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 Posted: Sat 14:38, 03 Aug 2013 Post subject: Pepper-Spray Brutality at UC Davis_4 |
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| about police training, or lack of it.Update 4: The police are apparently claiming, though I don't have a link at the moment [info here], that the policeman used the spray in self-defense and at a tense moment. Check out this immortal photo if you hear that claim. Now, Brian Nguyen's photos: Update 5: A discussion at Hullabaloo about the chilling calmness of the policeman doing the spraying, and the resemblance of this case to a previous one involving cops who used Q-tips to paint pepper-spray directly onto the eyeballs of environmental activists in Humboldt County, California, in the late 1990s. Thanks to Iris Xie and Lois Quick for these leads. Update 6: Again courtesy of Iris Xie,fitflops online, here is the [preposterous] statement of the UC Davis police chief, Annette Spicuzza, on why the officer "had" to use pepper spray:The students were informed repeatedly ahead of time that if they didn't move, force would be used, she said. [Believable.]"There was no way out of that circle," Spicuzza said. "They |
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