The University of California will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit filed by Occupy protesters at UC Davis who were pepper-sprayed last November, according to a preliminary settlement filed in district court.
Here's more from the , which represented the plaintiffs in the case:
"The University will pay $1 million as part of the settlement. This includes a total of $730,000 to the named plaintiffs and others who were arrested or pepper-sprayed on November 18. It will also include up to $250,000 in costs and attorney fees."
The preliminary settlement, filed by UC and the plaintiffs represented by the ACLU, was filed in U.S. District Court in Sacramento. A federal judge must approve the agreement, and parties have the right to appeal.
The case is most famous because of the so-called "pepper spray cop," the UC Davis police officer who used tear gas against nonviolent demonstrators at the campus.
Here's about the outrage prompted by the incident:
"The Nov. 18, 2011, incident prompted national outrage, angry campus protests and calls for the resignation of Chancellor Linda Katehi after online videos shot by witnesses went viral.
Images of a police officer casually spraying orange pepper-spray in the faces of nonviolent protesters became a rallying symbol for the Occupy Wall Street movement. The demonstrators had been protesting steep tuition hikes and police brutality."
The development comes a week after Yolo County District Attorney's Office said it against the officers involved in the incident.
As The Two-Way's colleague Mark Memmott noted last week, Lt. John Pike, the officer pictured pepper-spraying the protesters, is no longer with campus police.
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