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Thousands protest pepper spray at California campus
Tuesday November 22, 2011 07:31:49 PM,
IANS
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Washington: As a crowd
of thousands protested over police using pepper spray against
Occupy protesters at University of California Davis last week, the
university chancellor apologised and placed the camp police chief
on leave.
"I am here to apologize," Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi said
through a microphone after climbing onto a small stage erected on
the university's "quad" for Occupy supporters Monday, according to
CNN. "I really feel horrible for what happened on Friday."
Video of police pepper-spraying nonviolent demonstrators at a
sitting protest Friday on the Davis campus has sparked widespread
criticism, including calls for Katehi's resignation.
"If you think you don't want to be students in a university like
we had on Friday," Katehi said, "I'm just telling you I don't want
to be the chancellor of the university we had on Friday."
The statement triggered cries of "Resign!" from the crowd.
The university said it has placed two police officers and the
police chief on administrative leave in the wake of the incident,
while officials investigate officers' use of pepper spray against
protesters.
A group of about a dozen protesters sat on a path with their arms
interlocked as police moved in to clear out a protest encampment
affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement Friday.
Most of the protesters had their heads down as a campus police
officer walked down the line, spraying them in their faces in a
sweeping motion.
The Davis Faculty Association, citing incidents at other campuses,
demanded "that the chancellors of the University of California
cease using police violence to repress nonviolent political
protests."
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