There’s nothing really funny about any of this, of course, but there are some ingenious (and in some cases quite disturbing) images over at Occupy Lulz (via BoingBoing) that — as with these images exploiting and propagating the immediate iconicity of UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike — testify to the central role of imaging technologies and social media in the phenomenon that is #Occupy.
Here’s a tumblr blog devoted to “Pepper Spraying Cop”: http://peppersprayingcop.tumblr.com/
Here’s Know Your Meme’s page on “Pepper Spray Cop / Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop”: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pepper-spray-cop-casually-pepper-spray-everything-cop
And here’s their image gallery, with more pictures than you could (or would want to) imagine: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/casually-pepper-spray-everything-cop/photos