“A former University of California, Davis police officer who was fired after pepper spraying a group of students staging a protest in 2011, and whose actions went viral on the internet, is seeking workers’ compensation settlement, claiming the incident left him psychologically injured.” [ABC News]
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The story does not specify what sort of psychological damage he claims to have suffered. Perhaps it is grief at having blown a job as a $2.4 kilobuck a week job as a rent-a-cop by attacking people who were just sitting there. I know that would make me sad.
Bob
He is psychologically injured? So he had to admit to himself that he has power issues? That he has no empathy? It’s a long list.
Why sure, get a WC settlement. Then he can split that with the people that he really physically injured.
I understand that protesters and police actually negotiate treatment of illegal demonstrators. Perhaps the protestors accepted pepper spay to get good footage on news reports in lieu of being roughed up.
As applied to the Davis episode, William, that theory sounds to me like a bit of a stretch.
@Bob Lipton,
I would be willing to bet that the psychological injury claimed is embarrassment at having his abusive, power hungry attitude exposed to the world on YouTube.