When not to use pepper spray, part 2
LA Times caption: 'Authorities are searching for a woman accused of pepper-spraying other shoppers Thursday night at the Wal-Mart in Porter Ranch so that she could grab more discounted merchandise.'
Via the LA Times.
I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving. I also hope you’re all still alive this Black Friday and haven’t been pepper sprayed, shot, or trampled to death.
7 Responses to “When not to use pepper spray, part 2”
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Carmonn says:
I’m still trying to figure out how the pepper sprayer could have gotten away. Pepper spray standoff? Pepper spray hostage taking?
November 25th, 2011 at 11:12 pm EST -
Susan says:
The pepper sprayer melted into the crowd but she turned herself in to police later. She refused to make a statement and was released pending chrges being filed.
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Carmonn says:
Yeah, but she supposedly used pepper spray more than once in different areas of the store and she may have even completed checkout before she left. I could understand her making her escape if she hit once and ran during the confusion, but the way it’s been described it’s hard to fathom.
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Violet Socks says:
Carmonn, I’m imagining that in each group where she unleashed the spray, the people were blinded/distracted while she got away. So they could describe her afterwards, but at the time they were too messed up to keep their eyes on her. Does that make sense?
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Carmonn says:
That part makes sense, it’s not so much the witnesses that I’m confused about, more Wal-Mart’s security cameras and their supposed ability to lock down the stores within 2 minutes and all that.
Maybe they’re too busy monitoring for suspected union activity to overly concern themselves with safety.
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quixote says:
“too busy monitoring for suspected union activity”
That’s shouldn’t be funny, but I’m guffawing in a gallows humor sort of way.
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quixote says:
The current scuttlebutt on the LATimes is that the spraying incidents were “self-defense.”
I could see that … in the same universe were the UCDavis cops used pepper spray because they were “surrounded” and felt “threatened.”
