Cop Who Pepper-Sprayed Students At Occupy Protest Wants Worker’s Compensation For ‘Psychiatric Injur

[kpete]

Source: Talking Points Memo

DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — The former police officer who pepper-sprayed students during an Occupy protest at the University of California, Davis is appealing for worker’s compensation, claiming he suffered psychiatric injury from the 2011 confrontation.

John Pike has a settlement conference set for Aug. 13 in Sacramento, according to the state Department of Industrial Relations’ website.

Pike was fired in July 2012, eight months after a task force investigation found that his action was unwarranted.

Online videos of him and another officer casually dousing demonstrators with pepper spray went viral, sparking outrage at UC Davis leaders. The images became a rallying symbol for the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Read more: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pepper-spray-cop-occupy-protest-wants-workers-compensation-for-psychiatric-injury.php?ref=fpb

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In this Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, photo University of California, Davis Police Lt. John Pike uses pepper spray to move Occupy UC Davis protesters while blocking their exit from the school's quad Friday in Davis, Calif. Two University of California, Davis police officers involved in pepper spraying seated protesters were placed on administrative leave Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011, as the chancellor of the school accelerates the investigation into the incident.

[leveymg]

1. The UC insurance plan doesn't cover self-inflicted wounds.

Psychopath.

[Roy Rolling]

6. I was thinking the same thing

Either self-inflicted, or more likely, he had psychiatric problems to begin with----a pre-existing condition.

[AtheistCrusader]

13. It's not a psychiatric problem. He just discovered his conscience is all.

Apparently it is causing him some discomfort. Working as intended.

[lsewpershad]

2. This must be a joke

He sprayed and he suffered??????

[pscot]

3. He filed a workmen's comp claim?

Oppressing the masses causes job related stress.

[R Merm]

4. He is obviously already being treated with medical marijuana to make a claim like that.

[dusty trails]

5. Hmmmm

I pity the fool (not)

[frylock]

7. fuck this fucking pig

[bemildred]

8. He should be in jail. nt

[Blue Owl]

9. Pepper spraying his face would be good compensation

There's your fucking compensation you piece of shit.

[They_Live]

15. Every single morning

dispersed by his alarm clock.

[MisterP]

10. wait, I thought the Hard-Hat, meat-n-taters-til-ya-die-at-54 git-'r-done crowd HATED

any talk of emotional damage or psychology or anything like that?
(it's 'cause they see themselves as always the victimizer, and thus nothing bad can happen to them like it does to wimps and weenies)
that then raises the question: are Pike's supporters further to the right than HE is?

[JoeyT]

29. They view themselves as independent get-'r-done types,

but generally also view themselves as the victim. It's why they screech "REVERSE RACISM!" when someone darker than beige cuts them off in traffic and why we have to put up with the goddamned WAR ON CHRISTMAS!!! every single fucking year (Which is probably going to start next month).

It goes beyond being paranoid. It's a burning desire to see themselves as the good guys, and acknowledging that you are all that is bad in the world doesn't make you the good guy. So they have to pretend that what they're doing to everyone else is really everyone else doing it to them.

They just hate psychology because it's complicated and complicated things make them feel stupid. It's the same reason they hate books and math.

[bluedeathray]

11. He's protesting his treatment?

Pepper spray that bastard!

[heaven05]

12. no

a jury of your peers deny your request, asshole.

[City Lights]

14. Fuck him.

[avaistheone1]

17. Yes, what you said.

K&R

[jzodda]

16. Fuck this pig

He deserves a beating not some payout.

[Dawson Leery]

18. Taking this filthy pig's bloated pension and handing over to his victims would be just.

[WCLinolVir]

23. Nothing wrong with workers having a pension. Stop demonizing benefits.

It's bs.

[PD Turk]

19. Screw him

What he deserves is my foot in his ass!!

[Kelvin Mace]

20. OK, I have to comment on this one bit

Online videos of him and another officer casually dousing demonstrators with pepper spray went viral, sparking outrage at UC Davis leaders. The images became a rallying symbol for the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Really? A "rallying symbol"? I guess that is why the Occupy Movement is such a powerful political party/force today, one that brought about reform of brutal police tactics and the downfall of Wall Street and its criminal abuses.

Oh wait, that never happened. We were denigrated by the media and our own party as "dirty fucking hippies" and laughed at. The police state has expanded its power, reach and inhumanity and the people are pretty okay with that.

I am sorry. I wish I could be optimistic, but people really do not care. As long as they can watch Honey Boo Boo, play "Call of Duty" and post LOLCat pix to Facebook, they are content to give up every freedom they have. By the time they wake up and figure it out, they will be standing just outside the "delousing chamber".

[Plucketeer]

21. Truly LOL-worthy!

This ass-hat finally realizes he might ought to be on the side with the demonstrators! TOO LATE, idiot!

[WCLinolVir]

22. Ahh jeez. What a drama queen.Too bad they can't just fire him.

He saw the protesters winning a lawsuit and was jealous. He probably also had some blow back because of what he did, and he feels victimized now.

[ut oh]

24. He deserves

jail time for his assault on those kids, not worker's comp.

What a dbag....

[tanyev]

25. Awww, did he get a blister on his trigger finger?

[louis-t]

26. Mmm-hmm. Right after he pays the people he inflicted

physical and emotional damage on by spraying them. Sicko.

[silvershadow]

27. Why? Did he accidentally spray himself? nt

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

28. This guy.....

.....bites the bag!

[PatrynXX]

30. Like the Train operator in Spain. It's a little late to have a conscience

At this rate someone called Charles Manson will sue for having mental illness.

[backscatter712]

31. Sorry, worker's comp doesn't pay for self-inflicted injuries... n/t

[marions ghost]

32. Got what he deserved

Somebody call the waaaahmbulance...