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Police attempted to arrest Pitchford, a homeless man. During his arrest police hit him in the head and pepper sprayed him, and Pitchford died of asphyxiation. [108] [109] March 1, 2000 Malcolm Ferguson: 23 New York City, New York: Plainclothes officer Louis Rivera shot and killed Ferguson during a struggle. Prosecutors declined to charge Rivera.
Pepper spray, oleoresin capsicum spray, OC spray, capsaicin spray, or capsicum spray is a lachrymator (tear gas) product containing the compound capsaicin as the active ingredient that irritates the eyes to cause burning and pain sensations, as well as temporary blindness. Its inflammatory effects cause the eyes to close, temporarily taking ...
UC Davis Police, Linda Katehi. The UC Davis pepper spray incident occurred on November 18, 2011, during an Occupy movement demonstration at the University of California, Davis. After asking the protesters to leave several times, university police pepper sprayed a group of student demonstrators as they were seated on a paved path in the campus quad.
The gold medalist recalled the traumatic moment a group of assailants pepper sprayed her and screamed racist slurs before speeding off.
Over 4,500 of those incidents occurred in the first six months of 2021. Sixty four percent of the reported incidents were verbal attacks like the one Lee endured, and 63 percent of all the ...
Reporting from UVA in Charlottesville, VA where peaceful protestors, most of them students, were pepper sprayed and arrested after police broke up their Palestine encampment @USATODAY pic.twitter ...
Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai), [note 1] short for Manchu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment [3]: 198 and the Ishii Unit, [5] was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War ...
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