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UC Davis Police Pepper-Spray Students Sitting on the Sidewalk

Nov 21, 2011, 10:15 AM | Updated: Oct 14, 2024, 4:50 pm

The chancellor of UC Davis is under fire after campus police pepper-sprayed peaceful protestors who were doing nothing but sitting on the sidewalk. We’ve heard similar stories before, but seeing the video below underscores how shocking this incident was.

The pepper-spraying incident quickly became a meme online, with people inserting the “casually pepper-spraying cop” into various well-known paintings, photos, album covers and the like.

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UC Davis Police Pepper-Spray Students Sitting on the Sidewalk

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