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Pepper Spray Cop / Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop: Image Gallery. UC Davis Pepper Spray Cop Is Now a Meme. Lt. John Pike meme. Lt. John Pike Pepper Sprays His Way Into Art History. Pepper spray students in the face on Friday, and you wake up the face of evil on Saturday.

Lt. John Pike Pepper Sprays His Way Into Art History

Then, the brunt of some clever jokes on Monday. Look! There’s Lieutenant John Pike popping into the famous painting, The Spirit of ’76, and macing a wounded soldier while he’s down. That’s low. Now the symbol of French freedom, Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People. Yes, he eventually desecrates Picasso’s anti-war mural, Guernica, too. A baby seal? More art history fun awaits you at the PepperSprayingCop Tumblr site. H/T Heather and WashPo. Pepper Spraying Cop Becomes Internet Meme, Sprays Famous Works Of Art (PHOTOS)

If you haven't seen it yet, the disturbing footage of a policeman pepper spraying UC Davis students holding a peaceful protest has gone viral and launched a probe into police tactics by the university.

Pepper Spraying Cop Becomes Internet Meme, Sprays Famous Works Of Art (PHOTOS)

It has also launched a wave of internet memes in which the pepper-spraying cop, Lt. John Pike, is photoshopped into various situations; these include some of art history's most famous works, spraying the subjects of the masterpieces. After some initial and anonymous versions, the meme developed with American artist James Alex who put the images on his Tumblr. Refusing to take any sitters lying down, Pike's image casually sprays the people sitting in Manet's 'Luncheon on the Grass,' Seurat's 'A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte', and more. Yet there is more than just play involved in Alex's images, as he explained to NBC:

Breaking: Occupy Lulz/Pepper Spray Cop meme continues to be funny. Pepper spray meme. Pepper spray cop uses excessive force on meme world - National Geek Culture. In the latest example of meme theory in action, an image of a cop pepper-spraying an Occupy Wall Street protester at UC Davis has taken the internet community by storm.

Pepper spray cop uses excessive force on meme world - National Geek Culture

And what does an angry computer savant do when faced with something this patently ridiculous? Spoof it in Photoshop, of course. The officer in question, Lt. John Pike of the UC Davis Police, has been overlayed onto countless famous works of art, as well as scenes from movies, TV shows and other random images (poor Keyboard Cat never saw it coming). Many internet news sites picked up on the snowballing trend, including Wired.com, The Village Voice, and Huffington Post. As Christine Friar of Huffingon Post summed it up, "This guy just doesn't like to see people being happy.

Occupy Art: Pepper Spraying Cop Meme. It's exciting to view the birth of a meme in the wild.

Occupy Art: Pepper Spraying Cop Meme

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 weekend, cool-dude Lieutenant John Pike casually walked past a line of peaceful UC Davis protesters and pepper-sprayed them, one by one, in the face. The internet in response has used her strange vigilante powers to birth a beautiful, thoughtful meme for us all to play with. Sensual, yet casually destructive, Pepper Spraying Cop transcends the actions of Lieutenant John Pike and strides forward, becoming a tool of the free speech that Lieutenant John Pike sought to stifle. FUCK JOHN PIKE - Meme Collection. Pepper Spray Cop / Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop. About Pepper Spray Cop (also known as “Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop”) is a photoshop meme based on a photograph of a police officer offhandedly pepper spraying a group of Occupy protesters at the University of California Davis in November 2011.

Pepper Spray Cop / Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop

Origin UC Davis Occupy Protest On November 18th, 2011, a group of students at the University of California Davis gathered on campus for an Occupy protest, during which they formed a human chain by linking their arms together. When they refused to comply with the police request to leave, UC Davis Police officer Lieutenant John Pike and another officer walked across the the group, administering orange pepper spray straight down the line of unmoving students. Pepper Spray – en. Amazon Users Review Same Type of Pepper Spray Used by UC Davis Cop. Ramblings of an Internet Shut-In ಠ_ಠ. The Guardian. Pepper Spraying Cop Memes. Pepper Spraying Cop Memes UC Davis cop Lt John Pike became an Internet meme after the infamous pepper-spray attack.

Pepper Spraying Cop Memes

Gallery: Pepper-Spray Cop Squirts Internet in the Eye. Clever Photoshop artists have turned the image of a police officer pepper-spraying Occupy Wall Street protesters into a fast-spreading internet meme.

Gallery: Pepper-Spray Cop Squirts Internet in the Eye

Soon after Lt. John Pike was videotaped and photographed pepper-spraying protesters Friday on the University of California at Davis campus, the video of the confrontation went viral and a photo of the incident went up on reddit. UC Davis Pepper spraying cop, Lt. John Pike, makes it into famous art « Motley News. Today, these internet memes of a photoshopped Lt.

UC Davis Pepper spraying cop, Lt. John Pike, makes it into famous art « Motley News

John Pike, now infamously known for openly spraying protesters at UC Davis who were peacefully sitting in a line across the sidewalk, have become viral as he now appears is some very famous artwork, as well as humorous scenes. For more pictures of UC Davis and information, please see my previous posting: UC Davis Photos and Video of pepper spray incident. Are we in a police state? The Pepper Spray Cop Makes His Way into Comic Book History [Humor. By now, most people have seen the video of UC Davis police officer Lt.

