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Gawker settlement aftermath11/6/2023 ![]() “This case has been resolved in accordance with state law and processes on workers’ compensation,” UC Davis spokesman Andy Fell said in an email message to the Davis Enterprise.īernie Goldsmith, a Davis attorney supportive of the student protesters, told the Associated Press that the settlement “sends a clear message to the next officer nervously facing off with a group of passive, unarmed students: Go on ahead. The school and Administrative Law Judge Harter, who approved the settlement, apparently agreed that the eight months of paid suspension (during which Pike “earned” more than $80,000) wasn't compensation enough for the self-inflicted duress and awarded the former officer $38,056. The former UC Davis police officer who gained national notoriety after he was recorded callously… Pepper-Spraying Cop Seeks Worker's Comp for ‘Psychiatric Injury’ Hulk Hogan and Gawker are attempting to reach a settlementover the 140 million invasion of privacy judgment that ultimately led Gawker to declare bankruptcy. He also said his family received death threats. The UC Davis police officer at the center of a firestorm over the school's alleged…Ībout one year later, Pike, who made $121,680 per year as a cop, filed a worker's compensation claim, saying the event and its aftermath caused him to suffer depression and anxiety. Infamous Pepper-Spraying Police Officer No Longer at UC Davis The demonstrators later received a $1 million settlement from UC Davis, which, when divided among the 21 plaintiffs and their attorneys, left each protestor with about $30,000. The video went viral, becoming a sort of symbol and rallying cry for the Occupy movement, and Pike rightfully lost his job for the attack in July 2012. John Pike of the UC Davis Police force casually sprayed the passive protesters, and was, of course, caught on camera doing so. The payout is about $8,000 more than each of the assaulted demonstrators received in a settlement from the university last year, according to the Davis Enterprise. The former University of California Davis police lieutenant who brutally pepper-sprayed a group of peaceful Occupy protesters was awarded a $38,000 workman's compensation settlement from the school last week.
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