Kasz216 said:
Rath said:
Walking down a line of passive protestors and spraying them is clearly wrong. Pepper spray, along with other less than lethal weapons, should only be used to subdue aggresive people who are causing danger to themselves or others.
If they were breaking the law with their sit in then the officer could have arrested them, if they aggresively resisted arrest then he could have pepper sprayed them. What he did however, spray them when they were not aggresive, was reprehensible. |
You seem to have missed the part where they already arrested people.
They arrested as many people as they could handle. Which gave them the options of pepperspray or waiting for backup. The second option is how dangerous riots happen.
Pepperspraying was by far the best option available.
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Why would it be so hard to wait for back up? It was not an unruly mob, they were all sitting non violently. They could have simply waited them out. They had officers on both sides of the circle. No one was physically assaulting the cops. I fail to the the only choice of the cops as pepperspraying them. It was a bad move on their part and made them look bad. They could of handled it better, and they should learn from this event on how to handle it better. Not close their eyes to what they did wrong and justify it. It happens learn from it.
