Pepper Spray Content

Chancellor May’s Statement on 10-Year Anniversary of Campus Pepper Spray Incident

Amy E Rafferty — November 18, 2021 - 7:00am

Chancellor Gary S. May issued the following statement today (Nov. 18):

On Nov. 18, 2011, I had just finished dinner with my family in Atlanta when I learned that protesting students at 51�ԹϺ�� Davis had been pepper sprayed by campus police. I was simply stunned. I could not imagine how something like that could have happened.

A Decade of Listening and Action

Dave Jones — November 16, 2021 - 1:54pm

Lessons from Nov. 18, 2011, continue to shape 51�ԹϺ�� Davis' progressive campus safety reform and focus on student basic needs to this day.

Use of pepper spray not justified, concludes Reynoso task force

IET WebDev — April 12, 2012 - 12:00am

The long-awaited Reynoso task force report released on April 11 criticized the 51�ԹϺ�� Davis administration and police for the pepper spray incident of Nov. 18, while recommending a series of reforms to make the university a model for free speech.

The report declared at the outset that the pepper spray event “should and could have been prevented.”