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UC Davis Students To Receive $30,000 Each Over Pepper-Spray Incident

Posted: September 26, 2012

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The University of California Davis will be giving $30,000 to each of the 21 students who were pepper sprayed by campus police last year. The student’s will also receive a formal letter of apology from University Chancellor Linda Katehi.

The SF Gate reports that the The American Civil Liberties Union sued the University of California on behalf of the students earlier this year. A settlement was submitted to a federal court earlier this morning. It still has to be approved by a judge.

Fatima Sbeih, one of the student’s that was pepper-sprayed while participating in a protest on campus, said:

“I want to make sure that nothing like this happens again. The university still needs to work to rebuild students’ trust and this settlement is a step in the right direction.”

ACLU attorney Michael Risher added:

“If the First Amendment means anything, it’s that students should be able to exercise their free speech-rights on their college campus without being afraid of police violence. What happened on Nov. 18 was among the worst examples of police violence against student demonstrators that we’ve seen in a generation. The settlement should be a wake-up call for other universities and police departments.”

The settlement states that the school will pay a total of $730,000 to the 21 students who were pepper-sprayed on the UC Davis campus. The school will also pay $250,000 to the ACLU. The ACLU will also be working with campus officials to change campus policies in regard to student protests.

You can watch the video of the UC Davis pepper spraying incident here.



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3 Archived Responses to “ UC Davis Students To Receive $30,000 Each Over Pepper-Spray Incident ”

  1. DREGstudios! Art & Design
    Sep 26, 2012

    When will we start holding officers accountable for their brutality and excessive use of force? The handling of protesters is Unconstitutional and endangers the basic rights of EVERY last American. Is this the country we were raised in, were men and women are beaten, gassed, pepper-sprayed and arrested for their disapproval of the government? Read about how the Cops profit from rounding up protesters and minorities in our Capitalized Police State at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-privatized-police-state.html.

  2. Milan Moravec
    Sep 26, 2012

    With the influence of UC Berkeley Chancellor Birgeneau, Provost George Breslauer deployed excessive force by campus police – rammed baton jabs – on students protesting Chancellor’s doubling of resident tuition. Sack (honorably retire) dysfunctional Provost Breslauer. Birgeneau resigned.

    Email a message to UC Board of Regents marsha.kelman@ucop.edu and Calif. State Senators and Assemblymembers.

  3. Milan Moravec
    Sep 28, 2012

    Over one million dollars in adm, consultant, legal expenses incurred by University of California senior management for the $1 million pepper spray settlement. Californians shell out $2 million for incompetent University of California senior management.
    Prop 30, 38 funding will be spent by incompetent University of California senior management.