This video is disturbing, to say the least:
James Fallows over at The Atlantic has some cogent thoughts on this:
While the first 60 seconds of the 8-minute YouTube video are dominated by the shockingly calm brutality of the policeman, the rest of it is remarkable mainly for the stoicism and resolve of the protestors. You don't have to idealize everything about them or the Occupy movement to recognize this as a moral drama that the protestors clearly won.What is going on is a war of ideas, based in turn on moral standing. This engagement, which started in Minute 1 with police over-reaction and ended in Minute 8 with nervous police retreat, was a rout.
Read Fallow's entire post to get a sense of how important this episode is.
And then watch this video for another angle, including the lead-up to the spraying. Notice the lethal weapons the police are using:
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