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Hacker Group “Anonymous” Targets UC-Davis Pepper-Spray Cop



Nov 24, 2011 23 Comments ›› Pat Dollard

The Cut Line:

The rogue hacker group known as Anonymous posted a YouTube video disclosing the cellphone number, email and home address of Lt. John Pike, the University of California Davis police officer who sparked worldwide outrage when he pepper-sprayed a group of student protesters over the weekend.

“Dear Officer John Pike,” a computer-generated voice in the video said. “Your information is now public domain.”

The video, which was posted on Tuesday, has since been removed because it is “a violation of YouTube’s policy prohibiting hate speech.”

Anonymous has threatened or claimed credit for attacks on numerous media organizations, including Fox News–but this appears to be the first time the hacking group has targeted an individual.

“We have no problem targeting police and releasing their information even if it puts them at risk,” the group said, “because we want them to experience just a taste of the brutality and misery they serve us on an everyday basis.”

The voicemail box for Pike’s cellphone was full late Tuesday, the Daily News reported.

“Expect our full wrath,” the video concludes. “Anonymous seeks to avenge all protesters. We are going to make you squeal like a pig.”

Pike and another officer were reportedly placed on administrative leave following the weekend clash with protesters on the UC-Davis campus.

The image of Pike pepper-spraying the students has been seared into the public consciousness. Photoshopped images of Pike pepper-spraying other things–like Mt. Rushmore–have gone viral.

But not everyone is convinced Pike’s use of force was excessive. On Monday, Fox News’ Megyn Kelly told Bill O’Reilly that pepper spray “is a food product, essentially.”


  • http://patdollard.com USMC3112

    Let us 99% get a hold of anonymous’s email,cell number and home address and do the same thing to him and his family! Aliensky’s rules for radical raaaaaaaaaaacist.socialist/marxist’s in REVERSE!!

  • http://patdollard.com USMC3112

    Let us 99% get a hold of anonymous’s email,cell number and home address and do the same thing to him and his family! Aliensky’s rules for radical raaaaaaaaaaacist.socialist/marxist’s in REVERSE!!

  • http://patdollard.com USMC3112

    Let us 99% get a hold of anonymous’s email,cell number and home address and do the same thing to him and his family! Aliensky’s rules for radical raaaaaaaaaaacist.socialist/marxist’s in REVERSE!!

  • http://patdollard.com USMC3112

    We have to protect our law enfocement from these insane ows thugs!

  • Anonymous

    Love the sign off about the food product.  Anonymous has many fans.

  • Anonymous

    Love the sign off about the food product.  Anonymous has many fans.

  • Tate

    People were outraged by the pepper spraying incident?  Hmm, I have yet to meet anyone that was outraged.  No, more like they have been thrilled at seeing the hippies getting their own behavior thrown back at them.

    My thought though is how do they really know they’ve been pepper sprayed?  I mean if they can tolerate their own stench they can certainly tolerate a little pepper spray….

  • Dongrimmshp

    This is ignorance.  OWS and Anonymous are fighting for the american people.  Those protestors at UC Davis did nothing wrong but that “thug”, John Pike, attacked them.  And this is happening all over the nation right now.  Thousands of documented accounts of unprovoked police brutality are popping up everywhere.   Do you dare ask why?  I’ll tell you.  The powers that be want to instigate riots so they can have excuses to clear the streets of all protestors.  Public protests make the 1% nervous.  
    The methods used by Anonymous may not be, in your opinion, just or righteous, but they are the only people avenging the wrongs done to innocent people these days when the system is clearly operating in favor of the 1%.  
    And let’s not get into the legal aspects of the practices of the financial institutions that are under scrutiny from Anonymous and the american people.  Laws and policies have been put in place, for the benefit of the greedy 1%, that give the financial institutions the ability to rob the average citizen. 
    In a time when we, as a nation of struggling citizens, are still in the beginning stages of recovering from an economic catastrophe, there should be more of a sense of community, unity or solidarity among the american people.  We all support one another.  There can be no big money without the little people, collectively.  But big money has completely forgotten about the economic balance that must exist for everyone to prosper proportionately.  If the little people are going bankrupt in record numbers, due to the insidious practices of those who control money, they have less money to spend on the services/products that the big businesses offer, which results in the financial institutions doing further damage to the system.  They see this but don’t care.  They know they can ask for a multi-billion dollar bail-out and it will be granted.  Should I explain how the bail-outs hurt the nation even more or do we all get the picture???   
    Most of us understand all this and more.. but it seems as though there are still several people who don’t have a clue.  
    Greed is the enemy.  Media sources like Fox news are the enemy, for allowing such ridiculous statements to be spewed from the mouths of those who represent them.  If Megyn kelly can say that pepper spray “is a food product, essentially”, then it could be said that guns are just “a steel product, essentially”.  Just as ridiculous, right?  
    OWS IS NOT THE ENEMY.  ANONYMOUS IS NOT THE ENEMY.  Greed and ignorance are the enemies.  Wake up and support the future of this nation… the future of our children… and ask yourself, “would our forefathers have approved of our current state?”

