Pepper-sprayed Humboldt activists awarded $1 each by jury

SFGate ^ | April 28, 2005 | JUSTIN M. NORTON

[DTogo]

PUH-thetic.

[BurbankKarl]

Still the wrong decision....the should have left those protestors chained to the trees until now.

[martin_fierro]

The problem is: To buy a half-decent clue these days'll run ya $1.75.

These plaintiffs will remain clueless.

[Brian328i]

It says they were on private property, is it not legal to shoot trespassers there?

[muawiyah]

So, they protested logging in a community where everybody made their livelihood off of logging.

How is that supposed to be something that would bring out the warm and fuzzies in the local cops?

This bunch of activists are hateful, hurtful people who should have been taken to the countyline and told to not come back.

[MisterRepublican]

Terri "Compost" Slanetz. Decaying organic matter.

[mmercier]

whutup... the coppers no longer use the billy club...?

obviously this a great "victory" for ecofanaticism.

[psychoknk]

they swabbed pepper spray on the eyes

Does that mean that they sprayed them, or did they go up to them with swabs?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Saw the video and the police used incredible restraint during the arrest. This verdict sends the wrong message. So the court is saying protesters have the right to take over any business or office. What's next? Taking over someone's home with the police having no way to remove them.

[Cultural Jihad]

. . . is it not legal to shoot trespassers there?

I believe that by law the use of deadly force must have some sort of justification to it, such as a viable threat to life or limb, rather than merely inconvenience.

Not all lawbreakers deserve summary executions, IMHO. There are higher values involved.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

The police swabbed the trespassers eyes. They didn't use spray. I would have.

[Dan(9698)]

The put some on Q-tips and touched the Q-tip in the corner of their eyes.

[Petronski]

It might have been better (provided the floor was not carpeted) to dump a big bucket of 'outhouse effluent' on the floor, and let it pool.

Or bad clams. Or a spitoon. Or just bring a big box of rotting fish into the room and let it sit.

That's the kind of thing my dad would have done.

[Teflonic]

How much did the lawyers get?

[snowsislander]

The jury only awarded the eight plaintiffs $1 each in the case.

It sounds like inflation: Henry Ford won a libel suit against the Chicago Tribune but the jury only awarded him six cents for damages. ;-)

[Cultural Jihad]

I've seen these types doing their protests in San Francisco, and they are certainly deluded. Someone should have told them that the building they were squatting in was constructed with dead tree carcasses, and their spirits haunt anyone residing inside and bring bad karma.

[vbmoneyspender]

That's the problem, the $1 award will enable the lawyers to get their fees paid in full because their clients 'prevailed'.

[Redcloak]

A dollar won't buy much Humbolt Happy-weed.

[1FASTGLOCK45]

"activists are hateful, hurtful people who should have been taken to the countyline and told to not come back."

--> Can't they just have a little "Logging " accident?