Pepper Spray Cop Meme Walks Through Art History The pepper-spray cop from UC Davis, or Lt. John Pike, has become a meme, but not just any meme but one that is walking through art works of every stripe ...

It’s exciting to view the birth of a meme in the wild. Botticelli + Suzette Smith “Hey, I’m Photoshopping Pepper Spraying Cop onto The Birth of Venus, do I leave in his pepper spray can?” Over the ...

Last November's harrowing shot of UC Davis campus police officer Lt. John Pike callously pepper spraying peacefully protesting students has had a wild life as an Internet meme. If any image of the ...

Over the weekend, peaceful student protesters at UC Davis were pepper-sprayed by a campus cop at point-blank range. Video of the incident went viral, prompting widespread outrage. UC Davis put their ...