Tis the season to be

…pepper sprayed??: Twenty people, including children, were injured when a woman at a San Fernando Valley Walmart store used mace against other customers in what authorities referred to as a “competitive shopping” incident. […] Juan Castro, who was at the scene and took cell phone video of the aftermath, told

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Excerpt from UC Davis 2010-2012 General Catalog: pepper spray

From Jay Rosen: UC Davis course catalog, pepper spray edition Applied Biological Systems Technology (College of Agricultural and Environmental Science) 176. Introduction to Pepper Spray. (3) Lecture— 3 hours. Prerequisite: Crowd Control Through Chemicals 122B. Basic uses of pepper spray in threatening, semi-threatening and completely non-threatening and utterly peaceful situations. Common

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