John Pike, U.C. Davis Pepper-Spraying Police Officer, Accused Of Anti-Gay Slur In 2003 (VIDEO)

John Pike, California's infamous pepper-spraying police officer, has an anti-gay past, according to reports.

Though he has been twice honored by the University of California, Davis, the lieutenant was also slapped with with a department-wide racial and sexual discrimination lawsuit after "using a profane anti-gay epithet" against a gay police officer in 2003.

As the Daily Mail is reporting, officer Calvin Chang's 2003 discrimination complaint against the university's police chief and the UC Board of Regents alleged he was systematically marginalized by the police force. More specifically, Chang claimed Pike once described him using a profane anti-gay epithet.

The lawsuit eventually ended in a $240,000 settlement in 2008, according to the Associated Press.

After recognizing Pike -- who is now on paid administrative leave -- spraying the "Occupy Davis" protesters, Chang told a local ABC affiliate, “When I saw that, I was as shocked as anybody else, but not surprised when I realized who it was."

Watch the full report below:

Comments

[trueuniverse]

01:19 AM on 11/30/2011

http://www.copblock.org/10507/meet-uc-davis-police-pepper-spraying-officer-john-pike/

all of his personal information, including telephone number, skype, email and home address can be found here.

[Syllogizer]

12:54 PM on 11/29/2011

So now that we have the perp's name, has anyone put his personal information on the Internet yet so that people can visit him at his home in person and tell him what they really think of him?

[gaudeamus]

08:00 PM on 11/28/2011

Is there a pattern emerging here regarding this man's behavior? It seems that he is using his job as a platform for projecting his issues. If he sold tickets at a concession stand, his influence on others would be minimal; but the man's a cop who has the authority to use lethal force against others.

[Norcal2]

12:13 PM on 11/28/2011

Someone at a higher level authorized him to do it.....why not go after them too?

[majesticjkr]

08:22 AM on 11/28/2011

I believe mr pike applyed for two jobs at the same time one in the police force and the other was with pest controll, after he was given two weeks by both future employees to think about his desission he took a vacation to europe which it was then he decided his future,

[Daniel Myers]

04:22 AM on 11/28/2011

Police officer was wrong and protesters were wrong(blocking a public use road.) They both got in trouble. What is the problem?

[CJ1]

11:06 PM on 11/28/2011

If you have to ask, you either need psychological help, or prison.

[Daniel Myers]

12:25 AM on 11/29/2011

Sorry if I don't participate in, or advocate for violence against others. The law will deal with the fact and eventually a jury will likely pass judgement.

[Allosaur2010]

11:01 AM on 12/27/2011

It's a big grassy area. A guy in a wheelchair could have gone around the protestors...who, also, own the place, because their tuition paid for that sidewalk.
The cop had no more right telling them to move than a cop would have telling me to get out of my own front door.

[nomadrdw]

04:27 PM on 11/27/2011

once you start to marginalize any human being it becomes easier and easier to do so with each one.

[dbrett480]

10:49 AM on 11/27/2011

Apparently UC police officers are the only ones in the UC system not allowed to hold controversial beliefs. No one has any problem with hiring professors that deny the Holocaust or were on the FBI's Most Wanted List.

[Darr Sandberg]

03:24 PM on 11/27/2011

There is a difference between holding a belief, and acting on it.

[dbrett480]

04:07 PM on 11/27/2011

How did Pike act on it? Did he only pepper spray gay students?

[nomadrdw]

04:17 PM on 11/27/2011

the professors didn't assault American citizens. on the other hand, deniers of the Holocaust are as out of touch as any other fanatic. on the FBI's wants list, not so much, they also count Mark Emery as public enemy #1 for selling pot seeds.

[dbrett480]

05:29 PM on 11/27/2011

The UC system hired Angela Davis. She was responsible for smuggling weapons to convicts who used them to take a courthouse hostage and murder cops.

[mjcc1987]

07:54 AM on 11/27/2011

I suspect you will find a lot of "anti" in this man's past. I suspect he blames everyone else for his troubles except himself. Most people who hate like this are projecting a profound insecurity

[Foodgrade]

12:34 AM on 11/27/2011

The cop has an anti humanity past, because he never made it into humanity.

[lynettema]

07:44 PM on 11/26/2011

PAID administrative leave?! Why isn't the creep in jail?

[Olethea]

06:49 PM on 11/27/2011

It's probably university policy. And we consider everybody innocent until proven guilty in court. Don't worry, he'll get what's coming to him. More, actually. The university has good cause to make an example of this man.

[bgofca]

07:24 PM on 11/26/2011

he should be fired, not on paid vacation. also, why does the state have money to spend on riot gear for campus police, but have to keep raising the cost of tuition??

[Denise Du Vernay]

01:39 AM on 12/06/2011

Not to mention that his salary is over $100K a year. Disgusting.

[RRuin]

07:37 PM on 11/26/2011

You really think it was professional to soak peaceful protesters, students, with military grade pepper spray? The officer was not in danger. The public was not in danger from the protesters. The public was in danger from the police officer. His bigoted past which required a settlement to be paid is relevant to his character or rather lack of character.

[lynettema]

07:45 PM on 11/26/2011

Just like the Nazis that hosed their victims. Cool as a cucumber.

[Foodgrade]

12:35 AM on 11/27/2011

The only part of his brain that functions is the reptile section.

[onnozol]

03:46 AM on 11/27/2011

Godwin's law.

[majesticjkr]

06:09 PM on 11/26/2011

Maybe he thought the protesters were gay and wanted to blind them, who knows what was going threw his head at the time, you will never know what a cop is thinking untill your being hurt by them, then you know too well, he might have even been pretending in his mind that it was deadly posion he was spraying at them, he might have mental health problems, or maybe he just likes his job

[Skyetrekker]

05:18 PM on 11/26/2011

Sergeant Pepper:

[Foodgrade]

12:36 AM on 11/27/2011

Lonely heart indeed.