DAVIS, Calif. — The University of California, Davis police officers who doused students and alumni with pepper spray during a campus protest in November won’t face criminal charges, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The chemical crackdown prompted widespread campus protests and calls for the resignation of Chancellor Linda Katehi after videos shot by witnesses were widely played online.
But the Yolo County district attorney’s office said that there was insufficient evidence to prove the use of force was illegal.
John Pike, the police lieutenant who was shown in the videos pepper-spraying the protesters, told The Sacramento Bee he was relieved by the decision.
Pike was fired July 31.
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