Pepper Spray

Catwoman Impersonator Pepper-Sprays Fake Ozzy Osbourne After 'Harassment'

Posted 02.03.2012 | Entertainment

Read More: Video, Cat Woman Jack Sparrow, Catwoman Impersonator, Pepper Spray, Cat Woman, Hollywood Performers, Cat-Woman, Jack Sparrow, Cat Woman Pepper Sprayed, Entertainment News

What happens when Catwoman, an alien and Ozzy Osbourne get into a fight? That's not a joke, but an ongoing only-in-Hollywood news story. It all wen...

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'Outrageous' Brawls At Houston High School Has Parents Calling For Closure

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 01.30.2012 | Education

Read More: Fights at Schools, Video, School Fight, Pepper Spray, School Fights, School Brawl, High School, Fights, High School Fights, Education News

Authorities paid a visit to Dekaney High School in Houston, Tex., after what students called an "outrageous" brawl broke out in the cafeteria, KHOU-TV...

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Tanks on Main Street: The Militarization of Local Police

John W. Whitehead | Posted 01.04.2012 | Crime

Read More: 1033 Program, Police, Pepper Spray, SWAT Team, Militarization, Police Militarization, Police Weaponry, Paramilitary Police, Crime News

The American police force is not supposed to be a branch of the military, nor is it a private security force for the reigning political faction.

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Before Midnight, Occupy Wall Street Activists Retake Zuccotti Park

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 01.02.2012 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Video, New Year's Eve, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Nypd, Twitter, Occupy Wall Street, Pepper Spray, Zuccotti Park, Tents, #Ows, Politics News

"All week! All year! We'll still be here!" "Whose park? Our park!" The chants went up 10, 20, maybe 100 deep shortly before midnight at Zuccott...

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A Holiday Song: All I Want for Christmas Is a Job (2011 Edition)

Spencer Green | Posted 12.23.2011 | Comedy

Read More: Poverty, Wall Street, Money, Work, Economy, Occupy Wall Street, Economic Crisis, Christmas, Pepper Spray, Jobs, Warren Buffett, Joblessness, Barack Obama, Video, Comedy News

Feel free to share it with anyone going through tough times and let's hope we won't have to do another version of this next year.

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Seattle Community Celebrates 85th Birthday Of Most Famous Pepper Spray Victim

Mark Taylor-Canfield | Posted 02.12.2012 | Politics

Read More: Politics News, Seattle Pepper Spray Incident, Dorli Rainey, offthebus2012, Joshua Trujillo, Ows, Pepper Spray, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Seattle, United Methodist Church, Offthebus, Politics News

The octogenarian Seattle activist whose face was seen in news media around the world when police pepper sprayed her during an Occupy Seattle protest l...

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Pepper Sprayed Activist Turns 85

Mark Taylor-Canfield | Posted 02.12.2012 | Politics

Read More: Ows, Seattle Pepper Spray Incident, Activism, Dorli Rainey, Joshua Trujillo, Occupy Wall Street, offthebus2012, Pepper Spray, Keith Olbermann, Occupy Seattle, United Methodist Church, Offthebus, Politics News

Community activists, political campaigners, Occupy Seattle supporters, local church ministers and a Buddhist monk turned out to celebrate the 85th birthday of local activist and Occupy Seattle movement spokesperson Dorli Rainey.

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Campus Police Violence Is Nothing New In California

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 12.09.2011 | College

Read More: Video, Occupy Cal, Uc Chancellor, University of California, Police Violence, Occupy Protesters, Ucla, Occupy Wall Street, Wheeler Hall, Katehi, Robert Birgenau, UC Berkeley, Pepper Spray, Mark Yudof, UC Davis, Brazil Report, California Protests, College News

When students at the University of California, Berkeley, attempted to set up an Occupy Wall Street encampment, campus police answered on Nov. 9 with t...

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No Felony Charges For Accused Walmart pepper-sprayer

AP | Posted 12.09.2011 | Crime

Read More: Pepper Spray, Walmart, Sandi Gibbons, Elizabeth Macias, Mike Fesperman, Wal-Mart, Black Friday, Crime News

LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles woman accused of attacking at least 20 Black Friday shoppers at a Walmart store with pepper spray won't face felony charg...

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Schools Pepper Sprayed Students 'Repeatedly And Regularly'

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.07.2011 | Education

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After a lawsuit was filed last year on behalf of eight high school students against the Birmingham Board of Education over the use of pepper spray aga...

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Occupy Phoenix Update:

Diane D'Angelo | Posted 02.04.2012 | Politics

Read More: Push, Rainbow Coalition, Alec, offthebus2012, Occupy Phoenix, Jesse Jackson, Afl-Cio, Offthebus, American Legislative Exchange Council, Pepper Spray, Politics News

Sunday Dec. 4 marked day 50 of Occupy Phoenix. The movement that many pundits dismissed as the political equivalent of "Seinfeld" i.e., a movement about nothing--scored a triple play of successes this week.

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ANOTHER Pepper Spray Incident At NYC High School, 20 Injured

Posted 12.05.2011 | New York

Read More: Department of Education, Ny News, Pepper Spray, Banana Kelly High School, Fdny, Bronx, New York News, Pepper Spray High School, New York News

A student at a Bronx high school pepper-sprayed about 20 students and the school principal Monday afternoon. It's the third pepper-spraying incident a...

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Why The Government Is Ramping Up The Use Of Force

Radley Balko | Posted 02.04.2012 | Politics

Read More: Uc-Davis, Ows, Drug Raid, Protest, Pepper Spray, Police Militarization, Occupy, Swat Teams, Riot Cops, Drug Violence, Police Violence, Politics News

Outraged by the Occupy crackdowns, some are now calling for a national discussion on the use of force. That's a welcome development, but it's helpful to review how we got here in order to have an honest discussion.

