I'm always kinda amazed that people are still shocked by how cruel police are to protesters. Particularly with pepper spray or related products.
People really don't remember the " #PepperSpray8" on here, do they? From 1997: http://www.nopepperspray.org/photos.htm
http://www.haparchive.org/civilliberties.org/win98spray.html
People really don't remember the " #PepperSpray8" on here, do they? From 1997: http://www.nopepperspray.org/photos.htm
http://www.haparchive.org/civilliberties.org/win98spray.html
Or John Pike and Occupy Davis (UC-Davis.) From 2011.
Same shit, different decade. https://twitter.com/_WhatRiot/status/1303567759532371968?s=20
These ghouls are unreformable.
That shit from Eureka has haunted me since I was just graduating high school. Those swabs. Directly applying it to people's eyes. https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Humboldt-County-calls-its-pepper-use-reasonable-3090059.php
From UC-Davis, 2011. Fox's response? "It's a food product, essentially." A masterclass in bootlicking.
Of course, while it's just "a food product, essentially" in the hands of police... "Denzel's bail is the same as the killer of George Floyd" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/protesters-decry-dollar750k-bail-against-man-jailed-on-suspicion-of-pepper-spraying-police-officers/ar-BB18LEdf
From 2011 | "[pepper] spray may not necessarily be an alternative to force, but provides officers with options to use more force – perhaps unnecessarily. In other words, if it is there, they will use it," https://www.wired.com/2011/11/pepper-spray-psychology/
On Tasers, pepper spray and whatever wondrous torture tech we devise for police next: https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/1280313736851533826?s=20
Police Brass themselves in Baltimore were concerned that giving their cops tasers would turn into just another means of torture. https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/1031901852428718080?s=20