Sometimes, video evidence isn’t what it seems to be. Sometimes, it can be very misleading if all you see is an excerpt, taken out of context, from the whole of the event. That now appears to be exactly the case with a widely circulated video clip from last week.
I am sure most people, by now, have seen the clip of police pepper spraying OWS morons at U.C. Davis. There they were, looking all peaceful, sitting on the ground, arms linked when along came the big bad police, those establishment, law enforcement officers who, out of the blue and for no reason at all, let loose with cans of pepper spray.
Oh the humanity, the horror. Doing such a thing to those who were simply exercising their 1st amendment right to gather, why, it’s just unthinkable.
UC Davis Chancellor, Linda Katehi, has, with tears in her eyes, apologized to students for the actions of the police.
Two officers and the campus police chief have been placed on leave.
UC President Mark Yudof has denounced the police for the pepper spraying of those students.
Students at UC Davis are demanding the Chancellor resign and they want the cops fired.
It’s a mess at UC Davis and all because of this piece of irrefutable video evidence.
That video clip CLEARLY show police pepper spraying those students FOR NO GOOD REASON WHATSOEVER!
Whoa…Hang on there…Not so fast.
