By Stephanie H. and Russell P.

On November 18, 2011, several students were victims of police brutality at UC Davis. As part of the Occupy movement, students participated in a quiet protest by sitting in a circle and holding hands on a college quad at the Davis campus. Although the protest was peaceful and non-violent, police officers asked the protestors to leave the quad. When the students refused to leave, Lt. John Peep peeper-sprayed the students. Witnesses at the protest video-taped the event, and it instantly became a viral video and a symbol of the Occupy movement.

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