Article posted Thursday, November 7, 2013 1:30pm
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On Nov. 18, 2011, former police Lt. John Pike pepper sprayed protesters at the University of California – Davis campus. The protesters were part of the campus Occupy Wall Street movement. A video of the incident went viral, and Pike was suspended with pay after the incident.
$38,055
Workers’ compensation Pike received from the university for the “psychiatric injury specific or due to continuous trauma from applicant’s employment at UC-Davis.”
$119,067
Pike’s pay in 2011.
15
Seconds Pike is recorded spraying demonstrators with pepper spray.
17,000
Angry or threatening emails Pike received after the video received nationwide attention.
10,000
Angry text messages Pike received after the video received nationwide attention.
$1 million
Settlement UC-Davis paid to the protesters who were sprayed.
Source: The Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle