Occupy Wall Street: Students attacked with pepper spray

The video of students who are being attacked by police with pepper
spray, is spreading like wildfire in the current Internet. The young
people on the campus of the University of California Davis did last
Friday, their sympathy for the Occypy Wall Street to bring movement to
express. The rigorous approach to the chained protesters shocked.
Rescission claims against Principal Linda Katehi to be loud.

Topics: attack, Davis Faculty Association, demonstration, Linda
Katehi, Occupy Wall Street, pepper spray, police, University of
California, USA

Mike Fetterman treat the student must follow the pepper spray attack
on the campus of the University of California firefighter Nate Potter
leave. (Photo: ddp images / AP)

The police seem to keep a straight face. He pulls out his pepper
spray, presented again to the present photographers and aims then
calmly before him at the students sitting on the ground. Occupy their
passive demonstration for Wall Street was up to date movement. A
request to abandon their camp, they had resisted, however, beaten in
police warnings of the wind. That the state authority but in fact such
acts, so that probably had not expected.

Eleven students have to go after the attack in medical treatment. Two
young people even end up in hospital. Ten protesters were arrested.
Methods used in Hochsicherheitstrackten American prisons to
incapacitate criminals severely, have now apparently moving into the
fight peaceful protests found. By the way, alone, to persuade the
protesters to get up.
Linda Katehi is located on the side of supporters Occupy

Even university Rector Linda Katehi is shocked. The circulating video
she called a "scary". There, it is said in her message on the website
of the university, throwing a lot of questions about it, would be how
to deal with such situations best.

Nevertheless, calls for his resignation were raised against them.
According to the Davis Faculty Association Katehi have hampered the
investigation of the spray-attack. That they had agreed to the police
operation, was an absolute failure of her person. It is now still on
the side of the Occupy supporters and called the actions as "sad and
totally inappropriate". Now is when it comes to the will of the
Rector, a task force investigating the matter. To a resignation, one
might then announced it at a press conference last Saturday, they do
not think so. "I do not think I have violated the guidelines of the
institution," said Katehi. "I have personally worked very hard to make
this campus a safe campus for all."

From the police, the procedure is evaluated quite differently,
however. From the sources said, that this act is a standard procedure
of officials. In the U.S., pepper spray can be used any time by police
officers against persons. And also, in order to force them to get up -
without taking the risk of being injured themselves.
Rigorous approach of the police to take

Police action against this kind Occupy Wall Street demonstrators took
place already in the U.S. in Portland or Seattle. Victims were not
only young people. The officials did not hesitate about a 84-year-old
elderly woman to spray directly into face. In New York was then of the
solidarity among the officials concluded. A retired friend who had
joined the protesters, was arrested.