza@ucdavis.edu
November 19, 2011 at 8:30 pm
Tabitha
You are a liar! And you need to quit misleading people. I am certified in the use of OC (pepper spray) and i have been sprayed with it myself. I know what it does. I know what it feels like. It wont make you bleed out of your throat. However, a determined protestor WILL bite the inside of their mouth creating a minor wound to create the ullusion of excessive force. I have friends that protest, and they actively plan things just like that to create propaganda material for their cause. I am also certified in the “use of force”. There was no excessive force. The protestors were lawfully orderrd to disperse and they refused. Just because they sat on the ground does not make their defying a lawful order any less unlawful.
November 19, 2011 at 10:11 pm
David
Dear fascist Tabitha: Of course you have been indoctrinated to believe that the determined protestor will injure themselves as a form of asymmetrical warfare, just like the suicides in Guantanamo. The truth is when one is chocking, coughing, and unable to breathe it is very easy to bite ones’ tongue, lip or inside cheek, resulting in quite quite a bit of blood flow. This blood with be spit out very actively because of the affects of the spray. Furthermore you have no idea what it is like to be massively sprayed in a hostile situation. When you tried it, it was a game.
November 19, 2011 at 11:35 pm
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November 19, 2011 at 11:38 pm
Will
I think this was perfect, its a bunch of protesters disturbing the peace, they are blocking the police in. BAD IDEA. And they simply wont open the walkway for them to get out. Moral of the story LISTEN TO THE POLICE how hard is it to get the fuck up and move out of the way when asked?
November 20, 2011 at 12:13 am
holdenweb
How hard is it to get out of fucking Afghanistand and Iraq
November 20, 2011 at 2:11 am
Dad
Please read this outstanding piece by UC Davis professor Bob Ostertag: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-ostertag/uc-davis-protest_b_1103039.html
November 20, 2011 at 2:28 am
Tabitha
No, i wasent playing a game when i was pepper sprayed. To be certified you are sprayed with it. This is done so that you know what it is like. You know the pain. I was becomming certified because i had joined the SWAT team at the local max security prison. Now, obviously, you dont know crap about pepper spray or the use of force. You are sheeple that fell for hippy crap propaganda and are to stupid to think for yourself. And you have no clue how good you have it in this country. Cause believe me, it is not so nice in other countries. I have traveled the world. 5 continents so far. Europe, the middle east, aisia, australia. Nowhere is better than here. Seen things that would make you run home crying to mommy. Your type cant handle the real world. And when the shit hits the fan, you wont survive. Because you are a sheep. Grow up…
November 20, 2011 at 2:36 am
Tad Ekam
Well, Tabitha, that was certainly a well-composed and -expressed argument that I won’t immediately dismiss as the rantings of a power-mad prison guard. Please keep writing, I’d like to continue to take you very very seriously.
November 20, 2011 at 3:00 am
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November 20, 2011 at 3:19 am
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November 20, 2011 at 3:53 am
David
Oh My Dear Tabitha t’was to a game, for I have played it as well. But in mine it was CS. We sat in that dim little out building and Gunny told us to take off our masks. Our eyes started burning and so did our noses, even though we held our breath. Soon tears were streaming down our checks and involuntary gasps produced a retching cough. But it was just a game because we knew that Gunny would finally yell “Get the fuck out of my room, you crying motherfuckers”. And so he did and so we did. Running around in the bright sunlight and sweet air, lesson learned that the gas mask was our friend. I can’t imagine what those brave students went through yesterday and neither can you. But I know enough to respect their bravery while you’ve been programmed to hate and denigrate the same. Just games Tabitha, just games.
November 20, 2011 at 7:37 am
Angus Johnston
Loath as I am to feed the troll, Tabitha, I’ll quickly point out that the use of pepper spray in these circumstances was a clear violation of UC policing policy, and likely a violation of the students’ Fourth Amendment rights.
The question isn’t whether these students are tough enough to handle being sprayed — remember that they sat there and took it, after all. The question isn’t whether they were violating the police’s orders, either — obviously they were.
The question is whether this is a reasonable, just, and lawful application of police power. You seem to think it is. You’re in a very small minority.
November 20, 2011 at 8:25 am
marcos
tabitha, i could pick at everything you said to point out the lies you state, so i will!
1.”There was no excessive force. The protestors were lawfully orderrd to disperse and they refused.”
-a federal court ruling from 1997
-Universitywide Police Policies and Administrative Procedures.
sorry i was sorta under the impression that all civil servants were taught more then how to kill, in which i mean, they are taught the laws of society. did you cheat your tests?
2.”I have friends that protest”
i find it so funny how you can so adamantly proclaim this, despite fighting it so hard on such an out of the way forum post. especially considering your friends are so underhanded as they are, says a lot about the type of person you are by the people you associate with.
3.”Cause believe me, it is not so nice in other countries.”
so instead of making sure it doesn’t become that you think we should shut up till it does? thats funny HAHAHA
4.”To be certified you are sprayed with it. This is done so that you know what it is like.”
so does that mean those students were being certified too? were they trained to be able to take physical abuse as well, and that was there “endurance testing” to chemical warfare? i could never be a civil servant, my nerves are far too sensitive.
