The Vanguard has not completed its person-by-person analysis just yet.  On Tuesday, Chancellor Katehi made her first public comment on the release of the report. Once again, she said she accepted "ful ...

As Kroll aptly notes, Lt. John Pike of the UC Davis Police Department became the face and image of the pepper spray incident.  "The image of Lieutenant John Pike spraying the activists has gone beyond ...

It was a statement that certainly jumped out of at us as we read the report by the Reynoso Task Force and Kroll.  The statement made by John Meyer seemed like a statement from another time. He explain ...

In a sweeping irony on a number of fronts, the administrator who emerges from the pepper-spray debacle looking the best is Assistant Vice Chancellor Griselda Castro.  The would-be hero was ultimately ...

When I interviewed the students and ACLU Attorney Michael Risher about why they chose to file their lawsuit before the external review was complete, the simplest answer I could get from any of them wa ...

One of the critical questions raised by the Kroll Report and the subsequent Reynoso/Task Force Review is the legal authority for the police to remove the tents and therefore arrest the protesters.  Th ...

Chancellor Linda Katehi perhaps has a brief window of time to act in order to save her job and in order to take advantage of the consensus for change, despite the vote of confidence she received from ...

Davis Police Chief Annette Spicuzza was played on paid administrative leave shortly after the pepper spray incident went down on November 18, 2011.  The question now is what will happen to her. The Ch ...

Six of the 12 students facing charges for bank blocking in the Memorial Union were either pepper sprayed or arrested on November 18, according to one protester involved in both incidents.  By itself, ...

While legislators such as Speaker John Perez and the always-outspoken Senator Leland Yee, along with Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, immediately responded to the report, Davis' own legislators took a more ...

Despite the pepper-spray incident and ensuing media frenzy, largely staying out of the limelight was Vice Chancellor John Meyer.  This despite the fact that the vice chancellor is the direct line supe ...

Earlier this week, the police union's attorney, John Bakhit, threw a curveball to those eagerly awaiting the release of the pepper-spray report when he told the local newspaper that Reynoso's report w ...

Task Force Presentation Generates Anger and Frustration Among Students and Community Members Former Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso was stark, critical and to the point on Wednesday afternoon durin ...

While there was no shortage of opinions on the pepper-spray report that, in the words of Cruz Reynoso on Wednesday afternoon was “finally” released, there was a remarkable lack of comment by local pub ...

Task Force and Kroll Find Pepper Spray Not a Reasonable Use of Force; Hammers Chancellor and Lt. Pike - The findings of the long-awaited Pepper-Spray Report are basic and succinctly summarized in the ...

John Bakhit, who represents Lt. John Pike and the Federated University Police Officers Association, suddenly broke his silence and indicated the Reynosos report was "going to surprise a lot of people, ...

In the end, attorneys for Lt. Pike and other officers represented by the Federated University Police Officers Association, must have felt that while they could delay the report, they were only foresta ...

The University of California is apparently announcing a settlement of sorts, with the pepper-spray report due out on Wednesday.  The task force has scheduled the public release of its report and recom ...

The decision made by the Yolo County District Attorney's office to prosecute 12 protesters for their involvement in the demonstration and blockade of the US Bank Branch located in UC Davis' Memorial U ...

When the November 18 pepper-spray incident occurred, three days later there was a rally held on the Quad, the entire Quad was full with at least 5000 rallying to support those who had been pepper spra ...