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    Lt. John Pike with the University of California, Davis police department pepper sprays a line of Occupy Wall Street protestors at the campus on Nov. 18. *Photo: Louise Macabitas*
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    Dorli Rainey, 84, is helped off after being hit with pepper spray during an Occupy Seattle protest on Nov. 15. *Photo: Joshua Trujillo/Seattlepi.com via AP*
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    Police pepper spray Elizabeth Nichols during an Occupy Portland demonstration on Nov. 17. *Photo: Randy L. Rasmussen/The Oregonian*
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    Civil Rights protestors demanding an end to segregation in Birmingham, Alabama's public facilities, are hit with high-pressure firehoses in this photo from 1963. *Photo: Charles Moore/Black Star*
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