Pepper spray cop John Pike awarded US$38,000 for his suffering after he doused Occupy students with pepper spray Campus police Lt. John Pike uses pepper spray on Occupy protesters on the school's quad on November 18, 2011. He has since been awarded $US38,000 for his suffering after being flooded with angry emails, texts and letters and placed on leave. Picture: AP/The Enterprise Source: AP A COP who sprayed pepper spray into the faces of a protesters in a video that went viral has been granted $US38,000 ($39,300) compensation for his suffering. Former campus police officer John Pike was seen on the video spraying pepper spray into the faces of a line of peaceful, seated Occupy protesters, who were demonstrating against tuition hikes at the University of California, Davis on November 18, 2011. The video, in which Pike douses the protesters for 15 seconds, as the crowd chants "shame on you." After the YouTube video of the incident went viral, Mr Pike was flooded with emails, text messages and letters, the police union said. On October 16, the University's workers compensation board awarded Mr Pike $US38,055 for "claims of psychiatric injury" or "continuous trauma" from the incident, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Mr Pike was suspended without pay after the incident, He left the campus police force in 2012. The University paid $US1 million to three dozen protesters who Pike sprayed in a federal lawsuit settlement earlier this year, the Chronicle reports.