This is what's going on

[pecunium]

If a picture is worth a thousand words....

Woman being pepper sprayed, for offering a flower

She's not trying to break the line. She is backing up as it goes forward. Then the cop sprays her.

When she's walking away, clearly affected by it, trying to leave; and apparently no longer, "a threat," he hoses her again.

Comments

[glaucon.livejournal.com]

reminds me of the police riot on WTO Wednesday (http://www.black-rose.com/seattle-wto.html).

there was an amazing piece of footage from KIRO-TV (http://www.kirotv.com/index.html) (the only local news station other than the local public affairs c-span type station) that wasn't totally full of shit in their coverage. it showed a local resident of the Capitol Hill neighborhood where the cops were running amok. he looked like just some regular hipster doofus, not even involved in the protests at all. on the tape, he had just walked out of a record store and was carrying a cd or something. along come two cops in full riot gear, kick him in the balls, and proceed to mace him in the face while he's doubled over.

and that kind of shit happened over and over, all over town: to legitimate protesters, to Black Block anarchist agitators, to local neighborhood residents, to news reporters, even to one city council member. they didn't care - it was a police riot. the idea was to intimidate and maybe blow off a little steam after the hard day's law-enforcing on wednesday.

mad props to all who are currently getting or about to be getting gassed in saint paul. way to carry on the fight.