Calls Mount for UC Davis Chancellor to Resign Following Brutal Pepper-Spraying of Student Protesters

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"More than 34,000 people have signed a petition calling on Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi of the University of California at Davis to resign her position after nonviolent student activists were pepper-sprayed in the face at point-blank range by a riot police officer, identified as Lieutenant John Pike.

The petition, started by David Buscho, one of the students who was pepper-sprayed by the officer, reprints a letter from UC Davis faculty member Nathan Brown, an assistant professor in the Department of English. Brown wrote, in part:"

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[peacebird]

1. The uc Davis police chief has also been put on paid leave

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/11/21/142586964/uc-davis-pepper-spraying-police-chief-put-on-leave-chancellor-to-speak?ft=1&f=1001

[RKP5637]

4. Good!!! n/t

[teddy51]

2. I hope she does the right thing and resigns, and takes the Police Chief

and the two officers on seen with her.

[RKP5637]

3. They are definitely unfit to serve. n/t

[xchrom]

5. She needs to go. Nt

[RKP5637]

6. Almost 66,000 have now signed the petition. n/t

[KamaAina]

7. I hear there's an opening at Penn State

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