Quote: From a legal perspective from what I gathered is that this is still considered a legal use of force based on the face that the protesters were pulling their arms away from the officers when they did try to effect an arrest.

The police officer that was trying to arrest the protester was actually told not to by Officer Pike.

Other points worth noting: This use of force was
A) Not requested by the Chancellor. In fact she asserts that she told them they were not supposed to be removed in violence, only the tents.
B) The use of pepper spray in this incident actually violates the University's use of force policy for campus police.
C) The nonchalant way and the showy way he made of spraying the protester incited most of the outrage.

A lot of other reasons was that the Chief of Police stated that there was no way out of the circle and that they were threatened. In the videos, and from personal accounts, I can state that it was not true. You can see the officers step over the protesters who were not trying to restrict their movement.

It's also ironic that the movement spoke against police brutality. Moreover, to take it more into account of the outrage. Numerous hate crimes have began to occur on campus and there was little to no police activity on this issue.

Similarly it also just contradicted an email the Chancellor had sent out.

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Remix, I don't have a problem with the police, I do have a problem with the way it was carried out in this situation. (That and the fact that I just finished a paper about Abu Ghraib, and other situations where countries allow torture).