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unusual facts about pepper spray



Dam Vinh Hung

Activist Ly Tong dressed up in drag in order to slip through security, and under the pretext of giving Dam a flower, sprayed Dam in the face with pepper spray.

New York State Bridge Authority

The officers are unarmed, but are equipped with a baton, can of pepper spray, handcuffs, whistle, flashlight, reflective traffic vest, bullet resistant vest, and a radio that is directly linked to the Central Dispatcher and other officers.


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Hoonah Police Department

Officers carry a Glock .40 caliber automatic pistol, Binelli .12 gauge automatic shotgun, Ruger Mini-14 .223 rifle, Taser, telescopic baton and OC pepper spray.

Kathleen O'Toole

While serving as Commissioner of the Boston Police, O'Toole was a central figure in the controversy surrounding the fatal shooting of Victoria Snelgrove during the celebrations of the Boston Red Sox victory over the rival New York Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series, in which riot police fired a "less lethal" pepper spray round, which missed its intended target and struck Ms Snelgrove in the eye, entering her brain and killing her.

Lundberg v. County of Humboldt

In three incidents, the first in September 25, 1997, in the office lobby of Pacific Lumber Company in Scotia, California, the second at a Pacific Lumber logging site in Bear Creek on October 3, 1997, and a third incident at the Eureka district office of Congressman Frank Riggs on October 16, 1997, County sheriff's deputies stuck pepper spray drenched Q-tips into the protesters' eyes to try to coerce them to end the protest.

Navajo Nation Police

All officers are issued Glock 22 40 Cal. side arm, expandable baton, handcuffs, bulletproof vest, pepper spray and portable radio linked to a central dispatch.

Timothy Treadwell

Charlie Russell, who studied bears and raised them and lived with them in Kamchatka, Russia for a decade, and who worked with Treadwell, wrote a lengthy response in which he criticized Treadwell's lack of basic safety precautions such as pepper spray and electric fences, as well as Werner Herzog's portrayal of Treadwell in his documentary Grizzly Man, which Russell said was inaccurate.