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http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/23/21105239-university-of-california-cop-who-pepper-sprayed-student-protesters-awarded-38000?lite

A former University of California policeman who stirred public outrage by pepper-spraying peaceful student protesters has been awarded $38,000 in worker's compensation for psychiatric damage he claimed to have suffered from the 2011 incident, the university said on Wednesday.

Then-campus police Lieutenant John Pike came to symbolize law enforcement aggression against anti-Wall Street protests at the time when video footage widely aired on TV and the Internet showed him casually dousing demonstrators in the face with a can of pepper spray as they sat on the ground.

Pike was suspended from his job at UC Davis and ultimately left the force in July 2012, but university officials did not disclose the circumstances of his departure.

A scathing 190-page report on the incident found that university officials and UC Davis police used poor judgment and excessive force in the confrontation. And the incident was widely mocked in satirical messages posted on the Internet in which still photos of Pike wielding his pepper spray were inserted into famed works or art or pop culture images.

The university last fall agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit brought on behalf of the 21 students who got sprayed and later reported suffering panic attacks, trauma and academic problems as a result.

In June of this year, Pike himself filed a worker's compensation claim with UC Davis over the incident, saying he suffered unspecified psychiatric and nervous system damage, though the document did not explain how he claimed to have been harmed, records show.

On October 16, the state Division of Workers Compensation Appeals Board agreed to resolve his claim by paying him a settlement totaling $38,055, UC Davis spokesman Andy Fell said on Wednesday.

"This case has been resolved in accordance with state law and processes on workers' compensation," Fell said in a written statement. "The final resolution is in line with permanent impairment as calculated by the state's disability evaluation unit."

Fell said he was not at liberty to elaborate on Pike's claim or the circumstances behind it.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Pike had earned more than $110,000 from his job in 2010, citing a database of state worker salaries from the last year for which figures are available.

The newspaper said he had received more than 17,000 angry or threatening emails, 10,000 text messages and hundreds of letters after the video of the pepper-spraying went viral.

UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi had asked prosecutors to look into possible criminal charges against the police officers involved in the pepper-spraying. But the Yolo County District Attorney's office determined there were no grounds on which to bring a case.

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Mike Nelson here.
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thirdplace posted:

Yolo County District Attorney

liquorgross should get this job so we can giggle and call him the YOLO DA

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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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thirdplace posted:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luz46utT6h1qbwn05o1_1280.jpg



that thing is really fucking hueg irl. the painting too

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The painting is in the best city in the US, Chicago. Really looking forward to global warming because when the coasts are gone the big dog will be left standing safe and sound in the middle~
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what are the Virtues of Chicago dogg
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Mike Nelson here.
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it housed the brilliant milton friedman, who revolutionized our understanding of the monetary system.
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UNUSUALY COOL
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Chicago is a lot of fun if youre there with rich people iirc
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Uh hello Cook County, business is booming

plus there's that bean. it's metal in the shape of a bean. it is reflective. modern art is so great
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its a cloud.
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chicago's pretty great if you're looking to combine the excitement and vibrancy of minneapolis with the social and economic equity of new york
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Honestly, the greatness of the cook county legal/law enforcement community aside, the city is fantastic as far as cities go. It's a massive city with everything you could want, it has the diversity of neighbourhoods that should offer everything any given person could want, and yet it's affordable and doesn't suffer from the restrictions of a shithole like New York. If you have to live in the US, and you want to live in a major city, Chicago is tops. The only down side is that the museums kind of suck in terms of ancient greek statues and artificats, but the museum on Michigan ave has an extremely good ancient Chinese section.
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Mike Nelson here.
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chicago is great

*affects rock and roll voice* 25 or 6 to 4!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Mike Nelson here.
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Lykourgos posted:

Honestly, the greatness of the cook county legal/law enforcement community aside, the city is fantastic as far as cities go. It's a massive city with everything you could want, it has the diversity of neighbourhoods that should offer everything any given person could want, and yet it's affordable and doesn't suffer from the problems and restrictions of a shithole like New York. If you have to live in the US, and you want to live in a major city, Chicago is tops. The only down side is that the museums kind of suck in terms of ancient greek statues and artificats, but the museum on Michigan ave has an extremely good ancient Chinese section.

thanks. i trust your opinion as a learned man, i will consider chicago in future endeavors.

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getfiscal posted:

thanks. i trust your opinion as a learned man, i will consider chicago in future endeavors.



thanks, just keep in mind that Chicago has a gross number of murders higher than any other city in the US and has a number of dangerous neighbourhoods and the busiest criminal courthouse in the united states. Right now this trial is going on in the courthouse where I work:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/23310216-418/prosecutors-rest-their-case-in-natasha-mcshane-trial.html

you can come through this building any day of the week and something like this is going; this county as a whole racks up a couple of murders a day at least; decades ago the county was over a 1000 murders a year. If you google my name or any other ASA, you'll turn up us proffering facts on some shooting or another.

