Pepper Spray Chronicles

documenting the use of pepper spray by police on the Occupy Wall Street Movement

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St. Louis riot police pepper spray protesters blocking highway

Nov. 25, 2014

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Bettina Hansen ‏@bettinahansen  4m4 minutes agoSeattle, WA

Cops pepper spraying protesters as they try to get on the on ramp approx 9:50 PM #Ferguson #Seattle

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A riot police officer uses a spray against demonstrators during clashes in central Brussels November 6, 2014

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Fun facts about mace: it was invented in Pittsburgh in 1964 by a couple who kept an alligator in the basement. “At first they called it TGASI, for ‘Tear Gas Aerosol Spray Instrument,’ but soon they came up with the catchier name of ‘Chemical Mace’ …  the name implied that chemicals could produce the same incapacitating effect as a medieval mace—a chilling design of spiked club—but without causing the same brutal injuries.”

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Mark wrote in July that Lt John Pike, the UC Davis cop who attained notoriety after he sadistically hosed down seated, peaceful protesters with pepper spray, jetting it directly down their throats and into their eyes, had applied for worker’s comp for the psychiatric injuries resulting...

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Hong Kong, September 27, 2014

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security at Westlake center in Seattle pepper spray & arrest innocent bystander after he's harassed by pro Israel supporter during protest

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Seattle Police direct pepper spray at crowd during May Day protests, Wed., May 1, 2013, in Seattle at Olive and 5th.

  KEN LAMBERT / THE SEATTLE TIMES

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Video frame grab showing the moment when a horse mounted police officer used pepper spray on Occupy Albany members during a clash with police. (Marie Anne Sheehan)

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APD officer Mistric threatens a group on a sidewalk with pepper spray after Occupy Austin got evicted from City Hall on February 3, 2012

Photo by John Anderson

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via twitter

@mfortki Marina Galperina

Made with you in mind, @xeni. "It's a food product, essentially."

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The meme's just keep on coming

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Kimberly A.C. Wilson, The Oregonian. November 21, 2011

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'Images of University of California, Davis, police spraying protesters have made pepper spray a national topic'

Pepper Spray’s Fallout, From Crowd Control to Mocking Images by Katharine Q. Seelye. November 23, 2011

At the University of California, demonstrators gathered to protest police officers' use of the spray on docile protesters. Photo by Paul Sakuma/Associated Press