Pregnant woman pepper sprayed at Occupy Seattle(And 84 yr old woman)

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CBS News/AP

(AP) SEATTLE - A downtown march and rally in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement turned briefly chaotic as police scattered a crowd of rowdy protesters — including a pregnant 19-year-old and an 84-year-old activist — with blasts of pepper spray.

Protest organizers denounced the use of force, saying that police indiscriminately sprayed the chemical irritant at peaceful protesters.

The Occupy Seattle movement released a written statement late Tuesday expressing support for "a 4-foot 10-inch, 84-year-old woman, a priest and a pregnant woman who as of this writing is still in the hospital."

Seattle police spokesman Jeff Kappel said he didn't have specifics on the Rainey incident, but he said pepper spray is "is not age specific. No more dangerous to someone who is 10 or someone who is 80."



Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57325688/pregnant-woman-pepper-sprayed-at-occupy-seattle/?tag=stack

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Seattle activist Dorli Rainey, 84, reacts after being hit with pepper spray during an Occupy Seattle protest, Nov. 15, 2011 at Westlake Park in Seattle. (AP)


Seattle Police officers deploy pepper spray into a crowd during an Occupy Seattle protest, Nov. 15, 2011 at Westlake Park in Seattle.
(Credit: AP)

Disgusting bastards!

[Tippy]

1. K&R

[Vincardog]

2. This is what a Police State looks like. Are you pragmatists chasing the meaningless middle happy?

When will it be bad enough for y'all to stand up and say enough?

[zalinda]

3. Never, they believe in the Obama. n/t

[Vincardog]

4. Which Obama? The one who was going to get us out of NAFTA or the one who got into the same shit

with Korea? The one who was going to "begin the healing of the earth" or the one who can't wait to begin FRACKING the Delaware?
The one who was going to end the illegal Iraq invasion or the one who let it drag out on the aWoL schedule?
.... Pot ..... GITMO ... Presidential ordered murders without judicial review?

[Uncle Joe]

5. Bullshit on both counts.

Seattle police spokesman Jeff Kappel said he didn't have specifics on the Rainey incident, but he said pepper spray is "is not age specific. No more dangerous to someone who is 10 or someone who is 80."


He added, that if it were harmful, "we probably wouldn't be using pepper spray if that was the case."

Thanks for the thread, RamboLiberal.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

6. NOT IN MY NAME!!!

Fuck that shit!! :mad: I am so angry I can hardly type. That picture and this story needs to be up on everyones FB page -- THIS is what a police state looks like and it is happening here, happening right now people.

And we have Federal Justice System that is actively enabling this.

FUCK. THAT. SHIT.

[RueVoltaire]

7. Keep it up SPD...

you just might wake Seattle to action!
:sarcasm:

[Missy Vixen]

8. Nice to know Mr. Kappel has a medical degree along with his badge

Tasers were considered "safe" as well, till people started dying after being tased due to undiagnosed heart conditions.

In the meantime, the SPD should pray the pregnant woman and her baby sustain no lasting damage as a result of last night's attack.

Be sure and call Seattle Police Department headquarters today to register your disapproval of their actions.

[phone]

[freshwest]

9. DORLI RAINEY'S OWN WORDS DESCRIBING THE EVENT from the local paper, The Stranger:

Dorli Rainey, 84, Pepper Sprayed by SPD at Occupy Seattle Protest
Posted by Dominic Holden on Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:37 PM

Seattlepi.com has the unbelievable photo (although this is already shown in the OP it is part of this brief story):

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/gallery/Occupy-Seattle-Protests-11-15-11-32102/photo-1758708.php

'Dorli Rainey, a longtime liberal activist who moved here from Austria in 1956, also sent us this email explaining how it happened:

"Something funny happened on my way to a transportation meeting in Northgate. As I got off the bus at 3rd and Pine I heard helicopters above. Knowing that the problems of New York would certainly precipitate action by Occupy Seattle, I thought I better check it out. Especially since only yesterday the City Government made a grandiose gesture to protect free speech.

Well free speech does have its limits as I found out as the cops shoved their bicycles into the crowd and simultaneously pepper sprayed the so captured protesters. If it had not been for my Hero (Iraq Vet Caleb) I would have been down on the ground and trampled. This is what democracy looks like. It certainly left an impression on the people who rode the No. 1 bus home with me.

In the women's movement there were signs which said: "Screw us and we multiply.""

Ms. Rainey, you are a civic treasure.'

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/11/15/dorli-rainey-84-pepper-sprayed-by-spd-at-occupy-seattle-protest