Difference between revisions of "2020/10/31/pepper spray incident"
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** News & Observer: [https://web.archive.org/web/20201031234835/https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article246861942.html Police use pepper-spray on protesters – including children – marching to Alamance polls] | ** News & Observer: [https://web.archive.org/web/20201031234835/https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article246861942.html Police use pepper-spray on protesters – including children – marching to Alamance polls] | ||
** Twitter Events: [https://twitter.com/i/events/1322671978474401792 Police and protesters tell different stories about law enforcement’s use of pepper spray on a crowd marching to the polls in North Carolina] | ** Twitter Events: [https://twitter.com/i/events/1322671978474401792 Police and protesters tell different stories about law enforcement’s use of pepper spray on a crowd marching to the polls in North Carolina] | ||
| + | ** Washington Post: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/31/graham-nc-police-voter-march/ N.C. police arrest at least 8, spray ‘pepper-based vapor’ to disperse voter turnout march that included kids] | ||
Revision as of 22:31, 2 November 2020
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"A group of protesters marching to a polling station in Graham, North Carolina, were pepper-sprayed by police shortly after taking a moment of silence for the death of George Floyd. Protesters say that the police had ushered them up to that point and gave them confusing instructions before pepper-spraying the crowd, which included children."
The police apparently warned the protesters to leave the area before they began pepper-spraying; city officials have inexplicably cited this in defense of the police, and have avoided the question of why the police began spraying immediately after giving the warning, rather than giving the crowd some time to start moving -- much less discussing why pepper spray was needed in the first place.
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- 2020-10-31
- WRAL News: Police pepper spray crowd during march to polls in front of Graham Confederate statue (tweet)
- News & Observer: Police use pepper-spray on protesters – including children – marching to Alamance polls
- Twitter Events: Police and protesters tell different stories about law enforcement’s use of pepper spray on a crowd marching to the polls in North Carolina
- Washington Post: N.C. police arrest at least 8, spray ‘pepper-based vapor’ to disperse voter turnout march that included kids