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The roots of the UC-Davis pepper-spraying - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com #ows

The roots of the UC-Davis pepper-spraying - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com:

The roots of the UC-Davis pepper-spraying

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The now-viral video of police officers in their Robocop costumessadistically pepper-spraying peaceful, sitting protesters at UC-Davis (details here) shows a police state in its pure form. It’s easy to be outraged by this incident as though it’s some sort of shocking aberration, but that is exactly what it is not. The Atlantic‘s Garance Franke-Rutaadeptly demonstrates with an assemblage of video how common such excessive police force has been in response to the Occupy protests. Along those lines, there are several points to note about this incident and what it reflects:

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