U.C. Davis

The Need for “Zero Tolerance” of Police Brutality

Behrouz Saba

From New America Media: The recent pepper spraying of Occupy protesters at the University of California, Davis, went a long way to exposing an ethos of privilege, arrogance and contempt for students that is all too common among the top university administrators and campus police.

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