  • Themisterbrooks

    WWow….I never saw more ignorance in one place….fuck the police

  • Themisterbrooks

    WWow….I never saw more ignorance in one place….fuck the police

  • Themisterbrooks

    Look at the picture….these innocent ppl are just sitting down covering their heads, while this pussy with the riot gear is spraying them with a potentially lethal pepper spray……I hate the cops…..meanwhile, thousands of rich assholes they are protesting are out with prostitutes doing cocaine……such a shame….sad sad

  • Themisterbrooks

    AAnd I hope they blow this pussy ass cops phone up lolololol….I hope he fuckin choked on it…….

  • Dongrimmshp

    This USMC guy commenting on here must have PTSD.  What an uninformed, presumptuous douche.  Thanks for your service but even my kids know that if they don’t know what they’re talking about they need to stop talking.  

  • Dongrimmshp

    i have yet to see a hippie at any occupy demonstration.  maybe you should get your eyes checked, old timer.  ;0

  • Dongrimmshp

    i have yet to see a hippie at any occupy demonstration.  maybe you should get your eyes checked, old timer.  ;0

  • Adrasteia(Nemesis)

    What some people dont realize is that the stuff he is spraying isnt fucking pepper spray, its mace that if enough gets in your eyes it will completely blind you, literally! Or burn your skin or any number of things. I dunno if anyone saw it on my fb but I posted the video, the students were sitting there minding their own damned business and he came through and maced them all to be a douche bag. Tate, you must be really stupid. I wont even say the obscenities that come to mind when I read your post. Fox News can go to hell. Go Anonymous!

  • Adrasteia(Nemesis)

    These are quotes on what “a little food product” does to you

    Inflamation of the eyes, which makes it almost impossible to see anything and temporary and sometimes permanent blindness

    Vomiting, which if inhaled directly in also causes an inflamed throat and they can choke on their own vomit and die

    Inflammation of the Nose, Lungs and Throat, which includes breathing tubes and sometimes is so severe that life support is needed to keep enough oxygen going into the victim of the pepper spray. It causes at the very least 20-25 minutes of uncontrollable coughing

    Burning and inflamation of the skin

    Many people who are sprayed with Mace or pepper spray are disoriented
    and have trouble standing up, which could be because the spray causes a
    temporary blindness and difficulty breathing which can mess with their
    balance and perception

    Let me also remind you of what these students were doing to NOT DESERVE this

    The first amendment,

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
    prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
    speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to
    assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

    Read more: Mace & Pepper Spray Side Effects | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/list_6401481_mace-pepper-spray-side-effects.html#ixzz1ely2ueyA

  • Adrasteia(Nemesis)

    These are quotes on what “a little food product” does to you

    Inflamation of the eyes, which makes it almost impossible to see anything and temporary and sometimes permanent blindness

    Vomiting, which if inhaled directly in also causes an inflamed throat and they can choke on their own vomit and die

    Inflammation of the Nose, Lungs and Throat, which includes breathing tubes and sometimes is so severe that life support is needed to keep enough oxygen going into the victim of the pepper spray. It causes at the very least 20-25 minutes of uncontrollable coughing

    Burning and inflamation of the skin

    Many people who are sprayed with Mace or pepper spray are disoriented
    and have trouble standing up, which could be because the spray causes a
    temporary blindness and difficulty breathing which can mess with their
    balance and perception

    Let me also remind you of what these students were doing to NOT DESERVE this

    The first amendment,

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
    prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
    speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to
    assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

    Read more: Mace & Pepper Spray Side Effects | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/list_6401481_mace-pepper-spray-side-effects.html#ixzz1ely2ueyA

  • Adrasteia(Nemesis)

    I really hope you have a mental defect that causes all this rediculousness to flow out of your mouth

  • Adrasteia(Nemesis)

    I really hope you have a mental defect that causes all this rediculousness to flow out of your mouth

  • stewent

    Jarheads aren’t paid to think. It’s not exactly their strong suit.

  • Fuck Tate

    You are not only ignorant, but also very childish. Turn off your TV and go outside. The world is so much more than Glenn Beck and Rush.

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