UC Davis officer an Internet 'meme' after pepper-spray incident

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It is hard to know how the gentlemen and gentlewomen of the late 19th century would have responded to being blasted in the face with pepper spray.

But in a Photoshopped image of Georges Seurat’s famous pointillist painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” a hat-wearing victim with an umbrella over her head appears totally unfazed.

The woman is enjoying her outing and does not flinch as the man reported to be Lt. John Pike of the UC Davis campus police sprays the brown substance (which did not emerge until the next century) into her eyes...

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more > UC Davis officer an Internet 'meme' after pepper-spray incident - latimes.com by Matt Stevens

Photo: Georges Seurat’s "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" with Lt. John Pike Photoshopped in. Credit: peppersprayingcop.tumblr.com

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here is another from peppersprayingcop.tumblr.com -

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PEPPER SPRAYING COP

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