{"id":27358,"date":"2012-04-12T07:10:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T13:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/12\/in-case-youve-forgotten-about-that-uc-davis-pepper-spray-thing.html"},"modified":"2012-04-12T07:10:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T13:10:52","slug":"in-case-youve-forgotten-about-that-uc-davis-pepper-spray-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/12\/in-case-youve-forgotten-about-that-uc-davis-pepper-spray-thing.html","title":{"rendered":"In case you&#39;ve forgotten about that UC Davis Pepper Spray thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes these reports come out and folks get all, &quot;Oh, <i>that<\/i> again?  Why are we dredging up news from (all of) six months ago?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>They forget, of course, that task forces to report on these sorts of things take time &#8212; time to gather up information, consult with experts, craft the report itself &#8230; heck, even time to fight back court cases seeking for the report to be quashed.<\/p>\n<p>They also forget that often immediate reaction to these events his forestalled by the authorities with promises that there will be full and thorough investigations.  &quot;We don&#39;t want a rush to judgment! We want some careful examination of the facts, not just competing headline blurbs! Give us some time, and then we can react properly.&quot;  <\/p>\n<p>If that&#39;s <i>not<\/i> to be considered simply a stalling tactic, merely a way of getting people to forget what happened in favor of the next news cycle excitement &#8230; then it&#39;s necessary to actually pay attention when these things come out.<\/p>\n<p>So the question then becomes, what happens now?  Will there be some actual accountability imposed on the UC Davis police?  Or the university chancellor?  <i>That&#39;s<\/i> the real news story now.  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F11%2Fpepper-spray.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/education\/2012\/04\/11\/462900\/uc-davis-report-pepper-spray\/'>Report On UC Davis Pepper Spray Incident Finds Police Conduct \u2018Objectively Unreasonable\u2019<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTwo reports commissioned by the University of California-Davis to investigate the infamous pepper spray incident from last fall have been released to the public, and they appear to verify most of the &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><strong>Google+:<\/strong> Reshared <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/dpYaKj4wcxK' target='_new'>1<\/a> times <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes these reports come out and folks get all, &quot;Oh, that again? Why are we dredging up news from (all of) six months ago?&quot; They forget, of course, that task forces to report on these sorts of things take time &#8212; time to gather up information, consult with experts, craft the report itself &#8230; heck, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/12\/in-case-youve-forgotten-about-that-uc-davis-pepper-spray-thing.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In case you&#39;ve forgotten about that UC Davis Pepper Spray thing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-27358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132612,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/22\/forget-about-alt-right-this-is-the-era-of-alt-truth.html","url_meta":{"origin":27358,"position":0},"title":"Forget about &quot;Alt-Right&quot; &#8230; this is the era of &quot;Alt-Truth&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 22-Jan-17 10:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And if that sounds Orwellian ... well, it should.First:;Kellyanne Conway, a senior White House aide, told NBC\u2019s Meet the Press on Sunday Spicer had merely been offering \u201calternative facts\u201d, a phrase that was received with widespread astonishment.'Sadly, not so much astonishment as one would expect.'\u201cIf Trump can\u2019t handle the press\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9659,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/17\/dumb_filters.html","url_meta":{"origin":27358,"position":1},"title":"Dumb Filters","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-May-06 2:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If it weren't that so many schools and libraries are required to use Internet content filters, as opposed to dumb, set-and-forget home users, this sort of thing would be funny....","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hi-Tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hi-Tech","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/hi-tech"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20394,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/05\/unblogged-bits-sat-5-mar-11-1631.html","url_meta":{"origin":27358,"position":2},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Sat.  5-Mar-11 1631)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 5-Mar-11 4:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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