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Seattle cop pepper sprays teacher walking home from MLK Day rally
NY Daily News ^ | January 29, 2015 | Meg Wagner

Posted on 01/30/2015 9:16:46 AM PST by Leaning Right

A Seattle history teacher who was pepper sprayed during a peaceful Martin Luther King Day Jr. rally is suing the cops who allegedly attacked him.

Newly released video showed a Seattle police officer pepper spraying Jesse Hagopian as he walked home from the Jan. 19 rally, his lawyer said.

Hagopian, who teaches history at Seattle's Garfield High School, spoke at the event and was on the phone with his mom when the spray hit his eyes. He was on his way to his 2-year-old son's birthday party, he said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: donutwatch; pepperspray; seattle
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To: af_vet_rr

I’d agree...they aren’t cops any longer. Law enforcement solders might be a better term.


21 posted on 01/30/2015 9:45:09 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Leaning Right

Wow. She’s completely off her meds.


22 posted on 01/30/2015 9:46:09 AM PST by samtheman
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To: Leaning Right

23 posted on 01/30/2015 9:46:40 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

Looks like a Lollipop Kid from Wizard of Oz.


24 posted on 01/30/2015 9:49:13 AM PST by petercooper ("How To Destroy The Country In 6 Short Years" by Barack Obama & the Democrats)
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To: allblues

That warm and fuzzy feeling may be great, but it won’t last when you or a family member are the victim.


25 posted on 01/30/2015 9:50:21 AM PST by Half Vast Conspiracy (!)
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To: Leaning Right

That “cop” is just a product of her environment in leftist Seattle...she’s just getting the citizens of Seattle conditioned to their new “normal”...


26 posted on 01/30/2015 9:52:00 AM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: petercooper
LOL! Smallest cop I've ever seen!


27 posted on 01/30/2015 9:54:50 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

What a picture. It’s all his lawyer is going to need. Check out the male bike cop just ahead and to the left of the history teacher (and the old lady in the scarf next to him that OBVIOUSLY looked like she had an AK under her parka and was about to throw down).

Does that male cop look like he’s worried about the history teacher? The cop to the right of the idiot with the spray gun. She’s totally oblivious.

If you’ve ever been sprayed, you won’t forget it, however the whole ‘painful memory’ thing is very Seattle. Everyone in this town is aggrieved in some way, shape, or fashion.


28 posted on 01/30/2015 9:55:01 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: allblues
He is the epitome of left wing indoctrinators otherwise known as teachers.

I don't care how big a dirtbag he is, that was uncalled for. I'd feel the same even if it was Sharptongue or Jerkson.

29 posted on 01/30/2015 9:56:03 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: smoothsailing

Geez, she looks like a little twerp.


30 posted on 01/30/2015 9:57:56 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Je suis Charlie, you miserable Islamist throwbacks!)
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To: smoothsailing
LOL! Smallest cop I've ever seen!

Remember officer Levitt from Barney Miller?

31 posted on 01/30/2015 9:58:10 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: DoodleDawg

Just trying to figure out what inspired her to do something that stupid.


32 posted on 01/30/2015 9:58:20 AM PST by meatloaf
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity
“What IS it with these female cops in Seattle?”

Seattle is lib ground zero. They are probably putting totally unqualified females in uniform just to meet quotas or to make themselves feel good.

33 posted on 01/30/2015 10:02:10 AM PST by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: M Kehoe

My first thought, too, but it doesn’t look like her. However, she could be of the same...gender persuasion...as the the other one.


34 posted on 01/30/2015 10:05:28 AM PST by tbpiper
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To: Leaning Right

The video don’t show what led up to the spraying, my guess is much more happened before they sniped the tape to cut it out.


35 posted on 01/30/2015 10:07:02 AM PST by Beagle8U (NOTICE : Unattended children will be given Coffee and a Free Puppy.)
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To: smoothsailing

She kept yelling “Get Back” as if she was being bum-rushed. The cop to her left was day-dreaming about what kind of food he was getting for dinner.


36 posted on 01/30/2015 10:10:20 AM PST by petercooper ("How To Destroy The Country In 6 Short Years" by Barack Obama & the Democrats)
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To: meatloaf
Just trying to figure out what inspired her to do something that stupid.

The modern state of law enforcement. They've went from using common sense and realizing that their salaries are paid for by us, to seeing everybody as a potential threat, a warm body that can be pushed around, and/or potential revenue.

The first 4-5 decades of my life, almost all of my personal interactions with law enforcement were positive, with a few being what I call "neutral", which were understandable given the situation. I did encounter racism directed at black service members that were friends of my dad among some redneck cops, along with racism directed at a young black officer that served under me in the 70s, but that was The South, and was the norm.

The last ten or fifteen years, with few exceptions, all of my interactions with law enforcement have been mostly negative. Cops that are obviously fishing, cops that don't respect the 2nd Amendment, cops that don't respect the Constitution in general.

I make it a point to record any interactions I have with law enforcement these days, and I've told my daughters and son to do the same, although he already has a strong distrust of law enforcement. I've changed my travel habits as well, and avoid a state or two when I can.
37 posted on 01/30/2015 10:13:05 AM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: Leaning Right

She’s too fearful to be a cop.


38 posted on 01/30/2015 10:16:30 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: meatloaf

was he a member of the teachers union? or a registered Democrat? I need to know in order to give a shi’ite or not...........


39 posted on 01/30/2015 10:19:12 AM PST by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: Leaning Right

I wonder what was edited from the video?


40 posted on 01/30/2015 10:22:38 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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