The pepper-spraying cop gets Photoshop justice | Xeni Jardin
The casual way a policeman pepper-sprayed protesting students at UC Davis has caused outrage but also a mocking response
Nature abhors a vacuum, it is said; and the internet abhors unexplained dissonance. When photographs emerged of police lieutenant John Pike pepper-spraying University of California Davis students, it wasn't just the violence in those images that captured the world's attention – it was the surreal juxtaposition of that violence with Pike's oddly casual body language and facial expression.