All posts tagged "Pepper Spray"

A Trump administration official went on the defensive Monday after a report that the administration is far outspending previous administrations on chemical weapons — and using them against its own citizens.

Advocates have criticized the administration for its spending and accused ICE agents of using force and chemical weapons, including pepper spray and pepper ball projectiles, on people protesting the administration's immigration policies, according to a Newsweek report.

Compared to previous administrations, the Trump administration's spending on chemical weapons has skyrocketed. ...

The building manager of a Washington D.C. apartment building was captured on video pepper spraying a woman today who had come to his office to complain that residents’ efforts to organize a tenant’s group were being resisted, TV station WUSA9 reported.

Residents of the 1841 Columbia Road apartments have been “fed up” with management after it “routinely shut off the water multiple times,” WUSA9 reported. That prompted them to begin organizing a tenant’s association, which led to the encounter today.

“When tenant Christine Corbin went to the building's office to speak about the issue, she decided to record her interaction with the building manager," according to the report. "I'm not saying you actually did, but if you took the signs down about us forming a tenant association, that's illegal," the woman can be heard saying in a video shared with WUSA9....

Tragic story of another school shooting at Seattle Pacific University, but luckily the damage was clearly limited compared to what it could have been. While the police believe he intended to kill many, many people, he only hit four and only one has died. That is because, as reported, a hero student hall monitor bust in and disarmed the shooter while he was reloading. The Seattle Times reports:

A judge declared a hung-jury mistrial Tuesday in the case of a former southern California police officer who blinded a woman when he fired a blast of pepper spray into her face.

A Missouri man insists he did nothing to deserve being pepper-sprayed and arrested the night his teenage daughter shot herself.

A young Tunisian woman with the topless protest group Femen went on trial Thursday for illegal possession of pepper spray, sparking angry Salafist demonstrators to demand she face stiffer charges under Islamic law.