Smash Edo March. Guy Peppersprayed

Watch this guy at the Smash EDO march get peppersprayed by a violent cop for no particular reason other than talking to him.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Smash
• Edo
• Activism
• Anti
• Arms
• Police
• Brutality
• demo
• march
• rally
• brighton
• campaign
• CS
• gas
• pepperspray
• pepper
• spray

[misslieyuk]

Have you ever had pepperspray in your face?

i'm surprised it doesn't blind you, its horrific!

Police have two different sprays, or at least there are two different sprays available, one which is to disperse crowds, where you spray it in the general area and a small bit goes into everyones faces, and one for self defence where you spray it into someones face if they are attacking someone or armed. This officer should have never sprayed it straight into this guys eyes.

[meatswordsman]

Same old story,a few students making sure they do something slightly anarchic that will make absolutely no difference - having a go at plod while at uni.Then eventually they leave and get on with their middle class lives,you being one of them Lia..

[misslieyuk]

What a mature response.

[1Dambell]

answer honestly. what would of happened if the police were not there?

[misslieyuk]

well firstly, remember that i was in no way an organiser of this. And im not actually part of the campaign. I went along to the march because i support the cause, however i have other causes which impact my life a lot more. Im sure if you look in my videos you'll see this.

Anyway, in response to the police question, you saw when we got in, people didnt know what to do. Its the conflict with the police that increases the anger and fighting power. You can clearly see that from when we got into EDO

[dan101uk]

you clearly don't know what you are talking about. the whole point of the captor/pava spray is to affect the eyes so the operator should be aiming for the eyes. if you aim anywhere else it would have no real effect, it doens't affect your breathing like CS does.

Why are you declaring what the officer should or should never be doing when you clearly have no knowledge of the spray itself or the relevant law and crowd control technique???

[Pringles67999]

Your Honour, would it be possible for an unedited copy . He He !!!

[joelwhitaker]

@misslieyuk Reported for misleading Description. That was not police violence at all....Clear violent move towards police which the officer saw as a threat....end result police officer lagally used captor spray.

[joelwhitaker]

@misslieyuk pepperspray is safe for close personal protection and the face is actually an aiming point. that is the point of the spray......it is designed to hurt and semi-blind temporarily. the officer did the right thing

[wiganjoe]

should have used flamethrowers not pepper spray

[EusaMoss]

That guy was not just talking to the police. He was being antagonistic, he was warned and then he got sprayed. Yestersday's protest also had its fair share of adolescents playing "chase me, chase me!" with the police. Unfortunately, a significant and vocal proportion of the crowd were 90% about gettinng their jollies off and 10% about Gaza. They undermine their own cause, which I am sympathetic about but such obviously juvenile behaviour is not going to win the hearts of the public.

[michaelhatton1]

if you look frame by frame (if you can, capture the stream and view it localy for greater time control) then toward the end of the fourth second in a demonstrator clearly reaches out toward a policeperson's face. presumably the speech just after ("keep your hands where ... "?) would have been the back away warning police are obliged to give. there was not enough time for the demonstrator to comply and back away after this warning. i am not impressed by the behaviour of either party.

[CerberusPrime1]

ha ha ha ha ha i hope it fucking stung like a bitch

[kekbur11898]

i hope it hurt.

[robmarriott72]

And all this silly name calling of hippies etc, how childish can you get. People moaning about the traffic was stopped for an hour, big deal. You go on about having my head up my arse?? you are the one whos posted god knows how many times on here spouting your bullshit and then dont expect people to defend themselves, wheres the logic in that?

[robmarriott72]

First of all the pepperspray comment was not directed at you but to wombat twat below and yeah i hope he does get it in the face one day when he feels strongly enough about something to do something about it.

You now say the group has logical objections?? funny cos all you seem to do is slag them off, a little to much for some reason??

I am not even part of smashedo group, ive only ever been to 2 demos with them, what pisses me off is people who keep slagging people off who demonstrate

[dan101uk]

So because I disagree with your point of view you hope I get peppersprayed, "obviously" I must work for EDO and must have a comfortable life while you bravely fight for injustice?

Really mate you're head is so far up your own arse. It is people like you that just want to have a good shout at everyone that give the Smash EDO campaign a bad name which is a shame because although I disagree with them the core of the group have logical objections to EDO which although I disagree with I respect.