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UC-Davis Pepper Spray Victims Receive $1 Million Settlement | The students at the University of California at Davis who were brutally pepper sprayed during an Occupy protest last fall receive a $1 million settlement from the university system. The students sued last February, but a settlement was only reached Wednesday, after months of negotiations. The incident gained national attention after one particularly horrifying image went viral online:

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