And spraying it randomly at the crowd.
Isn’t she a little short for a stormtrooper?
Look again.
For one thing, it wasn’t much of a crowd. For another thing, you can see just about everyone who is there, and they are all peaceful. The people in the foreground, including Mr. Hagopian, are clearly leaving the area. All of the other officers are calmly manning their bicycle barricade, some unconcernedly turning their backs on the… I can’t call it a 'crowd, as there are too few people there… ‘gathering’. There is exactly one person who is freaking out, and she is the one brandishing a weapon and yelling like a crazy person. No one was approaching her when she attacked.
The officer’s actions are blatantly inappropriate.
Reality?
“Trying to clear?” That’s what you see?
The cops are standing still behind a line of cross-parked bicycles! As for being “hyper-aware” of cops - I guess we should, just like we should be hyper-aware of any mindless animal that needs to be on a leash.
Ouch!
Behind a barricade, you say? Turning their backs just before pepper spray was deployed, you say? Why, that almost sounds like a professionally coordinated crowd control procedure and not just one crazy person freaking out.
Please give your source for claiming that everyone was being completely peaceful before the 15 seconds of video, or that the people visible in the camera’s field of vision constituted the entire crowd.
That is a lunatic hair trigger cop who should be removed from the force right now. If she’s so terrified of a few people milling around and actively walking away from her “Step back! Step back!” she does not have the correct disposition to be a police officer.
Yes, he was walking away from the cops by walking up to and within two feet of the cops while the cops are telling everyone to get back and brandishing pepper spray.
Yes, the reality of him walking up to and within two feet of the cops while the cops are telling everyone to get back and brandishing pepper spray.
Dipshit got what he deserved. Instead of walking away in the opposite direction of the cops he walks up to and within two feet of them. He’s an “activist”. I’d wager money he was playing the “I’m not touching you. I’m not touching you.” game. When he got to the woman instead of going to the right and away from the cops when he wanted to go around her he went left and towards the cops.
Also he deserved getting sprayed just for being on the phone and not paying attention to his surroundings. A few weeks ago I saw an idiot looking down at his phone, probably texting, while he entered a crosswalk, that was not a part of a stop sign or red light, without even looking up. Luckily I was paying attention and he entered from the other side of the road so I had plenty of time to brake for him. As he approached he put his phone in his pocket and then noticed me and looked at me with a retarded look on his face like, “What? Cars drive in the streets? Since when?”
You need to look at the whole picture. You can’t only look at the rabid cop and nothing else, and decide that it was justified. The cops turning their backs are not turning their backs because she’s about to unleash the gas. Look at the ones in the background, and you can see that they are simply unconcerned about the few people who are there.
My source for claiming that everyone was peaceful before the clip? What, you think they were ranting and throwing things, and then everyone said ‘Time out! Everyone stand still! We need to get this shot!’? Or do you mean like three days before? Or perhaps last year?
Unlike you, I watched the entire clip. You know, where the field of view widens and you can see how many people are there. There’s like 40 or 50 people. Or are you counting the entire population of Seattle? There’s a bunch of them, and technically they were all surrounding the cops.
A group of 40 or 50 people surrounding the cops and refusing to disperse, you say?
No, I can’t imagine why they’d go for the pepper spray. No sirree Bob.
It does look to me like people walking down the street.
No, I didn’t say.
There are 40 or 50 people in front of the police line, none of whom appear to be doing anything provocative, and most of whom are just standing around, spread across a line that totals 40 or 50 feet. The cops aren’t surrounded – unless you’re counting the population of Seattle.
Based on the video showing the behaviour of the protesters and all but one cop, I can’t imagine why this woman went for the pepper spray.
I don’t know what it’s like in Olympia, but the scene is very uncrowded for downtown Seattle.
Wow, that one came out of left field. I never would have guessed.
Yes, it was an appropriate day for “Black Lives Matter”.
Oh, I thought they where protesting MLK Day.
If you can’t shoot or pepper spray people, what reason is there to be a cop?
Do you honestly, sincerely believe that this guy was in any way at fault?
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Did he stop ? Did he smile ? Did he kneel ? Did he give the salute ?
Tell us more about the violent anarchists of Seattle.
Snerk.
Put her on desk duty; she has no business interacting with the public.
You get to drive your car fast and shoot guns.
