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Occupy’s 84-year-old pepper spray victim: Is this the most iconic image of the movement?
Washing Post ^ | 11/16/2011 | Maura Judkis

Posted on 11/17/2011 8:55:38 AM PST by Responsibility2nd

When Occupy marched in downtown Seattle on Tuesday night, a priest, a pregnant teenager and an 84-year-old community activist were doused in pepper spray. Although there have been many striking images of violence and peace in Occupy encampments, and many faces of the movement, none may be as immediately striking as this image of Dorli Rainey, taken by Joshua Trujillo.
Seattle activist Dorli Rainey, 84, reacts after being hit with pepper spray during an Occupy Seattle protest on Nov. 15 at Westlake Park in Seattle. (Joshua Trujillo - AP)

Rainey’s direct gaze at the camera as her face drips with pepper spray is a haunting, cinematic image of brutality, emphasized even more by the chiaroscuro of dark gloved hands holding her head up to lead her to safety. Dashiell Bennett of the Atlantic has speculated that this image may become the defining one of Occupy unrest.

Rainey, a community activist since the ’60s, decided to walk by the protest on her way to a transportation meeting in the Northgate neighborhood of Seattle.


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TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: occupy; pepperspray
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1 posted on 11/17/2011 8:55:40 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd
Too bad there isn't an airlock to send them out of.
I'D LOVE TO DISCUSS THIS FURTHER.
At least on FR you don't have to smell the OWS zombies.
Support FR today.

2 posted on 11/17/2011 8:58:11 AM PST by Darksheare (You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Typical liberal tactics taken straight from the Palestinians. Use the elderly, pregnant women and children as human shields so you can get a good photo op when one of them gets hurt.
3 posted on 11/17/2011 8:58:31 AM PST by apillar
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To: Responsibility2nd

She STILL looks better than Helen Thomas...


4 posted on 11/17/2011 8:59:26 AM PST by WayneS (Comments now include 25 percent more sarcasm for no additional charge...)
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To: Responsibility2nd

No, the guy crapping on the cop car is the iconic image of the movement. Literally.


5 posted on 11/17/2011 8:59:48 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: apillar

no, the police car pooper is their movement’s iconic image.


6 posted on 11/17/2011 8:59:54 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (See ya later, debt inflator ! Gone in 4 (2012))
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To: Responsibility2nd
Hey, at least no one pushed her down the stairs....but that only happens to CONSERVATIVE old ladies...apparently communist old ladies would rather battle the police.
7 posted on 11/17/2011 8:59:59 AM PST by rightwingextremist1776
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To: Responsibility2nd
OWS taking a page out of the Palestinian handbook.
8 posted on 11/17/2011 9:00:13 AM PST by ladyvet ( I would rather have Incitatus then the asses that are in congress today.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

If it was pepper spray, then how are her eyes wide open? Pepper spray causes an involuntary closing of the eyes and the effects last for a very long time.


9 posted on 11/17/2011 9:00:54 AM PST by LukeL (Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
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To: apillar

Sorry, didn’t see your post.


10 posted on 11/17/2011 9:01:06 AM PST by ladyvet ( I would rather have Incitatus then the asses that are in congress today.)
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To: WayneS

LOL.

pepper spray is an aquired taste.


11 posted on 11/17/2011 9:01:10 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (See ya later, debt inflator ! Gone in 4 (2012))
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To: apillar

Why is the hippy beside her holding her ears? Is she suppose to be the “hear no evil” monkey. But seriously, it looks like he’s forcibly turning her head toward the camera so the protestors get their money shot.


12 posted on 11/17/2011 9:01:49 AM PST by apillar
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To: Responsibility2nd

These cops are a bunch of thugs. Union thugs going after commie thugs.


13 posted on 11/17/2011 9:02:17 AM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: Responsibility2nd

She chose to be there and take her chances. So did the pregnant woman.

Anyway, I think people will remember the guy pooping on the police car far longer than this one, no matter how much the media would love otherwise.


14 posted on 11/17/2011 9:02:23 AM PST by proud American in Canada (Go, Herman!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I think the giant pile of trash in New York should be the lasting image of OWS.


15 posted on 11/17/2011 9:02:37 AM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Darksheare

Spray the old bag again! One thing I can assure you. The people that are “helping” her walk couldn’t care less about her.


16 posted on 11/17/2011 9:03:07 AM PST by albie
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To: GeronL

Gaia won’t be pleased.


17 posted on 11/17/2011 9:03:22 AM PST by dfwgator (I stand with Herman Cain.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

pepper spray is an aquired taste.


 
 
Yep. You and Colbert agree.
 
 

Stephen Colbert defends Seattle police, says pepper spray is fun for the whole ...

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - ‎9 hours ago‎
Don't worry, Occupy Seattle. Stephen Colbert assures you that pepper spray is just as good for 80-year-olds as it is for 10-year-olds. Reacting to the Tuesday pepper spraying of Dorli Rainey, 84, and an unidentified pregnant woman, Colbert defended ...


18 posted on 11/17/2011 9:03:27 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
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To: apillar

“Why is the hippy beside her holding her ears? “

...because of the annoying whistle sound.


19 posted on 11/17/2011 9:04:13 AM PST by albie
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To: Responsibility2nd

So damn what?...She made the decision to roll with the garbage so she got taken out with the garbage!...


20 posted on 11/17/2011 9:04:57 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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