Occupy Protest Pepper Spraying Cop Files for Workers Compensation after Firing The notorious former police officer who pepper-sprayed students during a 2011 Occupy protest at the University of Southern California, Davis is appealing for workers compensation. He claims that the 2011 incident caused him psychiatric injury. John Pike has a settlement conference on August 13th in Sacramento regarding his workers compensation claim. The now former police officer was fired in July 2012, 8 months after the pepper spray incident occurred, and a … [Read more...]