University of California would pay $ 30,000 each to 21 plaintiffs in a class-action suit . Comment: Video footage of Pike spraying student demonstrators with the irritant at close range went viral , provoking widespread criticism of school authorities and making him a target of Internet ridicule . Davis campus police pepper-sprayed seated student protesters at an Occupy camp . A video of the close-range pepper spraying went viral last year .
University of California would pay $ 30,000 each to 21 plaintiffs in a class-action suit . Comment: Davis campus police pepper-sprayed seated student protesters at an Occupy camp . A video of the close-range pepper spraying went viral last year .