Pepper-Spray Cop’s Money Troubles: He Is Also the 99%

[LeighAnn]

John A. Pike III, identified as the police officer who pepper-sprayed a line of sitting Occupy movement protesters Friday on the University of California, Davis campus may have more in common with the discontented 99 percent than previously suspected.

Pike, who was placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation into the Nov. 18 incident, last year emerged from a bankruptcy where creditors took possession of his pickup truck, his wedding ring, his barbecue grill, several handguns, and even $265 worth of clothing.

Pike earns more than $110,000 a year as a UC Davis police lieutenant. But federal court records and county mortgage records reveal that Pike and his wife, Erica, borrowed heavily before the 2008 financial crisis, and were left insolvent when the value of their Roseville home declined.

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Creditors took his furniture, his wine refrigerator, his camping equipment, his $3,000 wedding ring, and three handguns valued at $490, bankruptcy records show.

Read more: http://exposingthetruth.info/pepper-spray-cops-money-troubles-he-is-also-the-99/

[msongs]

1. he is on vacation with pay. how bad can that be for him + he is world famous now nt

[rocktivity]

14. Well, there's "fame"

and then there's..."fame"...





:headbang:
rocktivity

[Bluenorthwest]

44. The word is infamous.

nt

[Tom Ripley]

2. But...but...but...he gets to haul big rocks for the Pharaoh!

That makes him feel more special that most of the other slaves

[Lost-in-FL]

3. He might be able to land a gig at Faux News as a...

Police Task Force Contributor. You never know.

[LeighAnn]

6. The new "Joe the Plumber"

[tblue]

20. John the Sprayer.

I was thinking too the he'd become the new Joe the Plumber. But at least Joe didn't hurt anybody.

[Downwinder]

16. Better yet, he could come on every morning (or three times a day)

and serve the talking heads a dose of pepper spray (vegetable extract).

[JoePhilly]

32. Or co-host of a cooking show with Megan Kelly.

[Scuba]

34. I'll never try to steal from you again. LOL.

[JoePhilly]

37. I decided to make this ....

[Scuba]

39. Joe, that's awesome! Deserves much more vis!! Please make it an OP. n/t

[JoePhilly]

47. Done ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2382482

[Scuba]

33. I heard it would be "Cooking with Pike and Megan".

[rrneck]

4. As the robber baron Jay Gould once said

You can always hire one half of the poor to kill the other half.

[Sub Atomic]

5. when his PI first came out, it showed he lived in an apartment.

And not one in the Upper West Side.

[LeftyMom]

9. The UWS is 3,000 miles from The University of California at Davis.

If dude can't live well around here on over a hundred grand a year, he's too stupid to be let outside without a keeper.

[Sub Atomic]

10. We probably just misunderestimated him since he's pre-rich and all.

[LiberalFighter]

21. I have no sympathy for the guy.

I would have to say that those campus police get paid too much. They could save a bundle by reducing their pay and also eliminating buying military equipment.

[LeftyMom]

23. They really do. That's a small fortune by local standards,

and campus cops usually don't have fuck all to do.

[Fridays Child]

7. Here's a link.

http://www.baycitizen.org/occupy-movement/story/pepper-spraying-cop-was-bankrupt/

[Arctic Dave]

8. Three guns valued at 490 dollars?

Sounds like he got robbed twice.

[Kennah]

15. If they were liquidated in the bankruptcy, $490 for three handguns ain't bad

Managed to keep mine when we filed this year, and they were about the only thing of value I knew I could pawn if needed to make money. Sold two handguns to a pawn shop earlier this year for $250.

[The Magistrate]

11. Jesus, Ma'am: A Pissant Without a Pot To Piss In

Here's to more misery for the stinking bastard!

[Tumbulu]

12. Not only that- the students he attacked

had made him dinner that they cooked from food that they had grown on the University farm- the night before!!!!!

What a mean guy. I cannot imagine doing this to someone who had made me dinner no less.

[tblue37]

13. He'll make big bucks in speaking fees from all the Teabagger groups that will lionize him.

If Not-Joe the Not-Plumber is their hero, this guy will be their god!

(My guess is that he was thrilled to have an opportunity to hurt other people to act out some of his stress and anger over his financial difficulties.)

[MannyGoldstein]

17. He's probably mad at the world

Deservedly so.

But he's confused about who the bad guys are.

[Fridays Child]

19. And that means that Fox News' work is done...

...with him, anyway. Fox keeps them ignorant and angry. It's a river of despair out there. Most people are struggling and just too tired to figure out exactly how badly they're being screwed.

[Tesha]

27. Lots of the 99% are(confused about who the bad guys are). (NT)

[Logical]

18. 110,000 is unbelievable for this POS. Most cops are extremely well paid. And teachers get shit.

[B Calm]

42. I make around $53,000.00 a year driving an 18 wheeler 140 THOUSAND MILES

in all kinds of weather and dangers, and this fat low skilled bastard makes 110,000 to pepper spray college kids. .

[safeinOhio]

22. I'm betting he won't be a lieutenant long and

is headed in the other direction than captain.

[LeighAnn]

30. Yep. "Politician"

New hero for the right

[kestrel91316]

24. Anybody who can't survive on $110k, even in CA, has got serious money management issues.

[pansypoo53219]

25. his WINE refrigerator???

he may be 99%, but he lived a 5% credit life.

[kster]

26. If he wants to take himself out of the spotlight, he should tell us who gave him the order

to pepper spray peaceful protestors.

[TorchTheWitch]

28. he is likely the officer that reports said was recently hired

If so, he hasn't been getting that salary for long, and who knows how broke he was before he got the job.

Without question anyone making around $100,000 a year no matter for how long is part of the 99%. Let's not forget that the 1% have MILLIONS and BILLIONS.

[aletier_v]

29. No Media Attention For This

it would only highlight the fact that things are much worse than they'll admit.

I suspected he might have lost his house when someone mentioned he was in an apartment.

[Capitalocracy]

31. Handguns: $490. Wedding ring: $3000.

Getting to pepper spray hippies: Priceless.

[sarcasmo]

35. He will be on dancing with the stars next season.

[n2doc]

36. 110,000 is more than most of the faculty there make

What kind of messed up pay structure is that. Only full profs in science/law/biomed/medical/engineering make more than that.

[Dawson Leery]

38. $110,000 is good money for his job.

Add in the generous benefits and it is clear that these thugs are a drain on the taxpayer.

[dbt]

40. Fuck him three ways:

Deep, severely and several times.

[B Calm]

41. $110,000 a year as a UC Davis police lieutenant and this stupid SOB

had to file bankruptcy. LOL

Why in hell did his superiors promote this dumb bastard to that pay grade? Hell the superiors have to be as stupid as he is. Maybe they should fire the whole police force. . .

[madokie]

43. Now the stupid bastid is taking it out on the OWS protesters

The very people who are trying to get him some relief.
Some people are just stupid as a post and this man is one of them, no doubt.

[blueamy66]

45. His sad life, as he once knew it, is OVER

He won't be able to show his face in public ever again.

dumbass pos

[sendero]

46. LOL...

.. idiot in more ways that one.

This depression is going to wipe out lots of $1000-a-week millionaires, and not one of them has my sympathy, they are right behind the bankers and the regulators in terms of culpability for this mess.