Video: UC-Davis Police Casually Pepper Spray Sitting Protesters

—By Kevin Drum

| Sat Nov. 19, 2011 12:10 AM PST

Here's your blood pressure raiser of the day: Campus police casually pepper spray a group of Occupy Davis students who are sitting on the ground in protest after refusing to remove their tents from the quad. It's not Kent State or anything, but it's sure as hell an outrageous overreaction. Don't watch unless you have a fairly strong stomach for casual brutality.

Front page image: Louise Macabitas

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