"I don't know the events that led up to this confrontation; I would assume the police asked these protestors to leave and they refused. But when law enforcement officials use a weapon, they need to have a good reason for doing so. In this case, the protestors were...just sitting there. And the response to these protestors was to spray them, in the face, with large quantities of pepper spray. As ABL put it, the officer "approached a group of students sitting in a line peacefully on the ground, walked up and down the line and pepper-sprayed them directly in the face — as one would spray pesticide on weeds.""
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Steve Benen, "'As one would spray pesticide on weeds', Washington Monthly (2011)
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