Here's what I read this as:
The UCDavis superintendent and the higher ups in the police department failed to do their jobs properly in planning how to actually remove unlawful protesters. They sent in too few cops with clear instructions to break everything up. Protesters got out of hand. The cops on the scene were put in a crap position with no good options. This guy got the unfortunate job of braking up the protestors circling the squad cars with the best tool at his disposal: pepper spray.
Video of it went viral. Everyone got pissed off and blamed him. Although the ones who really berkeleyed up were his superiors, he was the obvious scape goat, so he got sacked to appease the mob.
Dude loses a job and wants some money to offset all the crap he is now dealing with, and the difficulties he will now face finding any sort of new employment. This was the easiest case to make to get some money after being thrown under the bus.
In reply to Beer Baron:
Yep. The guy was berked no matter what...
Yes, they look totally out of hand sitting on the ground there..
bgkast wrote: Yes, they look totally out of hand sitting on the ground there..
Yup. The situation looks really simple and obvious when you limit how much of the event you actually look at.
In reply to trigun7469: except for those that actually get hurt at work. Then its barely enough to get by most of the time.
yamaha wrote: In reply to ronholm: Have you been on the recieving end of that much hate mail?
what I can't understand is how electronic hate mail can hurt me .... and I include the suicides that result from cyber bullying ... once I start to recognize the incoming e-mails for what they are, it's really pretty easy to hit delete .. don't even open them (the ones that I recognize the address of) just delete
plus I've been known to change my e-mail address when the spam has gotten too thick ...
bgkast wrote: Yes, they look totally out of hand sitting on the ground there..
watch the whole video, and read about what was going on that day. getting pepper sprayed is what they wanted to happen so they could become martyrs for the cause and heroes to the ADD addled youtube generation, and it's what they got...
These "activists" want to get pepper sprayed for their cause. Oblige them Lt.
Beer Baron wrote:bgkast wrote: Yes, they look totally out of hand sitting on the ground there..Yup. The situation looks really simple and obvious when you limit how much of the event you actually look at.
Phat basturd blows his brains out pepper spraying kids paying 80,000 dollars to learn Ornamental Horticulture. Alleged brain damaged. Cost to taxpayers? Priceless. More pictures please!
i think this thread pretty much shows that he deserves the cash for all the mental anguish..
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