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Bag’s Take-Away:
What earns you extra attention when a fellow institution of higher learning in your state has already been made a stinging world-wide example of by pepper-spraying its students?
How about when you pepper spray children and congressional candidates?
Top photo via MSNBC. Bottom photo via stltoday.com
(credit: Top photo Michael Yanow/Getty Images caption: Two women treat a child suffering from the effect of pepper spray outside the SMC Board of Trustees meeting on April 3, 2012 in Santa Monica, California. Bottom photo: Courtesy David Steinman/AP Photo caption: n this photo provided by David Steinman, 33rd district congressional candidate David Steinman wipes his face after being sprayed with pepper spray during a protest on Tuesday, April 3, 2012, in Santa Monica, Calif. Campus police pepper-sprayed as many as 30 demonstrators after Santa Monica College students angry over a plan to offer high-priced courses tried to push their way into a trustees meeting Tuesday evening, authorities said.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
One of the major and most serious developments in news gathering over these past few years has been the targeting of photojournalists by police. It’s not often, though, we get visuals of it. Photos like this one from Portugal, of an attack on an AFP photographer, are important to be seen to raise the awareness of press freedom and “visual rights” especially in the this age of crackdowns against social media-infused protests.
via Reuters Photos Editor’s Choice
( credit: Hugo Correia/Reuters caption: A policeman strikes AFP photojournalist Patricia Melo during the Portuguese general strike in Lisbon March 22, 2012. Portugal faces a general strike by workers angered by austerity measures imposed as a condition of a 78-billion euro bailout last year but doubts remain as to whether Thursday’s stoppage will receive widespread support.)
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Bag’s Take On Pepper Spray Cop Spraying His Own Cops In City Park:
1. Having to be the big man, Officer Pike — in one shot — reduces peeps to Lilliputians.
2. You bet they’ve circled the wagons. 3. Not sure if it’s Portland, Oakland, or where, but for the next week, at least, could just as well be the Davis cops there. 4. What goes around comes around — right, Officer Balogna?
Also see Bag’s analysis: Taking it to the Kittens: The Pepper Spray Cop Meme — and What It Means
image via Pepper Spraying Cop Tumblr site
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Viral UC Davis pepper spray photo. The horror’s in the non-chalance. (Cop 1 & Cop 2.)(photo: Louise Macabitas)
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