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Pepper Spray Hospitality

Michael W. Waters | Posted 02.04.2012 | Black Voices

Read More: American Consumerism, Black Friday Pepper Spray, Black Friday Shopping, Hospitality, Black Voices Life, Bv-Life, Pepper Spray, Pepper Spraying Cop, Black Voices News

We are a less hospitable nation. Hospitality has been exchanged for a heightened hostility. Let's call it pepper spray hospitality, which is, in fact, no hospitality at all. We are a spray first, ask questions later, kind of society.

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Both Sides Now: Can the Final Three Pass Their 2012 Character 'Stress Tests'?

HuffPost Radio | Posted 12.04.2011 | Politics

Read More: Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Hilary Rosen, John McCain, Gov. Christie, Barney Frank, Joe Klein, Mary Matalin, Super Committee, Charles Krautheimer, Pepper Spray, Barack Obama, Jon Huntsman, George Will, Jeff Zeleny, Rick Perry, Hillary Clinton, Bret Baier, Politics News

Matalin and Rosen debate personal flaws of the Final Three. Obama a loner? Romney a phony? Newt a blowhard with "baggage"?

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Where Does Gov. Jerry Brown Stand On Occupy Wall Street?

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 12.02.2011 | San Francisco

Read More: California, Governor Jerry Brown, Pepper Spray, Occupy Oakland, Jerry Brown Occupy, Occupy Sacramento, Occupy Movement, Robert Cruishank, California Budget, Occupy Berkeley, Jodie Evans, Occupy Wall Street, Jerry Brown, Ted Lieu, UC Davis, California Taxes, San Francisco News

In mid-November, a group of demonstrators aligned with the Occupy movement held a rally outside a Sacramento loft building in an attempt to capture th...

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Project Bugsplat

Robert Koehler | Posted 01.31.2012 | Politics

Read More: Pepper Spray, Native American, Dehumanization, Drones, Pakistan, Occupy Movement, Afghanistan War, Politics News

"Bugsplat" is a term of ultimate disrespect and indifference, and it begins with a state of mind. The global Occupy movement, with its humane and nonviolent core certainty, is tipping the balance. Finally it comes down to this: Occupy consciousness.

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UC Davis Pepper Spray Investigated By Group That Works For Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 12.01.2011 | College

Read More: Linda Katehi, Wall Street Firms, Occupy Cal, Video, University of California, Uc Chancellor, Tuition Hikes, William Bratton, Police Violence, Occupy Wall Street, Pepper Spray, UC Davis, Robert Meister, Occupy Protests, College News

WASHINGTON -- Faculty in the University of California system said this week that the group appointed to lead an investigation into the controversial p...

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Girl Pepper-Sprays Classmates, Sends 9 To Hospital

Posted 11.30.2011 | New York

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A 14-year old girl pepper-sprayed her classmates at a Harlem high school Tuesday, sending 9 students to the hospital. Education officials are inve...

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Girl, 14, Pepper Sprays 9 Kids Into Hospital

Newser.com | David Moye | Posted 11.30.2011 | Weird News

Read More: Weird New York, Accidental Spraying, Dumb Crime, Weird Crime, Harlem Teenager Pepper Sprays, Pepper Spray, Weird News News

Welcome to Pepper Spray Nation. America's newly favorite weapon is making its way from the streets of California to the aisles of Walmart to the count...

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9 Festive Uses for Pepper Spray

Mark Morford | Posted 01.30.2012 | Comedy

Read More: Charlie Sheen, Honda Civic, Lululemon Athletica, Muslims, John Pike, Rick Santorum, Pepper Spray, Bank Bailout, Uc Davis Pepper Spray, Cocaine, Comedy News

Toddlers. Oh, they think they're so cute. They think they're so important, what with claiming to be... what was it again? Right. "The future." I mean, please.

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Editing for Patch in the Wake of Pepper Spray

Justin Cox | Posted 01.28.2012 | Media

Read More: Pepper Spray, Lt-John-Pike, Occupy Uc Davis, Davis Patch, Patch, Occupy Davis, Occupy Wall Street, Video, Media News

I'm the editor of Davis Patch, and although I was not on the receiving end of Lt. Pike's now-famous pepper spraying, the maneuver has made things pretty busy in this town.

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20 Walmart Shoppers Injured In Pepper Spray Incident

AP | By ROBERT JABLON | Posted 01.24.2012 | Crime

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LOS ANGELES -- A woman trying to improve her chance to buy cheap electronics at a Walmart in a wealthy suburb spewed pepper spray on a crowd of shoppe...

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WATCH: Megyn Kelly's Thanksgiving Tips

Posted 11.23.2011 | Comedy

Read More: Erin Gibson, Video, Funny or Die Pepper Spray, Megyn Kelly Erin Gibson, Funny Videos, Megyn Kelly Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving, Pepper Spray, Megyn Kelly, Funny or Die, Funny or Die Megyn Kelly, Uc Davis Pepper Spray, Megyn Kelly Pepper Spray, Comedy News

Ever since Megyn Kelly told Bill O'Reilly on Monday night that the UC-Davis protestors really were doused with a "food product," the Internet has lamb...

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Protests, Police, and Pepper Spray: Nothing to Sneeze At

Tobias Winright | Posted 01.23.2012 | Politics

Read More: Police Brutality, Pepper Spray, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Nonviolent Protest, Uc Davis Pepper Spray, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News

The use of force by police is not at all supposed to involve any notion of punishment or humiliation. Police are supposed to serve and protect all citizens, including those they regrettably have to arrest.

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