Posted on 10/14/2011 8:31:29 PM PDT by quantim
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- San Diego police on Friday used pepper spray to break up a human chain formed by anti-Wall Street demonstrators at a downtown plaza where they've camped for a week.
Police in the early morning began removing about a half-dozen tents after warning demonstrators their personal belongings couldn't stay in the Occupy San Diego camp. Demonstrators can continue protesting without the tents, tarps and tables, authorities said.
One man was arrested before 8 a.m. for interfering with a police officer after he sat down and refused to take away his tent, police Lt. Andra Brown said. After he and his tent were removed, other demonstrators erected another tent and formed a human chain around it.
Shortly before noon, officers pulled apart the protesters and used pepper spray to disperse them.
No one was arrested or injured during that action, assistant Chief Boyd Long said. But protesters said several demonstrators were suffering burning eyes from the pepper spray.
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Get out the rubber bullets and bean bag shot shells.
:)
Got my start out of college in sales. I “feel your pain”.
I've been saying the same thing. I suspect this whole Occupy thing might have an ugly ending.
Soapy water would have been a better weapon. See how they run!
It is what it is. My bills are paid. I drive a nice car. I have a nice place to live. After the Regime in DC takes its cut, I can still put some cash away. Eventually, I hope to make it as a writer and it will all be a fond memory in a couple of years.
The above is one of the many, many reasons I’m a Conservative. I break my back every day for what I have. The very thought that someone I don’t know somehow deserves my money more than I do kills me. It’s like a piece of my soul is ripped away every payday.
I give to charity and I’m glad to do so. I help family members (some of whom I don’t even like) in times of need. When some lousy leftist tells me I’m selfish because I don’t want to particpate in Obamacareless and I don’t want my “wealth spread around”....that’s all I can stand and I can’t stand no more.
Neither is Lysol disinfectant but you know what boys & girls ‘NOBODY CARES!
Lysol is cheaper & has basicly zero collateral damage.
“Pepper spray is not vegan.”
An organically grown scotch bonnet pepper strategically inserted into an appropriate oriface certainly would be. You would definitely want to wear gloves for this.
BTW, Veganism is often a mental illness.
Speaking of unwashed, have you scoped out the Sheila Jackson Lee soundboard?
http://michaelberry.ktrh.com/pages/SheilaJacksonLee.html
Yep.
I was quoting a sign we saw in Zuccotti Park Monday.
We found that one hilarious.
I love the Sheila Jackson-Lee soundboard.
I listen to Michael Berry regularly and frequently go to his site. Michael is teh awesome. There have been a couple of times I've almost driven off the road from laughing at something he's doing.
See Post #51. :-)
Yes but pepper spray is both vegan & green so it is therefore politically correct. 8*>
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