[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.

[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. ;-)

[Redcloak]

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

[Hardastarboard]

This is an outrage. The police should have never used pepper on those activists unless they were completely out of ammunition and had lost their batons.

[kittymyrib]

I wonder what those three trials for these morons cost the taxpayers of Humboldt Co. At least they won't be having a fourth trial, now that they've collected their dollar.

[Modernman]

$1 to pepper-spray an environmental activist?

Here's $100. I'm taking the afternoon off of work and going down to Greenpeace headquarters.