Did you forget a sarcasm tag?
Are you saying the guy on the phone, and the nice old lady in the blue scarf in the background of the angry she-elf’s spray gun, deserved to be sprayed here?
Last I checked, the rule was ‘minimum force necessary to compel compliance’.
There is a cop literally directly in front and to the left of the history teacher that wasn’t worried about old lady or history teacher.
Is it your position that walking around a barricade toward the sidewalk while talking on the phone ON A STREET CLOSED TO THROUGH TRAFFIC is cause to be sprayed with bear repellant?
. . . Or were you kidding?
When one lives in Seattle, one needs to pay attention to the thin blue line.
Ever since the 1999 peaceful WTO protests turned in the 40,000 Battle in Seattle riots the cops have been quick to react to any behavior that appears out of sync to them.
They were harshly criticized back then after the mayor and police chief held them back from action. My office was on Fourth Avenue at the time on the block where the police set up their line when things started turning ugly. It was peaceful until rioters gased the street and set trash cans on fire. My building and all office workers were taped in against the gas.
The guy must not be much of a history teacher if he doesn’t understand that one needs to pay attention around the po-pp here in Seattle.