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Pepper Spray Cop will be one of the enduring images of 2011. While most tributes to the man have been simple PhotoShops, though, this piece by Pazero goes to the trouble of being an all-original illustration.
Ken VS Lt John [DeviantArt, via Gamefreaks]
I did watch the video, they were protesting passively. They were taking up a walkway into a building – a building people could still access.
So yeah, let the police have more power and bully people in your lil’ world.
Surrounding police and refusing to let them leave and let them do their job until they adhered to your demands is something you support?
Give up Chazz, as soon as you chuck the word “passive” in there, every man and his dog in the community cant see any form of action acceptable, even though it is!
Id love to see all the people who are flaming the police try and do thier job passively, or even effectively, without the use of these kind of methods and appropriate training.
It’s a sad world we live in when people think that the man doing his job is the bad guy. If they just opened their eyes, and maybe thought a little, they’d stop believing everything the tv tells them.
+1 to the above 3
I don’t get it? they are sitting on the ground, huddled together in a line, cowering away from the police, they weren’t obstructing anything. The cops are walking around freely back and forth, hell if they really wanted to leave or go into the building or whatever they could have just STEPPED OVER the damn protesters and walked away, but they didn’t, instead they got to use their pepper spray which they’ve been itching to use on some commies since they got it.
Nevermind the fact that the cop in question is now suspended for NOT following protocol and using excessive force. So if his superiors and not just the media are outraged at his actions clearly he was in the wrong.
Man I work with police every day and usually they do a great job. People should be able to protest. As soon as one protester gets violent – break that shit up, scale up the force, i’m with it 100%. But a bunch of hippies peacefully protesting doesn’t deserve force.
You see this shit in the media because it’s outrageous.
I’ve seen far more terrifying mobs whilst on the job and the Australian police have handled it far better than what happened in that peaceful, nonviolent, mildly irritating protest.
If you were blocking my path.
1. “please get out of my way’
2. ‘Get out of my way’
3. ‘Get the FUCK out of my way’
4. Use any possible means to get you out of my way.
My rising temper as displayed above might not be necessary, but I assure you, persistence of not listening to my warnings will proceed to point number 4.
If you felt threatened what would you do?
Enjoy living in your police state fellas. Did you know that the US just started using predator UAV drones to spy on civilians?
Woops. I’m wrong about my last statement. They didn’t spy on people, they were used to search for suspects.
Pepper Spray SHOULD only be used on on Violent people, NOT peaceful protesters, it takes real patients not retaliating against the police. So you guys who think the police did there job. One of the owners who developed the original spray or tear gas(cant remember which one) does not agree with the police and in fact condemned what happened.
Here: http://www.democracynow.org/2011/11/29/pepper_spray_creator_decries_use_of
Do your research guys!
Chuck the words ‘peaceful’, ‘passive’ in doesn’t excuse it. The protestors were breaking the law. Simple. They were given ample warning, which they ignored. What else are the police supposed to do? They can’t stand there asking nicely repeatedly. At the end of the day, the guy was doing his job, and cries against ‘the man’ or touting ‘human rights’ is a knee-jerk emotional response that makes no sense.
Sitting down and refusing to move like a tanty child won’t get anything done. Defy capitalism by refusing to buy the latest mobile phone. Turn off your TV. Protest with your wallet. If it’s about the environment, raise awareness. Walk to work. Car pool. Recycle. These are all far more constructive alternatives to just basically being a public nuisance.
The right to protest is not in dispute, merely how these people chose to do it.
Good to see some people are actually in touch with common sense and logic. The rest of you defending the “peaceful” protestors? What’s next? Defending Nazi rallies? You’re defending people who are beyond all doubt breaking the law. There is no grey area about it. Those people broke the law plain and simple. The very fact they were only sprayed and not all arrested is a generous act from the police considering these are people who are nothing but a detriment to society in every single way.
People need a licence for a pet but anyone can have kids…what a world we live in.
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