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Police occasionally pepper-sprayed students protesting at UC Davis was outraged, but mocking a response

, they say, and dissonance internet inexplicable horror. When pictures emerged of police lieutenant John Pike pepper spray at the University of California Davis students, it was not just violence in the images that captured the attention of the world - was the surreal juxtaposition of violence with the body language of Pike curiously relaxed facial expression.

students this photo with your mind. Forget Pike uniform, saying it's just clothes. Now, instead of a policeman spraying a non-lethal chemical weapon in the throat of a peaceful sit-in 20 years, you may be able to interpret this table as a person walking in a garden spray Weeds. Or maybe your uncle paunchy, mustachioed, with errors in the basement indifference spraying with an insecticide.

One way refers to the dissonance is uncomfortable laughter. And that's what the Internet has made Pike. The "pepper spray police casually" is now a meme, a kind of popular art or a common visual joke that is open to share and re-interpretation by anyone. This particular meme has spread with unusual speed - partly, I suspect, because the subject is as rare as it is boring

Even Kamran, one of the men who developed the pepper spray as a weapon with the FBI in the 1980s, it was difficult to reconcile. "I've never seen an inadequate and inappropriate use of chemicals," said the New York Times Loghman. Loghman And could add "indifferent" to the list of adjectives. I mean, look at the man. He is preparing an imminent attack of the enemy does not move with the tension, as if navigating a hostile environment. He is responsible for administering the punishment, and his face said, ". Meh "

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and pop culture images of the art in which the figures are nice sitting, lying or vulnerable are often seen from another database shenanagins Pike. The grandmother on the festive table will have a little extra pepper in your Thanksgiving turkey. Igor is not safe. Nor are the ladies of Seurat. And forget the U.S. Constitution.