They were dispersing in an orderly fashion.
Hahahahahaha!
Nip it! Nip it in the bud!
The cops were standing still, screaming, “Get Back!” and “Stay Back!” The cop waving pepper spray did not verbally define how far away, “back” is. Hipster teacher in the cool hat had a different definition of how far away, “back” is; and thought his definition should prevail.
She then defined her terms with pepper spray. Apparently, “back,” to her, is out of the range of pepper spray. Now he knows. He might have erred on the side of caution but chose not to, and now he’s crying about. How is the cop the bitch?
She overreacted. Nobody was advancing on the cops. They were walking by. Note the lack of concern displayed by all the other officers.
She could have started a riot over that and gotten people killed.
“bitch” is not the word I’m thinking of.
For the people who feel the officer was at all justified in this or was “surrounded” by protesters, look at this still from the video. How can you say she was in imminent danger?
And she “defined her terms with pepper spray?” I think the hipster teacher in the cool hat (:rolleyes:) will define his terms to be the correct ones with the help of $500K.
Does that make them beet cops?
Hahaha. The rest of the cops seem alert, but sorta bored.
“He’s taller than me, TAKE THAT!”
It looks like an ‘anti-protester’ the guy with a sign at the very beginning of the video, had a short conversation with them and sort of just shrugged and walked away. Or perhaps he was being directed to the protest. No way to know.
Bike cops need to prove a point.
A guy can’t wear a hat on cool day?
That old lady got a face full. Look at her with that gangsta knit cap. She was probably talking trash to the cop and the teacher got in the way.
I didn’t see anyone challenging the police line of bicycles. I saw some people walking parallel to the bicycle line. I didn’t see any “protesters” shouting abuse or chanting at the police line. And I saw no provocation for the cop to be using her pepper spray like that.
Who said she was in imminent danger? If the law is that cops must be “in imminent danger to lawfully use pepper spray”, then I admit I am wrong to defend her. However, if the law is that cops may use some version of “reasonable force to gain compliance with a lawful order,” then how wildly and loudly does she have to scream before hipster has to comply?
Here is another video taken from an office building overlooking the incident. According to the Seattle Times, someone from a splinter group knocked an officer off his bike. (I think he’s the body lying in the street or sidewalk.) That’s why the police set up the police barricade and the one officer freaked out and starting to spray into the crowd. I noticed in the video in the OP that she sprays twice more after hitting the guy; one time her spray was just into an empty part of the street. The Seattle Times article says that pepper spray was used six times.
She should work for the TSA. When she goes for the interview all she has to do is point the HR person to this video and she’ll be hired on the spot.
Got a cite or three for that? I mean, there was WTO in 1999, with debate on the *extent *of that, and if I’m not mistaken that was in the last century. I’ve lived in the Seattle area for the past 4.5 years and sheeplely unaware of frequent violent anarchist protests. Please enlighten me to the danger I live in every day. Thanks in advance.
See the above video.
That video definitely gives a bit of a different perspective. This officer was clearly not the only one using the pepper spray; it seems several were spraying at the crowd in general to create the perimeter they wanted. So if anything, there’s bad policy at play here, rather than poor choices by a rogue officer.
I also have the impression now that the officers near her who were looking behind them were making sure there weren’t other protesters in between them and the other group of officers farther back.
We were looking for video of violent protesters, not violent cops.
Do you suppose the officer was assaulted and knocked off his bike by a peaceful protestor?
It was crowded scene, some old grandmother probably bumped him by accident, maybe even because she was shoved by a cop. Of course, I don’t have any evidence of that, kind of like you don’t have any evidence that a violent protester knocked him over. The only evidence you provided showed cops spraying the crowd.
So arrest the guy who knocked him off the bike. The video said they were not cops but security people. This needs more explanation.
Horse crap. The police bicycles clearly indicate the area the police are trying to shield – they’ve made a barrier of them. She sprays him from behind as he’s walking away. The fact that he’s not walking away at a 90 degree angle from the barricade is meaningless semantics. It’s clear on the video she is in the wrong.
And it’s clear from the video that you are not objective about what you’re seeing. That’s got to damage your credibility on this issue. Seriously, you might want to rethink your approach.