Sentences with phrase «pepper sprayed»

At the end of last week, police pepper sprayed members of the Puerto Rican teachers union (FMPR) as they protested against the Fiscal Oversight Board's plan to close nearly another 300 schools, lay off thousands of teachers, cut their pensions, and impose charter schools.

Yesterday, we had a civil disobedience action, which ended in police brutality against all the teachers that were protesting and been pepper sprayed.

Remember when Jared Leto sent his castmates a dead pig because he's, like, so method and Viola Davis almost pepper sprayed his ass?

One character is pepper sprayed and another is hit by a car.

The unknown man is believed to have pepper sprayed the players while they were in the tunnel, thus causing a huge incident that forced play to be halted.

The sheriff's department was still counting the exact number of arrested, Keller said, and planned to release a statement explaining the use of pepper spray by law enforcement.

She owns a knife and pepper spray just in case.

Police used pepper spray to subdue some protesters and a section of a state highway was shut down because of the demonstration, but had since reopened, Keller said.

Around 80 protesters were arrested on Saturday for trespassing and rioting near a pipeline construction site in North Dakota, according to the local sheriff's department, who said pepper spray was used on some demonstrators.

Last year, North Dakota become the first state to make it legal for law enforcement to use drones with «less than lethal» weapons, like stun guns, pepper spray, rubber pullets, and beanbags.

Precincts have started adopting or increasing use of less - than - lethal force — including pepper spray and Tasers — in an effort to reduce injury and death.

Precincts have started adopting or increasing their use of less - than - lethal force — including pepper spray and Tasers — in an effort to reduce injury and death while still giving police options when facing would - be assailants.

Instead, the training is about using precise modern techniques to break up fights among inmates or to extract prisoners from cells, Garcia said, noting that guards frequently storm into those situations five or six at a time and begin using elbows, knees, batons, or pepper spray to force inmates into submission.

«Officers are being written up all the time and charged with using too much pepper spray, yet here we are on Rikers practicing with rubber pellets shooting shotguns,» one ESU officer told the New York Post last month.

This video was filmed during a Black Friday pepper spray incident in Los Angeles in 2011.

This summit — the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit — is not well known in Canada... unless one remembers a certain pepper spray incident in Vancouver in 1997.

If he «seems» to be on bath salts they'll taser and pepper spray him too.

But, where was the pepper spray and rubber bullets?

This from the same woman who, after some young kid was hosed down with pepper spray by a cop, said: «What is the big deal... it is a natural substance!

Protesters, called water protectors, have been faced with rubber bullets, water cannons in freezing temperatures and pepper spray.

But Thomas Jefferson did not know the meaning of 911, video cameras, dead bolt locks, home and car security systems, tasers, pepper sprays, silent alarms, and gps, We don't need assault weapons to keep us safe.

I imagine that a modern Jesus would use pepper spray on those trying to change the focus of the temple from a House Of Prayer, to a place to make a opportunistic business profit.

I completely agree with Tobias Winright, a theological ethicist who used to work in law enforcement, who explains why the use of pepper spray in this situation appears to be excessive:

By now you've probably seen the pictures or video of seated, non-violent protestors at U.C. Davis being doused with pepper spray.

According to news reports, officers reacted with smoke grenades and pepper spray.

A guy with pepper spray: individual manifestations of our generalization Bad Guy / the Man.

Thomas Jefferson did not know the meaning of 911, video cameras, dead bolt locks, home and car security systems, tasers, pepper sprays, silent alarms, and gps, We don't need assault weapons to keep us safe.

The study also brought up questions of the effectiveness of the pepper spray in subduing violent and irrational people.

He urged the Los Angeles Police Department to curtail its use of pepper spray until more research was done.

Before then, the only pepper spray permitted in that state was a diluted anti-animal spray called Dog Shield; however, many different sprays were sold illegally in California and are commonly available.

«It's horrible to be eaten alive by an animal,» said a man who credits a pepper spray with saving his life.

But in most instances, pepper spray works quite well, and it's safer than other methods, including handguns.

Then Jack Birochak, who designs defensive pepper spray canisters, came up with a low - tech launcher that used a bicycle pump and pressurized air to lob a pepper grenade about seventy yards.

The International Association of Chiefs of Police examined twenty - two deaths linked to pepper spray and concluded that the spray was not a factor in any of them.

It was a really nice flight home, minus our pepper spray, which was confiscated.

The FBI report, «Chemical Agent Research, Oleoresin Capsicum» concluded that pepper sprays were effective against intoxicated people, and told the story of a large, intoxicated biker who was successfully disabled.

There have been numerous instances of the improper use of pepper sprays.

Denver police indicated some doubts about pepper spray in 1990.

Yep, the former colonies have educated their former masters about chiles and fiery - foods, but not about pepper spray!

Marijuana and prostitution are legal here and they get after you about pepper spray?»

Imagine if a burglar snuck into your house, tripped the alarm system, and was sprayed with a fiery blast of pepper spray?

Using pepper spray to defend your shrine to all things spicy?

The plaintiffs» attorney cited a lack of training on the part of the staff which caused them to over use the pepper spray instead of employing other intervention methods.

Normally when a cop whips out his pepper spray on a protester, that protester responds by shaking on the ground for a half hour.

In this case, I'm guessing when a cop whips out his pepper spray, the protester whips out his burrito.

Common grade pepper spray is similar to the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion and about twice as hot as the Naga Jolokia (a.k.a. Ghost Pepper) at approximately 2,000,000 Scoville Units.

To give you an idea of how hot that is, commercially available pepper spray hits between 2 and 5.3 million Scoville Units.

There are doubts whether pepper spray will really work against a two - ton bull seal, but it's a possible alternative to shooting aggressive animals that are being driven into dangerous encounters by a lack of other food sources.

Fishermen are first trained in the use of pepper spray to prevent accidental injury.

In Alaska, for instance, it's common to take a can of pepper spray with on walks and other outdoor excursions just in case.