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[Kuros]

Watch the video.

[jrwhite82]

So according to a CNN article, it sounds like the hours leading up to the pepper spraying a few things had happened.

1) They were notified that overnight camping is prohibited on campus.
2) They were ordered to remove their tents. Most students did.
3) These students were blocking a foot path, not a road for vehicles. From the video, it looked like one could easily walk safely around the protesters, so they weren't endangering traffic safety or impeding emergency vehicles.
4) The students and non-student protesters who were also present were asked to move multiple times but refused peacefully.
5) The police claim they were encircled by the protesters and regular bystanders (people just watching and not even actively protesting) and were unable to leave the situation after they deemed it was unsafe.
6) So they decided to spray a dozen or so students who were sitting on a path on the opposite side of the direction they withdrew from later in the video. Meaning these students weren't the ones even blocking them from their direction of exit.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/19/us/california-pepper-spray/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Not justifiable in my opinion according to this information. I don't know if this is an example of the entire nation of the United States "spiraling out of control" or an example of small group of policemen/women unnecessarily using force. Most Occupy protests have not ended in people getting pepper sprayed or "gently massaged" with batons. So I'm not willing to jump on the "America is going down to the flames of hell in a handbasket bandwagon" yet. But any kind of situation like this is concerning. Taken in the larger picture, every time something like this happens, it is only giving more power to the Occupy movement. Which I think is great.

[Kuros]

[Kuros]

Dramatic Portland Pepper Spray Photo

[Kuros]

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/11/the-cops-we-deserve/248775/

[bucheon bum]

That is one of the more disturbing scenes from the occupy movement I've seen. What the hell was the cop doing?? It's dipshits like him that keep the movement going (for better or worse).

[swinewho]

I wish the police in the UK could do stuff like that!

They spend 80% of their day doing paper work, and the offenders get let off with a slapped wrist anyway-

1. move on please.

2. move on i'm asking you nicely.

3. face full of pepper spray

The cop did do it with some style as well.

[bucheon bum]

[swinewho]

[Kuros]

[bucheon bum]

UCD Chancellor Walking to Her Car

A nice walk of shame! Crappy video quality though.

[bucheon bum]

Eh, a much better video of that walk:

Clear picture

And a short news story about it:

Campus news story

[Steelrails]

In sane times, someone who "occupied" something and was told to leave, refused, and the forcibly ejected would not be a victim.

I mean what if the Tea Party did this? Would we still scream police brutality? Would the right be cheering the police? I think not.

But ignoring ideology and looking at the tactics. If a bunch of "Nazis for David Duke" did that and got pepper sprayed, then we'd say they deserve it.

The police said leave, they didn't have permission to be there in that fashion, and then they refused to leave. Apparently it was at the wrong time or place or in the wrong manner. Their rights met limits there.

Now if there was no order or law for their forcible ejection, then police heads should roll, but if there was...

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