Updated below (on Tuesday, November 22, 2011)
So after his fascistic actions on Friday, already University of California at Davis Police Lt. John Pike is an Internet sensation, now known around the world as the “Pepper-Spraying Cop.” I would call him the “Pepper-Spraying Pot-Bellied Pig,” but “Pepper-Spraying Cop” is more succinct.
Here are some images from the growing collection at http://peppersprayingcop.tumblr.com/:
Poor Cindy Lou! (Seasonal, though.)
I never liked the sanctimonious Tim Tebow. The Pepper-Spraying Cop would never pepper-spray someone like Tim Tebow, though. I mean, Tebow is a right-wing white male.
PETA will be on it.
Well, he is one of our stormtroopers…
He always plays the villain…
It was sad when King Kong died.
Hey, he asked her to move.
A little more political. (And pretty much what our liberty has come to.)
Wait — that’s a real photo, isn’t it?
And that one, too?
The mystery is finally solved…
Bush always was overprotected.
Jesus suffered a lot on his way to the cross.
Even God isn’t safe.
This one, I think, is my favorite, for its political content (and its technical quality):
And the first runner-up (this one via Joe. My. God.):
If I knew PhotoShop, I think that I’d do one of the “Pepper-Spraying Cop” as WALL-E floating around in outer space, using his pepper-spray canister to propel himself. (Would he have to hit Eva in the face with his pepper spray, though?)
On a serious note, Lt. Pig — er, Pike – has been placed on administrative leave, as has the UC Davis Police chief. Hopefully they will get more than a slap on the wrist. Hopefully, they will be sued and lose.
In other news, First Lady Michelle Obama was booed at her appearance yesterday at a NASCAR event – because her appearance delayed their traditional cross-burning. (Seriously, though, even uber-dipshit George W. Bush knew to appear only before receptive — that is, wingnutty — audiences.)
Update (Tuesday, November 22, 2011): Here are more from http://peppersprayingcop.tumblr.com/. I love this shit, and I think it’s great that one 1-percent-protecting cop’s appalling, Nazi-like behavior against non-aggressive young people can be turned into humor. That is, I think, one of the strengths of the left: our ability to turn the right wing’s most appalling actions into humor. (Indeed, the wingnuts’ rare attempts at humor are pathetic.)
It’s a wonderful life, indeed.
Damn hippies deserve it!
This one might be my new favorite:
Waldo clearly was resisting.
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He's a cop who was doing what he was told to do the way he was trained to do it.
You got problems, take it to his superiors.
The Nazis also were just taking orders.
Morality -- get some!
And I went to a NASCAR race once, and there wasn't a black or even brown person to be seen anywhere within 30 miles of the event, and many of the fine patrons were wearing confederate flags on hats and t-shirts. So I would have told Michelle, these are not your people.
Michelle's handlers should have known better than to have her appear at a NASCAR event. What's next? Sending her to an NRA convention?
Back to the pepper-spraying pot-bellied pig: News reports are that he was NOT ordered to pepper spray the non-combatant students. The campus police department's guidelines allow the use of pepper spray in some situations. Obviously this situation did not call for the use of pepper spray, and thus the INTERNATIONAL OUTCRY. I mean, the university's chancellor can't apologize enough amidst the calls for her resignation, and the university's police chief wouldn't have been put on leave if the use of pepper spray in this case had been perfectly OK.
Finally, the university's police guidelines very most likely will be revised in light of this debacle. And I still hope that the students who were aggressed upon by the fascistic cop sue the holy fucking shit out of him, the campus police department and the university.
And no word yet from "Democratic" California Gov. Jerry Brown, who's too busy vacationing in some undisclosed location (I'm not making that up) to be a LEADER and to condemn this police brutality.
The Sacramento Bee reports today (this is a copy-and-paste):
As the tent city on the University of California, Davis, tripled in size, Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi insisted Tuesday that the school's police department defied her orders when it used force against students in last week's pepper-spray fiasco.
"We told the police to remove the tents or the equipment," Katehi said in an interview with The Bee in her office inside the administration building, which remains locked down to the public.
"We told them very specifically to do it peacefully, and if there were too many of them, not to do it, if the students were aggressive, not to do it. And then we told them we also do not want to have another Berkeley."
In her most expansive comments since Friday's attempt to remove the tents spiraled into the pepper-spraying of students, Katehi said she still does not know who decided to use pepper spray and was stunned when she first saw video clips of it Friday night.
"It looked horrible, horrific, I would say … , " Katehi said. "I can tell you that I woke up Saturday really early in the morning, like 3 a.m., and I felt like it was a disaster on our hands."
She also said she never would have approved the use of full-scale riot gear by officers sent in to remove the students and that Police Chief Annette Spicuzza was part of an emergency conference call before the incident.
"We told her that it has to be peaceful, that anything else would not be acceptable," Katehi said one day after Spicuzza was placed on administrative leave along with two officers who used the pepper spray. ...
Full article here:
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/23/4074993/katehi-campus-police-were-told.html
My guess is that the pepper-spraying pot-bellied pig made the decision to use pepper spray on his own. I doubt that anyone instructed him to do so, but the university's forthcoming review on the debacle should reveal exactly who made the fucktarded decision to pepper-spray students who were not aggressive.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/makes-sense-uc-davis-pepper-spraying-officer-has-a-record-of-using-gay-slurs/
Yes, our ranks of "law enforcement officers" are FILLED with stupid white men -- right-wing, misogynist and patriarchal, racist and white supremacist, homophobic, xenophobic, "Christo"fascist, etc.
They're supposed to work for ALL of us, since WE pay their salaries, but they allow their right-wing agendas to dictate how they perform their jobs.
UC Davis Police Lt. John Pig is just the tip of the fascistic iceberg.
However, I suppose that we could "thank" him for being the poster pig for police brutality. I mean, his immoral and illegal act has brought the world's attention to the problem, and no doubt other pigs will think twice before pepper-spraying civilians who pose no threat.