5.”You are sheeple that fell for hippy crap propaganda and are to stupid to think for yourself.”
but if i listen to you, then im still not listening to myself! your confusing me! >_<
6."Cause believe me, it is not so nice in other countries. I have traveled the world."
you make a lot of money don't you… and for some reason, your masochistic personality squanders it all on the hell holes(from the way you word it) "make you run home crying to mommy", part of the regions. why do you even bother traveling if this place is the paradise? and dont tell me is some sort of journey of self discovery in this crappy economic era.
7."Because you are a sheep. Grow up…"
i like sheep, they help me sleep at night. hahaha and your the one supossibly arguing with people who are of lesser mental age. to simplify it, your the one arguing with kids HAHAHA your a funny hypocrite!
to sum up everything, you being…
swat…. bulls**t
knowing law…. bulls**t
traveling the world…. bulls**t
knowing the pain… bulls**t
having friends… id say you'd have very few of them to be wasting your time trolling.
you sir are a troll! and a very unconvincing one at that. and you should be questioning who is the sheep here.
November 20, 2011 at 9:04 am
tomasz.
Tabitha: 1. “coughing up blood” is not the same as “bleeding from a self-inflicted cut to the mouth area”, of any size. it’s just not. i expect the hospital who treated the student who was coughing up blood has better qualifications to judge this than “i was sprayed once when i trained to work in a prison” – a situation where, of course, you are generally dishing out the chemical abuse rather than receiving it, and where the degree and intensity of you being sprayed is basically a one-time formality, compared to the sustained and malicious deployment of it against unprepared people by cops on the ground.
2. “you should be grateful that the injustices in your country are less harsh than injustices elsewhere” is a terrible, intellectually bankrupt argument. the point is to oppose injustice everywhere.
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November 20, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Allananda
“Tabitha” would make a good Nazi.
There are two choices of a way to be in life…
Love and Compassion or Fear and Anger.
You choose, every moment.
November 20, 2011 at 4:09 pm
howard in nyc
dear tabitha:
i understand how you could devolve as far as to be unable to discern the difference between the max security convicts you patrol, and a group of free citizens, college students sitting in peaceful protest.
but there is a difference.
one group, you are paid to suppress, control, and maintain their distinct and specific lack of freedom. violently, whenever possible. rough job, no doubt; no denying that.
other group, peace officers are paid to protect. to secure from violence. to maintain and defend the specific freedom and rights the students possess from birth.
i understand your confusion, in missing the distinction between these two groups of human beings. perfectly understandable. glad i could help.
November 20, 2011 at 5:10 pm
carson
aight first of all whats the law against sitting on the ground? can you please explain me that? innocent harmless people getting sprayed for nothing and nobody revolts and harms the pussy ass cop? swag. fuck you tabitha
November 21, 2011 at 1:33 pm
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November 21, 2011 at 1:55 pm
T.R. Elliott
I have a question: When the above posted “Tabitha” doesn’t agree everyone calls her a “Nazi,” “Fascist,” and “troll.” So my question is: Does Tabitha have a long history of behaviors that warrant such name calling, or is this unwarranted ad-hominem on the part of the other commenters here?
November 21, 2011 at 2:15 pm
T.R. Elliott
Also, why did the students chant “we won’t let you leave” at one point? Were they holding the officers captive?
November 21, 2011 at 7:16 pm
marcos
@T.R. Elliott i never heard anyone chant that, if you did you either have good ears or a wild imagination. but judging from the fact i along with tabitha (since she would have used it in her statement) never heard it i would assume 1-2 people said that, and even though 3 people called her 1 of different names, doesn’t mean the general public agreed with us anymore then they agreed with your, guy who chanted “we wont let you leave”.
as for fascist, she supported the police choice to ignore the individuals rights because she simply don’t agree, as stated multiple times everywhere, they(protesters) were within there rights. she is supporting Totalitarianism. something Fascist attempt to vindicate. i think fascist is completely under permissible bounds.
the nazi’s were fascist, maybe not that she is a nazi, but she is like one in her political view point.
i say troll, because she is simply posting to criticize readers, denouncing the gravity of the situation, altering it to fit her favor. using half-assed lies, to further justify her obscured opinion. she has nothing to contribute, she is posting without intent to debate, her only intentions were to force her opinion into the faces of her opposition. and she has now vanished from responding, neither with a reasonable comeback or a admittance of ignorance, lies, change of opinion, or inability to agree. she is a troll.
i find it funny how tabitha can claim the protesters are “liars, cheats, conspirators, and un-american” but when she is responded with “fascist, nazi, and troll”, thats a step too far for you hahaha. she is the person who choose to warrant negative opinion from a community in pure opposition to her belief, and quite honestly, aggressive the comments may be, abuse none of them.
i hope more people like you come up, getting me to write like this is good practice in improving my writing.
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