Wow

Thank god this U.C. Davis crowd showed such remarkable restraint. The video opens with an unbelievable act by an officer and ends with the crowd chanting peaceful invitations for the officers to leave.

If you'd care to let the police lieutenant know how you feel about his actions, his work email address and private contact information are available here. Or you can call the UCD cops. Obviously, be polite but firm. But please don't pile on with the morons who will ruin his credit, subscribe him to bulk paper mail and all the other things that certain elements on the net inevitably use to punish people. If the system works as it should, the life this guy had is already over. No job, no retirement, and a dozen assault convictions on his record.

The administration has a different take on it but I suspect that will shift.

It's bad enough that people use prods on cattle. Hopefully abusive cops learn before it's too late that using TASERs as people-prods and pepper spray without cause is unjust and criminal. Eventually some officer will do this sort of thing in to a crowd that forcefully react to a similar injustice and that's not good for anyone.