Thread:Comments:California campus pepper spray police suspended/This doesn't make any sense/reply (4)

Well, if you had bothered to do the slightest bit of research on this subject before dis-informing the reader and altering the title so that nobody knows what the subject is about, you would have discovered that The San Jose Mercury News substantiated my assertions about standard police procedures as have the majority of reliable sources on this subject:

"There is near universal agreement on this: Pepper spray is a tool to preserve peace, not break up peaceful protests...A half-dozen law enforcement officials interviewed for this story agreed that the use of pepper spray at UC Davis did not appear to be appropriate or reasonable. All agreed that the incident would not likely have happened at their agencies. 'Our policy is that we do not use pepper spray or Tasers or batons against passively resisting people,' said Peter Rode, Santa Clara County assistant sheriff. 'It's a public safety issue. If they are blocking an intersection, then of course you have to move them.' San Jose police Sgt. Jason Dwyer said he has only used pepper spray once in his 13-year career -- to break up a fight between two women who were kicking in stiletto heels. 'On some people -- sometimes intoxicated or angry -- it can tick them off even more,' he said."

Is it too much to ask you to research a subject before writing about it? Your change of the title from "Police officers put on leave after pepper spraying protesters" to "California campus pepper spray police suspended" has no rational basis other than to confuse readers and to deliberately downplay the main subject of the story.