U.C. Davis Police Chief Annette Spicuzza in an interview with CBS in which she justifies the police’s use of force yesterday on student protestors: “If you look at the video, you’re going to see there was over two hundred people in that quad, and they had already pretty much encircled those officers.”

The implication is that police feared for their safety prior to the decision to pepper spray the sitting protestors. Video via lhfang86.