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.

UC Davis, earlier today. Under Chancellor Katehi’s orders, campus police and police attempt to clear protesters. When protesters are noncompliant, police use pepper spray. Video courtesy of YouTube member iamtoddkaiser.

UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi walking to her car after police and campus police today pepper sprayed student protesters under her orders. A comment on YouTube described the scene perfectly: a walk of shame.