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Somebody tell me this isn't what it looks like.
By Mark A. McCutcheon November 19, 2011 - 2:19pm Comments (5)
Careful, I think you missed a spot. You want to give students exercising their democratic rights a nice even coat.
My friend shared this photo on Facebook with the following commentary:
Police pepper spraying non-violent (and seated!) protesters on a university campus in the U.S. This is the most telling picture yet. To my U.S. friends, please share!
He's spraying them like they're begonias. Wrong wrong wrong.
I would love to learn that this is a Photoshop job. Somebody tell me this isn't what it looks like.
Mark A. McCutcheon
Professor of Literary Studies & Chair of Centre for Humanities, Athabasca U
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It is a very strange time to be researching dystopian narratives.
"We're sorry you made us pepper spray you... jerks."
Dystopia now; guess it wasn't a Photoshop job after all.
This Alternet article shows a video of the incident.
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/736372/video_of_cop_viciously_pepper-spraying_sitting_students_goes_viral/#paragraph5
Hey, look, sometimes Wordpress' Freshly Pressed section doesn't post vapid Life Section D-list crap. Here's something I just found there, the protest organizer's open letter to the UC Davis chancellor -- demanding her resignation.
From what I was reading, these were campus police, not 'police' police.