Bill O'Reilly On UC Davis Pepper Spray: We Shouldn't Second-Guess Police (VIDEO)

Megyn Kelly and Bill O'Reilly discussed the shocking pepper-spray incident that rocked the UC Davis campus on Monday's "O'Reilly Factor."

Kelly called the pepper spray "a food product, essentially," but both wondered whether the particular mix the campus police used to repeatedly spray student protesters had been diluted. "A lot of experts are looking at that and saying, is this the real deal?" Kelly said, though she added that the spray was "obviously abrasive and intrusive."

She then said that it was not clear that the police had overstepped their boundaries, since they were trying to disperse a crowd practicing civil disobedience.

"I know that the tape looks bad," she said. "I agree it looks bad. All I'm saying is from a legal standpoint, I don't know that the cops did anything wrong."

O'Reilly was a tad less nuanced in his comments. "I don't think we have the right to Monday-morning quarterback the police," he said.

Watch (via BuzzFeed):

Comments

[Johnd139]

08:01 PM on 11/27/2011

She will,has,said whatever comes over that piece in her ear

[Marchioness]

04:05 PM on 11/27/2011

Fox news is not news. It's a propaganda machine set up around an entertainment apparatus to cater to our lowest instincts.

[The Contrary]

12:57 PM on 11/27/2011

Re: "Kelly called the pepper spray "a food product, essentially," but both (Megyn Kelly & Bill O'Really wondered whether the particular mix the campus police used to repeatedly spray student protesters had been diluted." (Spoiler alert: Non-factual Speculation = Faux News)

How would they both try this "food product" on them? This's what to expect:

-Instant inflammation of the mucous membranes in your throat and nose
-Swollen of the lining of your throat-not enough to stop you from breathing, but just enough to make it tough to get your fill of air
-Coughing, gagging, and shortness of breath
-Temporarily paralyzes your larynx, making it difficult to speak
-Arterial blood pressure shoots up; blood floods your face, making it appear as if it has been burned
-Normal breathing may not return for another 45 minutes
-It doesn't matter if you're wearing glasses or contacts. When the doped propellant hits your eyes, the capsaicinoids stimulate your primary sensory nerve endings, which compel the nerve terminals to cough up their neuropeptides. Neuropeptides are the molecules neurons use to talk to each other, and when the spray forces them out, they cause inflammation.The pepper can also damage the epithelial cells of the cornea, causing clusters of surface cells to detach. At the same time your eye capillaries dilate, which makes you reflexively jam your eyes shut.

Sound bad? You'll have a chance cry about it. Next come the tears—or rather, the capsicum-induced hypersecretion of water.

[beardown]

08:26 AM on 11/27/2011

Students got what they deserve!!!!

[Marchioness]

04:02 PM on 11/27/2011

uh no

[Johnd139]

08:31 PM on 11/27/2011

Great name .Fits great.

[The Sloop]

10:17 PM on 11/26/2011

Megyn's comments in context are unalarming; the food product thing was a an accurate non-informative description, the rest of her comments were neutral and also gave no information or insight. O'Rielly' however spins wildly in the wrong direction when he says we have no right to look back and critique the actions of the police. If he believed that we had no right to second guess authority he'd quit.

[Oldie]

10:12 PM on 11/26/2011

Kelly thinks pepper spray is a vegetable? She then must think the electric chair is a massage machine. Jeez, what a dork!

[lookingforintegrity]

08:28 PM on 11/26/2011

Fox "news" commentators don't want government intrusion... except when the police state goes on offense for causes they agree with, like stopping OWS protesters. Then, according to Fox, big brother is on!

[gsell44]

05:59 PM on 11/26/2011

So O'Reilly believes we are living in a police state or what?

[jodieez]

10:44 AM on 11/26/2011

They didn't mention that the policeman doing the spraying had some charges leveled against him a couple of years ago. I believe that he is a sadist and really enjoyed what he was doing.

[RobertHenryEller]

03:37 AM on 11/26/2011

The police work for the public. They are not an independent or superior entity. We do entrust them with authority, but we do not relinquish authority. It is in fact our obligation to monitor police activity, and make sure that they are acting appropriately, and within their mandate.

[Calliecat]

11:04 PM on 11/25/2011

Kelley clearly needs to do some legal research. The 9th district court has ruled that using pepper spray on seated non-violent protesters violates their 4th amendment rights. There should be a huge lawsuit and the proceeds should be used to fund further protests.

[Whogivesafox]

08:08 PM on 11/25/2011

O'Reilly is just doing a poor imitation of Howard Cosell.

[The ORF in Largo]

06:05 PM on 11/26/2011

O'Really is poor imitation; no originality

[SalesmanForLife]

04:22 PM on 11/25/2011

I hope they continue to make these kinds of comments because it helps to keep them appealing to the class of audience they deserve.

[JollyBengali]

10:12 PM on 12/04/2011

As opposed to your superior "liberal logic" class. Who has the great honor of deserving such a class as yourself?

[Christopher Buczkowski]

03:01 PM on 11/25/2011

Kelly called the pepper spray "a food product, essentially,"

only in a country where pizza is considered a vegetable...

[jdmn17]

09:34 PM on 11/26/2011

She should put some on her taco and see how it goes over. Food product my foot.

[IHATEFOXNOISE2]

06:52 PM on 11/27/2011

I never heard it called a taco...lol

[Cha Cha 123]

02:55 PM on 11/25/2011

She should be sprayed...with the food product...or maybe her child? If it happened to her shel would have a different take. This is why FOXS News reports zero news.

[Shadow Diver]

06:10 PM on 11/25/2011

What kind of pathetic trash says something like that about a child?

[linnwood]

02:24 PM on 11/26/2011

Every person sprayed that day was someone's child.My son may be twenty five, but he's my child.