You know what is likely to happen at UC Davis after worldwide sound and fury was caused by bumbling university cops shooting brat students with pepper spray? Not much.

My bet is Chancellor Linda Katehi keeps her job, though she lost control of her campus to the point where Jon Stewart likened her to Hitler after UCD officers deployed pepper spray on students on Nov. 18.

There will be endless posturing by UC Davis administrators and big shots at the University of California over how this can never happen again and guidelines for campus police, who would be better served with a course in common sense.

Next week, a hearing at the state Capitol will give legislators who are responsible for jacking up UC tuitions a chance to be outraged while TV cameras are rolling.

This became theater a long time ago.

The campus rally held days after the pepper-spray-gate was not righteous or inspiring.

It was merely about sticking it to Katehi.

Before it began to peter out, the prevailing call was for Katehi's head, which is not exactly a human rights rallying cry.

Meanwhile, yet another video has been making the rounds, claiming to show the other side – that the kids were warned, should have dispersed and were complicit in the incident.

Watch it and see: www.youtube.com/watch.

It shows that some students are too naive for their own good and some campus cops had no clue what they were doing.

Compare UCD cops to Los Angeles police, who masterfully moved many, many more people out of downtown Los Angeles recently in synchronized and peaceful fashion.

Compare UCD cops to Sacramento police, who have not let the Occupy movement become violent.

It's not about whether UCD cops broke the law, because I bet it will be found that they didn't.

Theirs was a failure of tactics. They had none.

What was Katehi's failure? She asserts that cops defied her orders, which is a little better than if they were obeying her orders – but not much better. The chancellor who vowed to raise $1 billion for the campus was, it seems, out of the loop. The cops were talking to someone by radio when their clumsy actions went global – but not her.

That doesn't exactly inspire confidence in her leadership, and it remains to be seen whether this massive pratfall will cost UCD the dollars Katehi was recruited to raise.

It sure seems that some of the UCD cops are the sacrificial lambs here, unless they contradict Katehi's word at some point that they defied her orders.

If that happens, the regal chancellor could be in trouble. If not, Katehi and her administration would do well to embrace some humility for becoming a global punch line.

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