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2011-11-29 Science & Technology

Pepper Spray Used At UC Davis Flying Off Shelves

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Posted by Anonymoose 2011-11-29 08:47|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 People are already calling it "Hippie repellent", and somebody asked if they sell any that is patchouli scented?

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-11-29 08:56|| 2011-11-29 08:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Huh. Black Friday has passed. Are they planning some last minute shopping?

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2011-11-29 10:06|| 2011-11-29 10:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Those "reviews" remind me why I hate the left.

God, what a herd of "original" thinkers they all are.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2011-11-29 10:30|| 2011-11-29 10:30|| Front Page Top

#4 100% effective at stopping horse punchers!

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-11-29 11:34|| 2011-11-29 11:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Judging by the lack of safety equipment of the officers, the number of applications, the post-game interview of one of the protestors whose eyes were a bit bloodshot but otherwise unaffected, and how the camera people were moving closer to the chorus line after application, I think I'll pass on this product for something which works.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-11-29 12:57|| 2011-11-29 12:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Mil-grade CS, for starters.

Posted by mojo 2011-11-29 15:34|| 2011-11-29 15:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Departmental policy doesn't permit use of same against passive resisters. A target has to be actively combatant. Disproportionatality accusations aren't merely rhetorical. The Police Commission will have to move against the sprayer.

Posted by Elmomoting Chemble6777 2011-11-29 17:03|| 2011-11-29 17:03|| Front Page Top

#8 The question is whether the situation can be classed as passive resistance.

Posted by Pappy 2011-11-29 17:30|| 2011-11-29 17:30|| Front Page Top

#9 They need a policy change. In my old dept. pepper spray was authorized if the "passive resistance" threatened the safety of staff and/or others, such as prohibiting entrance or exit to any area.

Posted by OCCD 2011-11-29 18:17|| 2011-11-29 18:17|| Front Page Top

#10 it's a good thing for these useless parasites that King Frank wasn't in charge. Just saying*

* In the unlikely event I become a public figure at some point in the future, it referred to someone else as "King Frank". In the even more unlikely event I was declared King? It was me

Posted by Frank G 2011-11-29 21:04|| 2011-11-29 21:04|| Front Page Top

#11 I thought the writ of Emperor Norton still stood for something through much of the west coast.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-11-29 21:18|| 2011-11-29 21:18|| Front Page Top

#12 I go into more pain when I cut my garden peppers into salsa every September.

Posted by Capsu78 2011-11-29 22:02|| 2011-11-29 22:02|| Front Page Top

#13 Yeah, I've had hot wingz clear a booth with the vapors.

Watching the videos it appears the officers were systematically surrounded by a crowd interlocking their arms. I call it, appropriately, passive-aggressivel opposed to passive resistance, the former being that though not violent in a hurling items sense what happens is a situation is purposefully created which forces violence as a solution. When this circle was completed the officers were essentially detained against their will which is a violent act. If the officers had stayed there until a prisoner exchange was negotiated the mob would have won over order. Credit to the officers (guessing campus PD, never heard for certain) for being professional, patient, deliberate...I mean damn I wish my ball team had that coolness on the free throw line for real.

Remember when those goblins got to beating their drums in WI and chased that lawmaker into the corner, that is the thing about mobs, they are unpredictable, and even if there was enough room to effectively draw sidearms (which they didn't) they would have been swamped, armed only with sticks and paintball guns. That, uhem, pepper spray was a low-level option which allowed both parties to retire with face.

The screaming and such remind me of that scene from Memphis Belle, where the shrapnal hits and cockpit and blows blood and flesh all over the interior, pilot and co-pilot screaming about how bad the other had been hurt, then find out it wasn't blood but tomato soup.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-11-29 22:30|| 2011-11-29 22:30|| Front Page Top

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