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[Wreav]

Seems awfully similar to the campus pepper spraying incident a few years back.

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Guy is a teacher, was talking to his mother on the phone, and cops pepper sprayed him for brandishing a possible weapon. He's suing the city for half a mil.

This is the 2nd ridiculous incident I've seen by a female Seattle police officer in the last 2 days. Disturbing trend. If you are too afraid of the public to afford them basic rights, you are unfit for duty, end of story.

 

[Tesseract]

 

[peteykirch]

She looks like she's 4'7

Anyone can look threatening when you're that small.

He's going to get a sweet payday though.

 

[gutter_trash]

Hello mom, do you need anything from the store?
Pepper? Okay got it. Im on it

 

[Futureman]

wow whatta photo. Hopefully he wins his lawsuit so cops start to realize they can't just do whatever they want.

 

[studyguy]

That image is something surreal.

How is everyone in that immediate area not fucking on the ground after that. The spray went fucking EVERYWHERE. Even back at her.

 

[Ingueferroque]

Hope he fucking wins the lawsuit. Fuck.

 

[kmax]

Well, that was unwarranted.

 

[esms]

Well, at least she misused something non-lethal.

 

[Chromax]

I hope he get that half a mil.

 

[Wreav]

That image is something surreal.

How is everyone in that immediate area not fucking on the ground after that. The spray went fucking EVERYWHERE. Even back at her.

Looks like a can of roach killer, to be honest.

I always hope that if I'm an innocent bystander that gets peppered, I can maintain the wherewithall to go "rrrrrrrAAAAAAA-aaaaaid?!"

 

[OricWindstar]

This is the 2nd ridiculous incident I've seen by a female Seattle police officer in the last 2 days. Disturbing trend. If you are too afraid of the public to afford them basic rights, you are unfit for duty, end of story.

Does it really matter that it's a female officer?

 

[Chariot]

Holy shit, that woman is crazy. I think, she didn't even specifically aimed at the teacher, she isn't really looking at him she just spray wild around screaming "STOP IT STOP IT!" Maybe she was on drugs or something.

 

[tbm24]

In highschool a girl in my class had pepper spray in her bag and it started leaking. It KO'd the whole room. I can't imagine what that guy went through getting sprayed directly in the face. I'd be afraid of how loud I'd be screaming and yelling, who knows what liberties they'd take then.

 

[not psycho]

Maybe he was ignoring her. "Hey, I'm talking to you!" *spray*

 

[Septimus Prime]

I was in a club once, where someone on the other side got pepper sprayed. Everyone on my side started to tear up and cough, even though we were some 100 feet away.

I can only imagine how much damage that shit would do, sprayed directly to your face. Police probably have a more potent version than the consumer one, too, I'll bet.

 

[888]

It clearly wasn't from being threatened. She had a wide spray. She was just out of control. Even by the way she was yelling. No other officer was acting like her.

 

[kingkitty]

to be fair, he was walking in a very aggressive, dehumanizing manner.

 

[Angry Grimace]

That cop is getting so fucking fired.

She looks like a fucken lunatic in that video.

 

[Anion]

I hope he is fine and doesn't have any health problems now :/

Hopefully he will win

 

[Wreav]

Maybe her dad was killed by an errant cell phone and she got triggered.

 

[The Adder]

Well, at least she misused something non-lethal.

This is why women shouldn't be cops. We're 2 for 2 now...

A man would have done the job right and shot them dead.

 

[Chariot]

Jesus Christ, the comments under that article. My god, some people are really WEIRD.

 

[lazybones18]

Hello mom, do you need anything from the store?
Pepper? Okay got it. Im on it

that's a good one lol

 

[commedieu]

That cop is getting so fucking fired.

She looks like a fucken lunatic in that video.

 

[frontovik]

That's a very awkward scene.

 

[JBourne]

Someone counsel that woman immediately.

 

[JaggedSac]

Half a mil? Holy hell. I need to start going to protests.

 

[Angry Grimace]

Sure she is.

Surrreeeeeeeee.

In all seriousness, she should probably go to prison. You think I'm joking but I'm not. Officers need to be held to a higher standard when it comes to unprovoked assault, not a lower one.

 

[mr2xxx]

It isn't her fault, she obviously wasn't getting the two weeks of vacation time she was promised and decided to take matters into her own hands.

