Did you know that John Pike, the UC Davis police lieutenant pictured above pepper spraying peaceful protesters, makes $110,000 a year after a mandatory 5 percent pay cut?
According to a search of the state employee database at Sacbee.com/statepay, Pike's salary before the cut was $116,454. Considering the UC-wide condemnation he's receiving, including that from “appalled” UC Irvine Chancellor Micheal Drake, Pike had better have banked a lot of that.
Meanwhile, thanks to Anonymous, Pike's other personal information is no longer anonymous. The international hacking group has posted online his home phone, cell number, office number and email address with a video urging pissed-off netizens to flood them all.
By the way, RoboPanda has a most righteous collection of dozens and dozens of photoshops cementing Pike's place in Internet meme history. Besides the one that opened this post, here are three other faves (Click here to collect them all):
And the favorite of the anonymous person who sent me the link, with the suggested caption, ”
Too soon?
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.