So, let me get this straight, a priest a pregnant woman and an 84 year old woman were “refusing a lawful order to disperse or engaging in assaultive behaviour towards officers” so they got pepper sprayed? Yeah those priests are tricky, and pregnant women… don’t get me started, but the ones you really have to watch out for are the 84 year old ladies, they’re downright nasty, geriatric ninja’s, they sneak up on you and BANG! Before you know it you’re an officer of the law and you’re assaulted, getting carted off to hospital with a case of ASSOL (assaulted by an old lady), your career in tatters, your lung in your pocket. Yeah, never turn your back on an 84 year old lady.
Are they for fooking real??

Horrible stuff, the cops are not doing themselves any favors with this sort of carry on. How could anyone do something like that to an 84 yo lady..

seems that the police feel no shame overthere

They’re following “orders”

What we should be asking is where these orders are coming from and from whom?

Terrible carry-on from the police – what a great lady to be still so active – hope I’ll be as able if I reach her age.

The good police get a bad name because of these power tripping bullies. Shame on them but it is a worrying growing trend around the world.

This is the main problem with these non-lethal weapons. The police will use a tazer or pepper spray much faster than they would beat somebody with a baton. If you look at the pictures on the Seattle Times link above you see the cops just casually pepper spraying into the crowd.

U cannot tar all police with the same brush they r people wev all workd with dickheads aswell as nice people its the law of averages

I would love to read that ‘recent study’ u made up.. Sorry, that was conducted

Err folks this is exactly as described, the police used push bikes to push the protestors and corral them, they began to spray them willy nilly with hand held cannister type CS sprayers. See for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLWvAZC7dwU

Disgusting.

As someone who is totally against these protests i have to say i am shocked at the police behavior in this case. I support the police 100% as a law abiding citizen but to spray an old woman is just abhorrent. I hope she recovers well.

Would also like to hear more about the 2916 rising, what manor of creature was that against?

@neille well said! I would guess the crowd was pepper sprayed and granny in the middle refusing police orders!! Press grabbing!!

well done mister policeman
your a credit to your police force…
i wonder did they kick all those people when they were on the ground …..

@ Neille
Spot on, Congrats on speaking perfect sense and understanding the situation realistically

I loved her comment –” if you screw with us,we multiply”

Regardless of her age, it has been all over the news all over the country for at least a week or more that at almost every “occupy” site there have been troubles and sometimes violence. She willingly went to this protest and clearly had marched with them from their camp site to the intersection in question. It seems you all assume that some police officer, who is most likely half her age and (whether any of you like it or not following orders to clear said intersection) looked this woman in the eye and thought “Oh crap I had better take Granny down before she gets me!”. Accept facts not just knee jerk reactions.

A: In cases such as this the pepper spray is usually dispersed from a water cannon type instrument not a personal pepper spray can, there is no eye contact, the police do not even know who is being hit with the stuff.

B: This woman voluntarily walked to that intersection she was not dragged there by the police just so they could teach her a lesson. If she is so up on the news she knew full well there was a chance of danger and put herself willing in the midst.

C: Those of you calling for the officers to question their orders, really? Really? That is what you want? A police force full of officers who obey the orders they feel like obeying and not the ones they don’t personally like? Talk about a fast track to anarchy.

D: More than half of this so called police harassment is instigated by the protesters in order to keep this farce in the news and to get sympathy. All they had to do was move to the sidewalk out of the street. However, as a group they refused and more than likely goaded more than a few off of the sidewalks onto the streets.

There was a name for these kinda ‘police’ in Germany in the Late 30s/Early 40s…… Fascism has come to America. They protect the mafia on wall street.

All I know is if she were my 84 year old relative I would be furious. I would be in place next to her and support her. Amazing woman.

Ah come on, that’s a LITTLE bit funny!

i for one understood what you were saying, nevermind that character from batman, id love gotham city for himself

The 2916 rising! that typo kind of sums up youre ill informed rant

Like they feel shame here? F**kin scummers either way

BJ get back in your box I was calling the police involved in this incident, and as for Garda Jones, people like him no are exceptional citizens regardless of their occupation

Another example of over the top nonsense and over reaction from the police. They should give them a dose of some common sense salts!

Never going back again, took 10 years from 9/11 to destroy personal rights.
It’s finished, even commentators like Genk Yugur have finally have come go Jessie Ventura’s understanding that there is no democracy in the US anymore, just lobbyist interests and corrupt politicians.
Any event that would threaten these corporate interests must be put down.
Really quite sad, was a great country live in.