 

[smokeandmirrors]

Dehumanizing phone call

 

[heliosRAzi]

In highschool a girl in my class had pepper spray in her bag and it started leaking. It KO'd the whole room. I can't imagine what that guy went through getting sprayed directly in the face. I'd be afraid of how loud I'd be screaming and yelling, who knows what liberties they'd take then.

I've been pepper sprayed. It's not pleasant. Clears up the sinuses, though.

 

[kmax]

In all seriousness, she should probably go to prison. You think I'm joking but I'm not. Officers need to be held to higher standard when it comes to unprovoked assault with a weapon.

You're right, but when even killers with a badge gets rewarded with paid vacations, the odds are pretty bleak.

 

[esms]

This is why women shouldn't be cops. We're 2 for 2 now...

A man would have done the job right and shot them dead.

She should move to NYC so she can use those shiny new machine guns.

 

[commedieu]

In all seriousness, she should probably go to prison. You think I'm joking but I'm not. Officers need to be held to a higher standard when it comes to unprovoked assault, not a lower one.

Need to be, sure. But, its a nation wide problem with out of control police having 0 accountability.
And these are just the ones that make threads.

Imagine the 1000's of people that aren't even able to sue.

Lawsuits aren't accountability, when Tax payers are paying.

 

[JDSN]

Black cop next to the girl cop is all like "At least she stopped spraying me"

 

[Seductivpancakes]

She seems way too antsy and all people did was walk by her.

This is the 2nd ridiculous incident I've seen by a female Seattle police officer in the last 2 days. Disturbing trend.

What trend is that?

 

[TS-08]

How can she spray?

 

[Nappuccino]

Holy shit, that woman is crazy. I think, she didn't even specifically aimed at the teacher, she isn't really looking at him she just spray wild around screaming "STOP IT STOP IT!" Maybe she was on drugs or something.

To be fair, she's shouting "Step back."

Not that it adds anything to defend her actual action. edit: she sprays people like 20 feet away and standing still. What the heck.

 

[Seductivpancakes]

Black cop next to the girl cop is all like "At least she stopped spraying me"

looks like he pulled out his night stick. ready to bust the heads of protestors who are probably terrorists.

 

[kirblar]

Does it really matter that it's a female officer?

I think there's a genuine question of whether someone of that size/stature should even be in that sort of position where physicality is a risk at any moment (regardless of gender) and whether that size difference between the officer and the rest of the population is feeding into the overreactions we've seen.

 

[Wreav]

Half a mil? Holy hell. I need to start going to protests.

To be fair, in Seattle that's about 3 months of rent.

I think there's a genuine question of whether someone of that size/stature should even be in that sort of position where physicality is a risk at any moment (regardless of gender) and whether that size difference between the officer and the rest of the population is feeding into the overreactions we've seen.

Ding ding ding

 

[TS-08]

I think there's a genuine question of whether someone of that size/stature should even be in that sort of position where physicality is a risk at any moment (regardless of gender) and whether that size difference between the officer and the rest of the population is feeding into the overreactions we've seen.

But the OP didn't say "small officer."

 

[lednerg]

It wasn't the only incidence of pepper spraying getting out of control that day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ6s-U1dKuk

Look at that guy who's blinded @ 30 seconds in and what they do to him.

 

[Lazyslob]

She looks like she's 4'7

Anyone can look threatening when you're that small.

He's going to get a sweet payday though.

foreal the fuck are they doing hiring people that small?

 

[CrankyJay]

The cop looks the Hans Moleman.

 

[OricWindstar]

I think there's a genuine question of whether someone of that size/stature should even be in that sort of position where physicality is a risk at any moment (regardless of gender) and whether that size difference between the officer and the rest of the population is feeding into the overreactions we've seen.

I agree with the size part, it just seemed sort of place in the OP to say there was a disturbing trend (which, I guess a trend can be two) of this happening with female cops.

 

[Wreav]

I agree with the size part, it just seemed sort of place in the OP to say there was a disturbing trend (which, I guess a trend can be two) of this happening with female cops.

My poorly attempted point was their stature and feeling over threatened because of it, not because of gender inequality.

 

[TheSaddestSort]

It was a preemptive attack lest he turn his dehumanizing stare at her.

 

[Extra Sauce]

Looks like a Photoshop put together for comedic effect.