[MelBridgeman]

Originally Posted by vanisleflamesfan

The UC Davis event was a shocking and disgusting display of unwarranted and unreasonable brutality on the part of the campus police towards the protesters. The protesters had taken down their tents as requested; they were sitting peacefully, not being violent in action or word. They were not threatening the (campus) police; they were not harming anyone or anything. They were practicing their constitutionally protected right to peaceful demonstration. The campus police, completely unprovoked, and in violation of their own internal policies regarding the use of pepper spray, simply walked up to them and blasted them with pepper spray at point blank range.



I don’t care what your politics are, perhaps you don’t agree with, or understand the occupy movement, and that is fine. But to cheer the deplorable actions of the campus police in this case and to cheer the unwarranted and unprovoked violence and harm perpetrated against other human beings just makes you look like sad. Are you really that committed to your political stance that you can’t see how horrible this was? Do you really feel that people, who are protesting peacefully, a right protected by the founding documents of their countries, should face such extreme punishment? Do you really feel that the police should be able to react with this level of extreme violence even where no laws have been broken?
I would hope that, regardless of their political beliefs, every person could see that the campus police were in the wrong here, and that this was a horrible event.



Sick.

ha ha ha talk about blowing it out of proportion! If they were subjected to a firing squad I would agree with you.