UC Davis police chief resigning after pepper spray

[MindMover]

Source: AP

DAVIS, Calif. (AP) -- The police chief who oversaw the University of California, Davis, police department during its notorious pepper-spraying of Occupy protesters said Wednesday that she is stepping down.

UC Davis spokesman Barry Shiller said Annette Spicuzza told the school she is retiring effective Thursday.

Spicuzza told the Sacramento Bee ( http://bit.ly/HydOWH ) that she does not want the Nov. 18 incident to define her or the university, and she's leaving so everyone involved can move forward.

"For the past seven years, I have accomplished many good things for both the police department and community here at UC Davis; and am grateful to those of you who have remembered this," she wrote to the paper.

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OCCUPY_PEPPER_SPRAY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[Auggie]

1. When do the civil / criminal trials start against John Pike???

[Brigid]

14. That's what I want to know.

But I'm pretty sure at least civil suits have been filed already.

[RobertEarl]

2. well

lets hope you enjoy your gold plated can of pepper spray that you have to carry with you forevermore.

[TheMadMonk]

3. She shouldn't be resigning. She should be explaining why she...

...didn't terminate the prick with the can BEFORE that vid hit the innertoobs.

[markpkessinger]

4. I would vote for "both/and" n/t

[markpkessinger]

5. Good first step; but where is Chancellor Katehi's resignation? n/t

[sabrina 1]

8. Good question. She is the most responsible, as it was she who called the police airc and did nothing

to stop that assault on the students.

Not to mention, the salary she receives. No wonder college tuition is so high when we have people like her being paid half a million dollars to do whatever it is she does, which seems to be to protect the wealthy from dissenting students.

And have we been given the names of the criminals who nearly killed two Iraq War Vets in Oakland yet? Something is very wrong in this country. Brutal attacks on citizens by public employees are apparently not even worthy of an investigation anymore.

[lunatica]

6. Good fucking riddance

Get someone who understand that the police are here to SERVE the public, not bully it.

[Meiko]

9. What do you expect

when the cops are armed to the teeth with every type of military weapon. If they have them they are going to use them. I am really surprised that nobody was seriously injured. We should be glad they weren't TASERED and then clubbed.

[Brigid]

15. It's like that old saying:

When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

[saras]

7. No duh. No criminal wants their crime, trial, and sentence to "define" them.

You would think she'd know by now that "moving forward" simply doesn't work.

The wrongdoers need to publicly confess that they did wrong, and not make excuses.
They need to make amends, and fix whatever trust they broke, as well as committing to paying medical bills into the indefinite future.
The administrators need to fix the system so that it can't happen again.

THEN we can all move on.

[beac]

10. " retiring effective Thursday"? "retiring" is NOT the same as "resigning".

I'd love to know how fat a pension she'll be drawing.


(BTW, link to Sac Bee article in OP is broken. Here's the story: http://www.ktvu.com/ap/ap/california/uc-davis-police-chief-resigning-after-pepper-spray/nMcc6/)

[SomeGuyInEagan]

11. Agreed - shitty headline writing. n/t

[musiclawyer]

12. Translation: Resigning before report comes out

Because report will lead to termination.

[marble falls]

13. About freaking time. Where's Lt. John Pike's letter of resignation .......

or is he next in line for the Chief's job?