Occupy Wallstreet

[Chip]

Trust me....spraying those people with OC after multiple warnings isn't police brutality. It isn't anywhere even close.

It's totally unnecessary. Are they really supposed to be the ones escelating the situation?
It's still taking a non-physical situation, and making it physical.
They're stupid. It's exactly the kind of scene the protesters wanted.
Those are the same kind of ass hole cops who taser someone for not showing ID.

No way, your way off. Police have to anticipate a threat, not just react to it. being surrounded by people saying they are not going to let them go, is a threat warranting the appropriate use of force, which in this case is pepper spray.

I can see that.
And I don't want to seem like I feel bad for these morons.
If I was in the crowd, I probably would have pepper sprayed them long before the cops did.

But really, why did they not arrest them? There is no way what they were doing was legal.

It just seems like defnding that, is the start of going to a place where cops can do that before they try to arrest you.
Do you really want cops to be able to say "he looked dangerous, so I resorted to pepper spray or a taser before he did anything"?