Off-duty police pepper spray NC shoppers

[Ichingcarpenter]

An off-duty police officer used pepper spray Friday on shoppers at a Walmart in Kinston, N.C., NBC station WITN of Washington, N.C., reported.

Kinston police Sgt. Roland Davis said an off-duty officer the store had hired to help with security during Black Friday shopping used the chemical while trying to make an arrest during a disturbance.

Angel Bunting, who was shopping at the store, said a man fell into a display as people lined up for discounted cell phones. She said she believed it was an accident but security thought there was a fight.

About 20 people, including children, were affected by the pepper spray, she alleged, but that couldn't be confirmed.
In a video of the even posted on YouTube, which you can watch above, people are seen covering their noses and mouths before police handcuff a man

http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/25/9019149-off-duty-police-pepper-spray-nc-shoppers

[provis99]

1. pepper spray was only to be used as an alternative to gunfire.

Was gunfire really warranted in this situation?

Every cop who can't justify the use as an alternative to using his gun should be thrown in prison as a violent offender.

[limpyhobbler]

2. pepper spray cop is the new don't tase me bro

cops are out of control

[Tesha]

3. They've been "out of control" for quite a while but for a long time, it wasn't middle-class white...

...suburban people who were feeling the brunt of the cops' "out
of control" behavior; it was the brown, the young, the dope
smokers, the long-haired, etc.

Tesha

[freshwest]

4. Yup. Equality at last.

:puke: