"A regular guy named John Pike has become the new face of evil among people following the Occupy protests around the country. The UC Davis police officer's matter-of-fact pepper spraying of seated, obviously peaceful students has provoked justifiable outrage. James Fallows summed up the situation with his usual precise moral compass. "This is what happens when authority is unaccountable and has lost any sense of human connection to a subject population," he wrote. "That's what I think here.""
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Alexis Madrigal, "Why I Feel Bad for the Pepper-Spraying Policeman, Lt. John Pike", The Atlantic (2011)
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