US | pepper spray Pepper-Sprayed UC Students Get $30K Each Davis campus must pay out about $1M total By John Johnson Posted Sep 26, 2012 3:25 PM CDT Copied In this Nov. 18, 2011, file photo, Lt. John Pike of the University of California, Davis, police department uses pepper spray on Occupy UC Davis protesters. (AP Photo/The Enterprise, Wayne Tilcock, File) One of the more notorious incidents of the Occupy movement will result in a payday for the students involved. The University of California will pay $30,000 to each of the 21 students who were methodically pepper-sprayed by a Davis campus cop, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The school also will pay the ACLU $250,000 and work with the group to set up policies on how to handle future demonstrations. The settlement also calls for about $100,000 to be set aside in case more students come forward, reports AP. "I want to make sure that nothing like this happens again," said one of the student plaintiffs. "The university still needs to work to rebuild students' trust, and this settlement is a step in the right direction." If any of the students involved were state residents who lived on campus, the award takes care of about a year's worth of UC Davis costs. Read These Next Updated list of free days at national parks is raising some eyebrows. An incredible hush-hush effort saw 55 cartel bosses brought to the US. South Africa's weekend arrived with a grim start. Sydney Sweeney wants to put that jeans controversy to rest. Report an error