Pepper Spray Content

Chancellor May鈥檚 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 UC 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 UC 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 UC 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 鈥渟hould and could have been prevented.鈥