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The UC Davis Pepper Spraying Incident

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Killgore Trout11/19/2011 12:36:04 pm PST

re: #107 calochortus

I might point out to those unfamiliar with UC Davis, it is a rural, fairly conservative school maybe 20 minutes west of Sacramento. There is the usual amount of crime that you would expect on a college campus, but it’s not exactly a hotbed of activism. I’d guess the campus cops had no clue what an appropriate response might be. That is in no way an excuse for them, more of an indictment of their training.

Which is why I really don;t think the campus cops should be dealing with this. I think Berkley also had some questionable response from their campus police too. I don;t know what the laws are but campus meter maids shouldn’t be handling this. It’s safer for everybody if real trained cops were handling this.