The more things stay the same…

“This piggish, criminal system. The system that is the enemy of people. This very system that we live in and function in every day. This system that we are in and under at this very moment. Our system! Each and every one of your systems. If you happen to be from another country, it’s still your system, because the system in your country is part of this. This system is evil. It is criminal; it is murderous. And it is in control. It is in power. It is arrogant. It is crazy. And it looks upon the people as its property. So much so that cops, who are public servants, feel justified in going on a campus, a college campus or high school campus, and spraying mace in the faces of the people. They beat people with those clubs, and even shoot people, if it takes that to enforce the will of the likes of Ronald Reagan, Jesse Unruh, or Mussolini Alioto.” — Eldridge Cleaver (who incidentally became a Conservative Republican later in life). “An Address on Prisons” delivered at a rally in his honor a few days before he was scheduled to return to jail in 1968.

UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike uses a can of pepper stray on protesting students