{"id":28194,"date":"2011-11-20T06:51:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T11:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=28194"},"modified":"2011-11-20T06:51:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T11:51:20","slug":"eye-witness-report-from-uc-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/11\/20\/eye-witness-report-from-uc-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye Witness Report from UC Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Occupy Maced: Police pepper spray unarmed youth, tear tents down\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FBk1ogP18K0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Report from RT on the UC Davis pepper spray incident<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewcivilrightsmovement.com\/uc-davis-professor-demands-chancellor-resign-over-pepper-spraying-of-students\/news\/2011\/11\/19\/30450\">an open letter to the university&#8217;s chancellor<\/a>\u00a0by UC Davis English professor Nathan Brown:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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-\u200bsprayed 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-\u200bsprayed down their throats. Several of these students were hospitalized. Others are seriously injured. One of them, forty-\u200bfive minutes after being pepper-\u200bsprayed down his throat, was still coughing up blood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Below is another report from AlJazeeraEnglish, which also reveals that the university has announced a probe into police conduct.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eDu_Mji09fE<\/p>\n<p>A detailed report from the <em>New York Times <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/19\/video-of-police-pepper-spraying-u-c-davis-students-provokes-outrage\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report from RT on the UC Davis pepper spray incident From\u00a0an open letter to the university&#8217;s chancellor\u00a0by UC Davis English professor Nathan Brown: 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Eye Witness Report from UC Davis - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/11\/20\/eye-witness-report-from-uc-davis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eye Witness Report from UC Davis - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Report from RT on the UC Davis pepper spray incident From\u00a0an open letter to the university&#8217;s chancellor\u00a0by UC Davis English professor Nathan Brown: Police used batons to try to push the students apart. 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