The Pepper Spray Cop Makes His Way into Comic Book History [Humor

John Pike shooting pepper spray in the faces of passive, seated student protesters over the weekend; cell phone footage of the incident quickly went viral, transforming Pike not only into an instant symbol of police brutality and a flashpoint for criticisms about how force is used against protesters engaged in peaceful civil disobedience, but also a hilarious Internet meme that mocks the mustachioed policeman. The now-infamous image of Pike — a.k.a. Pepper Spray Cop — deploying his canister has has been inserted into everything from fine art to Disney movies (including The Lion King, which made me ROFLOL). We at ComicsAlliance couldn’t help but wonder what this meme might look like if it manifested at crucial moments in comic book history.

See the ensuing madness of our Photoshops below. Tuesday Must Read: UC Davis Students Confront Chancellor, Demand Her Resignation; Pepper-Spray Scandal Goes Viral. UC Davis Pepper Spraying Cop Is The Internet’s New Favorite Meme. The events that took place on the UC Davis campus a few days ago are pretty hard to watch.

UC Davis Pepper Spraying Cop Is The Internet’s New Favorite Meme

But that doesn’t mean that people haven’t taken a good, hard look at the incident. People have drawn parallels to historical events involving protests – as well as used the brutal video to further the discussion surrounding the state of First Amendment rights in this country. And of course, the internet has decided that it’s perfect meme fodder. How Anonymous emerged to Occupy Wall Street. The John Pike Meme; Rick Wolff Video; EU. (1) The Lt. John Pike (UC Davis pepper-spraying cop) meme: See more pictures of UC Davis Lt. John Pike casually pepper-spraying innocents here and here and here. Find a template to make your own image here. (2) Video of Rick Wolff’s Excellent Talk at #OccupyBoston, November 17, 2011. PEPPER SPRAYING COP. "God. I was just out trying to find a mini mart that was open past 10pm and ran into these friggin’ trigger happy lobsterbacks! Don’t shoot me because I get a hankering for Hostess fruit pies after hours. You know, if Boston wasn’t so stupid about everything shutting down at 10pm this would never be happeningAUUAHHAGGAGGAGAGHGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" "I got back from the fortune teller and she was talking about how in the future stick men are going to fly around in cardboard boxes and talk through their minds.

YEAH RIGHT. Occupy Maced: Police pepper spray unarmed youth, tear tents down. Police pepper spraying and arresting students at UC Davis. Hitler Reacts to Pepper Spray Meme. 'Pepper Spraying Cop' has gone viral in some dubiously outstanding ways. Lt. John Pike has become an overnight world sensation, and probably not in a way he appreciates, after events which unfolded during an Occupy sit-in at the University of California campus on Friday night. An anonymous video taken that afternoon shows the bad lieutenant casually and sweepingly pepper-spraying protesters who are peacefully sitting on the ground. And we are not talking about one of those personal-use, civilian-type pepper spray canisters, either. This one packed a wallop. Umstrittener Einsatz gegen Occupy-Demonstranten - Wie sich das Netz am Pfefferspray-Cop rächt - Digital.

Interview with a pepper-sprayed UC Davis student. Photo:Brian Nguyen/The Aggie. 22-year-old UC Davis student W. (name withheld by request) was one of the students pepper-sprayed at point-blank range Friday by Lt. John Pike while seated on the ground, arms linked and silent. Pepper Spray Cop Becomes an Internet Meme. Lt. Pike pepper-spraying the subject of Andrew Wyeth's painting "Christina's World. " Video of a UC Davis campus cop, Lt. Exzessiver Polizeieinsatz gegen Occupy UC Davis [Update 5]

UC Davis Police Chief Suspended - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National. Arrest Lt. John Pike. Pepper Spray Cop T-Shirt Sold On Etsy With Message Of Peace. Why Do Police Officers Use Pepper Spray? 'Casually pepper spraying cop' meme takes off. Last Supper Painting Protected From Smog With Help of USC Prof (But he Couldn't Save it From Pepper Spray Meme) Click to enlarge On this Thanksgiving week the good folks at USC are doing their part to save Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper" from the ills of modern-day air pollution. (Unfortunately, they couldn't save it from the visual pollution of the above UC Davis-pepper-spray-cop meme).

Constantinos Sioutas, professor of civil and environmental engineering at USC, has designed "air samplers" to ensure that no smog or pollution is affecting the masterpiece that has endured for centuries. The masterwork was threatened by pollution before the Italians decided to do something in 2009, including installing "a sophisticated heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system to protect the painting from the polluted air of Milan," according to USC.

It includes an "airlock-style chamber," the school states. Sioutas was called in to test that system. According to USC a study about the level of air pollution around the painting will be released next month. USC says ... ... The Pepper Spraying Cop Meme. Anonymous Fights Pepper Spray With Personal Information.