De-Provincializing Police Violence: On the Recent Events at UC Davis
Submitted on December 13, 2011
By Dylan Rodríguez - Znet
We should be clear: the UC Davis police used caustic “nonlethal” spray on those student protesters because they could. The institutional entitlement to use such police force...is neither incidental nor ad hoc — it is systemic, legally supported, and absolutely normal. As we approach the 20th anniversary of the acquittal of five Los Angeles Police Department officers in the street torture of Rodney King, it is urgent to once again examine how police violence shapes our everyday realities in different and contradictory ways.
