Chutzpah, Thy Name Is Pike

John Pike, the former UC Davis cop who casually pepper-sprayed students during a 2011 protest, is seeking workers' comp, claiming he suffered psychiatric injury from the incident. No, really. Pike was fired after eight months' paid leave despite arguing to investigators that he had to use pepper spray “to gain compliance (and) get my troops out of there." Pike has an upcoming hearing for his claim of psychological injury - though you'd think such injury might in fact have preceded the lunatic, sadistic decision to douse peaceful, seated, defenseless people in the face in order to inflict excruciating pain for no discernible reason, no?

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#Summerheat Activists Arrested Protesting State Dept Contractor Who Lied About TransCanada Ties

54 #Summerheat activists from the group 350.org were arrested Friday after blockading the elevator and entrances of the Environmental Resources Management Office in DC. It was recently revealed that ERM, the State Department's lead consultant to assess environmental impacts of Keystone XL, has deep ties to the fossil fuel industry.

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