[devenblake]

I believe this is the picture that got removed (corroborated by [1]): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Davis_pepper_spray_incide...

According to the associated Wikipedia article, the officer pictured is UC Davis police officer Lt. John Pike, and according to the Reddit comments the picture may have been taken down because UC Davis police officer Lt. John Pike's name was in the post title.

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/o2d4fc/removed_by_red...

[perihelions]

Yes, it is the UC Davis student protest incident [2011].

According to Google's cache and Reddit's stale search cache, the submitted title was "Officer John Pike pepper spraying peaceful protesters at the University of California Davis", which linked to the URI "https://i.redd.it/nz021m4fex571.jpg" (the same photo you've linked).

https://www.google.com/search?q=https://www.reddit.com/r/pic...

[toomuchtodo]

The post has been restored by Reddit, and the Internet Archive has captured the restored post.

Statement from a Reddit rep: https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/o2d4fc/officer_john_p...

/u/redtaboo:

"Hey everyone! We've restored this image and post. The removal was done in error. Neither the image, nor the name of the officer involved are against our content policies.

We're sorry for any confusion caused for users or moderators, but we greatly appreciate the moderators handling of this while we looked into what was happening."

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