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TIL Following the pepper-spraying incident involving peaceful protesters and an overzealous Campus Cop, UC Davis spent at least $175K in an effort to ‘scrub’ the internet of negative posts about the incident, part of their “strategic communications” budget that reached $5.47M in 2015.

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