To our everlasting shame as a country.At a news conference later on Saturday, Katehi said what the video showed was "sad and really very inappropriate.''
The events surrounding the protest had been hard on her personally, but she had no plans to resign, she said.
"I do not think that I have violated the policies of the institution. I have worked personally very hard to make this campus a safe campus for all,'' she said.
Charles J. Kelly, a former police lieutenant in Baltimore who wrote the department's use of force guidelines, said pepper spray was a "compliance tool'' that could be used on subjects who did not resist, and was preferable to simply lifting protesters.
"When you start picking up human bodies, you risk hurting them,'' Kelly said. "Bodies don't have handles on them.''
After reviewing the video, Kelly said he observed at least two cases of "active resistance'' from protesters.
"What I'm looking at is fairly standard police procedure,'' Kelly said.
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"Sad and really very inappropriate.'' Somehow that doesn't accurately describe it, in my opinion. And who was it who put the whole thing in motion by sending in the cops? Uh-huh. The sad chancellor.
A “compliance tool.” And I guess you don’t hurt those handle-less bodies when you pick them up after spraying them? Only before.
Annette Spicuzza, the UC Davis police chief, told the Sacramento Bee newspaper that police used the pepper spray after they were surrounded.
Protesters were warned repeatedly beforehand that force would be used if they didn't move, she said.
"There was no way out of that circle," Spicuzza said. "They were cutting the officers off from their support. It's a very volatile situation."
Armed, riot gear outfitted police had no way out of a circle of peacefully protesting students and curious onlookers. Boy, I bet they were terrified. They looked terrified, didn't they?
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