• Wilco@lemmy.zip
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    14 hours ago

    This is assault. Plain and simple.

    No law in existence gives someone the authority to do this. Does everyone get to do this now? Is a lady yelling at you? Chem spray to the face. Baby crying on a plane? Chem spray to the face. Politician giving a speech? Chem spray.

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      4 hours ago

      Qualified immunity doesn’t give them the authority but it gives them the de facto right.

      That’s how they’ve acted for ages now. There examples of people being bound and sat in a row during arrest and a cop walking down the line spraying from 2020. Others from pipeline protests and back to occupy that I’ve heard of.

      Once the they put on the riot gear they act like the blood-thirsty Nazis they are and ignore the legal protections of the protestors.