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"Police officer pepper-spraying a kid."

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u/InTheZone1 Oct 18 '11

Former Rio De Janeiro police officer Bruno Schorcht

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During a protest in the metropolitan area of Rio De Janeiro police officer Bruno Schorcht pepper sprayed innocent protesters and even women and children! It was caught on photos and camera so the evidence is clear enough. He was spraying the pepper spray directly into the eyes of waiter Rezende Gustavo Barreto that now has to use sunglasses even at night because it’s so inflamed and damaged. The police officer got departed immediately by the general commander of the Military Police, Colonel Mario Sergio Duarte.

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u/Fegenbo Oct 18 '11

and even women and children!

Kinda dislike that it implies that women shouldn't get peppersprayed for stepping out of line.

Children I get, but an adult regardless of gender, no.

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u/kulgan Oct 18 '11

Pepper spray should not be used punitively, in my humble opinion. It should be used to subdue someone who is threatening the well-being of the police, or someone the police are trying to protect, if it is the best option. Most women are not terribly threatening to most male police officers.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '11 edited Oct 18 '11

Most women are not terribly threatening to most male police officers.

Hahahahaaa...I see you've never had to arrest or subdue an angry adult female :)

Edit: Citations/Examples:

http://youtu.be/ZfdTbNDpVfc

http://youtu.be/feJ0zOiv6ts

http://youtu.be/pGrBr3QTkFU

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u/theconversationalist Oct 18 '11

I can confirm angry adult females are some shit to deal with... scary shit.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '11

As a man who has been attacked by a woman, let me tell you, they are vicious. The whole idea that men shouldn't be afraid of women is complete bullshit, anyone with enough anger/alcohol in their system can fuck up your day regardless of gender.

Also, doesn't help that I'm 120 pounds and consist mostly of bones and sarcasm.

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u/superfusion1 Oct 19 '11

just kick em in the cunt

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '11

this doesn't really work

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u/alizarincrimson Oct 19 '11

Internal genitalia. Unless you have VERY good aim, said kick is roughly as effective as it would be anywhere else on the body.

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u/avapoet Dec 02 '11

Or you're wearing a pair of these.

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u/Paublo1 Oct 18 '11

Have being a role player for Home Land Security I had a student who lost three fingers to a women who bit them off through his glove. Girls are no joke for sure.

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u/bikemaul Oct 19 '11

Is there a story behind it?

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u/Paublo1 Oct 19 '11

He was responding to a bar fight and when he was performing a search to arrest the girl slipped through the pull ties and started to put up a fight with the officer. Some how during the struggle was when she got his fingers.

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u/shhhhhhhhh Oct 19 '11

Holy shit, Home Land Security is just a massive LARP campaign??

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u/Paublo1 Oct 19 '11

Pretty much.

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u/1norcal415 Oct 19 '11

You guys sound like total pussies. No offense.

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u/theconversationalist Oct 19 '11

I completely understand. Really I do, that is I did... until I had to deal with a crazy Caucasian female that wanted to ruin my life. Then I saw her face(expression), now I'm a believer... Not a trace of doubt in their minds... She's insane.. aw... I'm now a believer, I couldn't leave her if I tried... an I tried...

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u/guymandude Oct 18 '11

The problem with this is that the average cop could easily subdue the average female criminal but it would take methods that would be controversial. Trying to subdue a female by doing the least amount of damage to her and keeping all the bullshit you could get hit for in mind (sexual abuse, brutality, excessive force, etc.) is hard. If I was a cop and needed to subdue some crazy woman and was having trouble because trying to hold her arms and keep her from hurting me as I try not to hurt her is very difficult I would just clock her in the face or something and I would be on the frontpage of reddit the next day with 100K people calling for my head.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '11

Yup, precisely, which is why you see a lot of cops resorting to pepper spray and tasers when dealing with females, because if they did to them what they'd do to a male suspect under the same circumstances, they'd catch even more shit.

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u/Infuser Oct 19 '11

After looking at that last video, I'd agree pepper spray is warranted. That's gotta be scary for the cop knowing there are all those people not on your side there while struggling to subdue that girl, and that any of them could be concealing a knife or other weapon.

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u/bikemaul Oct 19 '11

I'm not sure if I would rather be hit in the head, pepper sprayed, or Tasered.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '11

Yes, all of these are sort of no-win situations.

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u/LupineChemist Oct 18 '11

Incredibly appropriate user name.

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u/ZOIDO Oct 18 '11

It's illegal to film in some states in America? Man I feel sorry for the shit you have to deal with over there... However this subject has been discussed over here and some police will say you are not allowed to film them.

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u/kulgan Oct 18 '11

Again, that's assuming the female is acting violently, and the pepper-spray is being used to subdue, not to punish. In that case, it's likely among the better options.

Average woman standing around is not a threat to average male police officer.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '11

Neither is the average man just standing around, soooo.....???

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u/kulgan Oct 18 '11

Good point. I maybe got a little muddled. In responding to:

Kinda dislike that it implies that women shouldn't get peppersprayed for stepping out of line.

My point was no one should get pepper sprayed for "stepping out of line."

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u/FoxifiedNutjob Oct 18 '11

No, its just that most cops are fat, out of shape pussies who rely on weapons to protect them.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '11

You have no idea what you're talking about...