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Mike Nelson here.
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Lykourgos posted:

thanks, just keep in mind that Chicago has a gross number of murders higher than any other city in the US and has a number of dangerous neighbourhoods and the busiest criminal courthouse in the united states

oh i'm white

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i understand that in minneapolis they have fully enclosed walkways between buildings downtown so that you dont die an arctic man
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getfiscal posted:

Lykourgos posted:

thanks, just keep in mind that Chicago has a gross number of murders higher than any other city in the US and has a number of dangerous neighbourhoods and the busiest criminal courthouse in the united states

oh i'm white



Amusing, but these victims were white too

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/08/08/two-men-get-120-years-for-2006-rape-robbery-of-teen-girls/

(2013 FG/sentencing)

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minneapolis is actually pretty cool, i haven't lived there for a while now but i still get regular texts from the post-occupy anti-forclosure peeps makes me feel like a real activist guy
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Mike Nelson here.
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Lykourgos posted:

getfiscal posted:

Lykourgos posted:

thanks, just keep in mind that Chicago has a gross number of murders higher than any other city in the US and has a number of dangerous neighbourhoods and the busiest criminal courthouse in the united states

oh i'm white

Amusing, but these victims were white too

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/08/08/two-men-get-120-years-for-2006-rape-robbery-of-teen-girls/

lol: "Prosecuting Attorney Art Gumblefish said, 'It reminds me of the tale of the tortoise and the hare. From Greek times, you see.'"

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i lived in the twin cities and despite it being very small it was fun and cool. i felt like i knew everyone in the city after a year, but that was good.
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daddyholes posted:

i understand that in minneapolis they have fully enclosed walkways between buildings downtown so that you dont die an arctic man


Almost the whole downtown in Calgary has those walkways. It's pretty neat!
The coolest though is when you have a house with an attached garage and underground parking downtown (500$ a month lol). You can literally go days(weeks! even fuckign months!) without stepping a foot outside.

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Good to see Calgary responding to the needs of its marginalized vampire community.
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thats great guys but theyll have to pay me to get me to go to minneapolis just like they have to pay me to get me to go to chicago
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Lykourgos posted:

The painting is in the best city in the US, Chicago. Really looking forward to global warming because when the coasts are gone the big dog will be left standing safe and sound in the middle~



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Same goes for China if you're wondering, Luoyang standing tall, central china, shanghai swims with the fishes. Illinois and Henan fuxi and nvwa
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Friend, you don't know how much I was wondering.
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sup b*tch
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i live in the minneapple right now and it's pretty chill. the bikers here are the scum of the earth though
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you should go fuck with foreclosures, innsmouth
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political car tune
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Tokyo, Japan
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getfiscal posted:

Lykourgos posted:

thanks, just keep in mind that Chicago has a gross number of murders higher than any other city in the US and has a number of dangerous neighbourhoods and the busiest criminal courthouse in the united states

oh i'm white


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thirdplace posted:

you should go fuck with foreclosures, innsmouth



do you mean go mess around with people who have been foreclosed on or buy a bunch of foreclosed properties and become a Slumlord

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innsmouthful posted:

thirdplace posted:

you should go fuck with foreclosures, innsmouth

do you mean go mess around with people who have been foreclosed on or buy a bunch of foreclosed properties and become a Slumlord



Yes.

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two jobs > one job
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shitty properties are vanishing quickly in this city due to Luxury Condo Development.
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thirdplace posted:

chicago's pretty great if you're looking to combine the excitement and vibrancy of minneapolis with the social and economic equity of new york

new ad campaign for rahm could be immigrant workers and displaced people looking at the camera and saying "I'm here for the vibrancy"

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Lykourgos posted:

Honestly, the greatness of the cook county legal/law enforcement community aside, the city is fantastic as far as cities go. It's a massive city with everything you could want, it has the diversity of neighbourhoods that should offer everything any given person could want, and yet it's affordable and doesn't suffer from the restrictions of a shithole like New York. If you have to live in the US, and you want to live in a major city, Chicago is tops. The only down side is that the museums kind of suck in terms of ancient greek statues and artificats, but the museum on Michigan ave has an extremely good ancient Chinese section.


damn dog you might as well talk about the bean and the lake and the great Sports

everyone is miserable here, life is difficult being beaten by cops, unemployment, the rising bourgeois and their screwy tastes that arelike an growing mold, terrible work. no one is welcome here and it's a pestilent city full of bedbugs and no where to go at night unless you want to attend the latest development in the dilettantor circuit or the most disturbing "social justice" activisms.
I can't imagine the degree of naivety of anyone that "enjoys" it here, however much you can enjoy a city of depressed and drug addicted losers that are quite literally better off dead.

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Kurdt
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but what about the pizza
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it's Spectacular!
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gyrofry posted:

but what about the pizza



pizza is gross why anyone would eat that rubbish is beyond me

Chicago has a fair number of good restaurants in Chinatown, and there are good Greek restaurants in Greektown as well as a couple of other nice ones elsewhere like Papaspiros in Oak Park (re-opening soon)

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awesome i love gyros!