While the setting — a California campus — and the fact that pepper spray was used on protesters will remind many of , you can see in the videos popping up on YouTube that what happened last night at Santa Monica College, a public two-year institution, was a much different scene.
The Occupy UC Davis protesters were pepper sprayed as they sat in an act of civil disobedience. Tuesday night at Santa Monica College, "about 100 students protesting a plan to offer ... tried to storm into a meeting of the college's Board of Trustees," .
And it was during all the shouting and pushing that someone — it's believed to have been a campus police officer — deployed the pepper spray. , the already chaotic scene got even more raucous.
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