Occupy Portland: Woman in pepper spray photo describes experience

[mmonk]

Run time: 01:38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw0OhRjPqKs   Posted on YouTube: November 19, 2011 By YouTube Member: oregoniannews Views on YouTube: 2229   Posted on DU: November 20, 2011 By DU Member: mmonk Views on DU: 1516

 

[mmonk]

1. This is the photo in question:

[Alameda]

2. It's going right into her mouth.

Keep your mouth and eyes shut when being pepper sprayed

[Webster Green]

3. She had no warning.

Thanks for the advice though. :wtf:

[mmonk]

4. Hard to do when starting to question the bad treatment.

When you speak, your mouth opens.

[sabrina 1]

7. You have to be a real psychopath to be able to do that to a

human being, and any man who can do that to a woman, doesn't belong on any police force, anywhere. Makes you wonder how he treats the women in his own life.

Any Mayor of any city now who brings in the cops against the people, is totally irresponsible. It has become more than clear that they are a serious threat to the health and well-being of the American people. They should be kept away from men, women and children and it is clear that serious reform is necessary in our law enforcement agencies before the kill any more people.

[glowing]

5. What kind of messed up question is "Was it worth it?"

Like its her fault the police acted unlawfully while using their pepper spray or even by using their batons and brute force. Was that reporter from Fox News or something? So, now people in the United States, using their 1st amendment right to protest and for free speech, are to expect heavily armed police forces beating them with batons, throwing flash grenades and tear gas into unarmed crowds, to be shot with rubber bullets, and pepper spray to fly without warning and without caution into crowds? Is this what the world is supposed to look up to as that shining city on a hill? Is this what we are showing countries with dictators and army/ police who harm their people?

I was a bit distracted and MSNBC was on in the background with Alex Twitt. So, I was half listening to it and I wasn't actually watching the tv screen. I heard protest, use of force.... so I looked up to see what USA city was attacking protestors today, and I'm not kidding you, it was Richard Engle reporting on the events that transpired in Egypt over the last day or so. That's when you realize just how bad and hypocritical this country has become, or maybe always has been. The romantic ideal of America and the home of the free and brave, is far from just that. The War on Drugs allowed police departments to become militant and act beef up its swat teams and heavier tactical supplies like tanks and shields and helmets, etc. 9/11 allowed for the slide into a true police state and the Patriot Act (which is anything but patriotic and completely unconstitutional) has allowed Homeland Security to act in coordination for attacks. Essentially, spying on Americans and terrorizing the people now.

Honestly, its only a matter of when someone is going to actually be killed by these jackboots, not if. The violence inflicted upon OWS around the country is ratcheting up as the pressure is felt by the politicians from their overlords, the 1%, who are afraid of a United States that follows the constitution and does do more to take care of its people, infrastructure, health, education, and basic infrastructure that is so needed. These 1% are afraid of the next step by the OWS, and that is elections and using the justice system to "squat" on foreclosed properties. Most of us with any time spent on this site has read that many of these banks foreclosing on people and kicking them into the st, have no actual lawful claim to the properties they foreclosed upon. The 1% are afraid, they are squeezing their paid for politicians, and then the politicians are using the militarized police to assault and scare people into going home or not joining into the protests. How many parents would wish their college student child, whom they are paying an arm and a leg for in tuition, to be pepper sprayed and assaulted by the police because they didn't want tents set up on the campus. And yet their overreach is creating more support and creating more attention for the cause.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

6. K&R. Spraying a young woman...

...who poses no threat right in the mouth at close range like that is the criminal act of a cowardly sadistic bully.