Originally Posted By DDMAN26 <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/pregnant-teen-elderly-woman-among-pepper-sprayed-113054448.html" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/pregnant...448.html</a> At an Occupy Seattle rally. There's nothing saying that once you reach a certain age or if you are pregnant that you have to stop participating in causes you believe in. However given how in some some some some not all but some Occupy things have escalated out of hand whether it's from the Occupiers themselves or outside entities as long as both knew that things could escalate and get ugly then they certainly had every right to be there. Now of the two I'm a little more perturbed with the pregnant woman only because she's carrying and the potential harm to the baby is something that's to be taken lightly.
Originally Posted By HongKongFoooy she should get no different treatment. not saying to spray her or anyone. in fact they need to stop those sprays and tasers.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< See: victims, blaming the >>> If you're given a lawful order to disperse, or are placed under arrest, you have a duty under the law to comply without violence or resistance. If someone chooses not to do this, and is met with force by the police, I would not characterize them as "victims."
Originally Posted By Dabob2 From the article: "Protest organizers denounced the use of force, saying that police indiscriminately sprayed the chemical irritant at peaceful protesters." In other words, it's quite possible they sprayed people who were not violent nor even resisting. (This is not a given, but neither is it a given that they were doing anything wrong.) Here in NY, there's a cellphone video shown all over the place of a woman sprayed by a cop who was doing nothing wrong, and in fact trying to leave the area but hemmed in by the crowd and so moving too slowly for the cop's liking. The cop's story was that she was resisting, but when the cellphone video came out that showed she clearly was not, the cop was disciplined, and rightly so.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 You said you were "perturbed" with the pregnant woman, seemingly just because she was there. You tried to be careful to say she had the right to be there, but still implied that hey - things happen at protests sometimes so she really shouldn't have been there... essentially blaming the person who got sprayed, rather than the sprayer.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<Well okay I'm mad because she put her unborn child in harms way.>> She does that every single time she steps out of the house, drives a car, walks across a street, etc. So what do you propose? All pregnant stay at home for the duration of their pregnancy, lest they put their fetuses "in harm's way"?
