[quote=CDMA ENG][quote=no_such_reality]It actually goes further than that. He deployed in riot gear, when directed not to.
He deployed with an unauthorized and unapproved for department use canister of pepper spray that is more powerful and dangerous than the pepper spray authorized for campus police.[/quote]
Ok… that info I did not have and it does make a huge difference in the story…
That being said though the students did disobey orders and should have been spray though by an approved product…
Another two wrongs story…
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I disagree, they should have been arrested as other cops were doing. Tazing, pepper spray, rubber bullets, bean bag rounds are LESS LETHAL not NON-LETHAL. IMHO, the police are way to cavalier about their use.
The protesters were protesting, not resisting arrest. There was no reason to resort to assaulting them and peppering spraying is an assault, really no different than whacking them with a nightstick.
Would you be saying, disobeyed a lawful order and wound up and started smacking them with a baton?(note, for now let’s ignore that ironically, the protesters were actually legally assembled there and UC and Campus Police didn’t have legal ground to disperse them),
If you disobey a lawful order, you should get arrested or detained, not beaten and pepper sprayed.
