84-Year-Old Dorli Rainey, Pepper-Sprayed at 'Occupy Seattle'

From: Democracy Now
November 17, 2011
84-Year-Old Dorli Rainey, Pepper-Sprayed at Occupy Seattle, Denounces "Worsening" Police Crackdowns
Police departments across the country are coming under criticism for using excessive force against Occupy Wall Street protesters during the past two months. In Seattle, Mayor Mike McGinn apologized Wednesday, hours after an 84-year-old retired Seattle school teacher named Dorli Rainey was pepper-sprayed in the face during a protest. Photographs of her moments after she was pepper-sprayed went viral, showing the chemical irritant and liquid used to treat it dripping from her chin. According to Occupy Seattle organizers, a priest and a pregnant teenager were also pepper-sprayed Tuesday night. Dorli Rainey joins us from Seattle. "My problem is not only with police brutality," Rainey says. "It's with the progressively getting worse attitude of the police."
JUAN GONZALEZ: Police departments across the country are coming under criticism for using excessive force against Occupy Wall Street protesters over the past two months. In Seattle, Mayor Mike McGinn apologized Wednesday hours after an 84-year-old retired Seattle school teacher named Dorli Rainey was pepper-sprayed in the face during a protest. Photographs of the woman moments after she was pepper-sprayed went viral. One photograph shows the chemical irritant and liquid used to treat it dripping from her chin. According to Occupy Seattle organizers, a priest and a pregnant teenager were also pepper-sprayed that Tuesday night. Seattle police spokesman Jeff Kappel defended the use pepper spray, saying it is, quote, "not age specific. No more dangerous to someone who is 10 or someone who is 80."

AMY GOODMAN: To talk more about what happened, Dorli Rainey is joining us right now from Seattle. She is 84 years old, a longtime Seattle resident and community activist. Dorli was born in Austria, moved to the United States in 1956, after working as a technical translator in the U.S. Army in Europe. She briefly campaigned to run for mayor in Seattle in 2009.

Dorli Rainey, welcome to Democracy Now! Tell us what happened to you, why you were out in the streets, and how you ended up being pepper-sprayed in the face?
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[justagog]

I am British and i would like to applaud the BRAVE ,CIVILIZED UNARMED PROTESTORS for facing THUGS, BULLIES AND COWARDS in police uniform , what disgusting cowards they are .The pepper spraying was uncalled for and disgusting and note how the police had already decided to spray the crowd before it happened notice the use of cycles to act as barriers so the police would not be deprived of their sport of spraying the crowd. WELL DONE TO THE BRAVE PROTESTORS THE WORLD NOTES AND SEES YOUR ACTIONS.

[KaosReigns10]

THANK YOU DEMOCRACY NOW!!

[justagog]

Rodmunch baby your a sick twat with a turd for a brain , pond life like you have no place around decent people , your obviosly a nut job and a pawn of the right wing rob the people brigade .. the one per cent are killing America just as much as anyone else can do Americas democracy is being undermined by the greedy corporations etc who own the Governers and dont give a rats arse about ordinary people apart from ripping them off , bleeding them white and ignoring them.

[FredBrighton]

@DoodWinSauce- You "heard from people"?? That's all it takes for you? Well I have heard from people that John F. Kennedy is alive and living in a back room of the WH. I have heard from people that aliens built the pyramids and bigfoot is a missing link. Before you believe anything you hear from people I suggest you study the rumors, research the information and verify with videos or other objective sources. Don't believe someone just because they agree with your own bigoted views. Verify first!

[JenniferShaalon]

you will be elderly oneday. God have mercy on your soul. for the body will die but the soul lives forever. your torment could last eight lifetimes. ridiculous

[RagnarOdinsson]

@DoodWinSauce I know this, but I have been living near Seattle for a while now an I have heard from people walking by this place that people are shitting in the bushes, in the gutters and even on sidewalks. Bunch of filthy animals.

[DoodWinSauce]

@RagnarOdinsson there are out houses at all occupation sites. lol what weird things you wonder.

[addadd07]

@justagog that just about covers it for me mate1

[RagnarOdinsson]

I wonder if she was shitting in the bushes with the rest of these people?

[justagog]

tomanyasses if you recall the civil rights movement the Government called out the National Guard to protect the people at various stages , this is what is required now to protect people who have the right to peaceful protest from armed bullies called police who lack any respect for the people who pay them. Protesters now need to wear clothing and protection as the police who dont need it are in protective gear while the ones who need it are not, WEAR PROTECTION PROTESTERS stop making it easy .

[tomanyasses]

@justagog we need our army but ball less obama isnt there .

[belltocher]

Don't think the cop was being disrespectful, he 's a cop he has no respect for anyone.