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Pepper spray can kill coke users
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by Ahmar Mustikhan | January 2, 2010 at 11:54 pm
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Man chokes to death from pepper spray - ignored as "irrational" - typical Victoria Police whitewash
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There have been number of lethal cases involving pepper spray and now the culprits have been identified -- cocaine plus pepper spray is equal to poison.
Police officers around the world often use pepper spray to restrain people who are out of control. But after a series of unexplained deaths, researchers now suspect the spray, which is derived from chili peppers, could be fatal if the subject has been using cocaine or other drugs.
The man was clearly out of his senses. Peter M., 42, was naked and covered with blood as he ran across Munich's Höhenstadter Street. He threw himself on the ground, shouting: "I am God." Then he smeared superglue on his wounds and smashed his head into a window.
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Policemen rushed to the scene and sprayed pepper spray into the man's face, but it had no effect. Several officers eventually managed to subdue him. When they finally handcuffed him, Peter M. collapsed. He was taken to a hospital, where he died two days later, on July 5.
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Ahmar Mustikhan
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at 04:02 on January 3rd, 2010
Use of pepper spray to control or subdue a person who is out of sorts for whatever reasons must be stopped.
at 04:27 on January 3rd, 2010
The use of pepper spray and other torture methods by state mechanisms in different countries does not by prove their anti-democratic and anti-human rights character. Their democracy is hypocritical. They rarely think how conflicts in political, socio-economic and cultural conflicts in human society should be known. However, intellectuals in general do not analyze and criticize it because they do not possess a moral sense of their grand responsibility. They are too limited to their material gains while they ignore their distinct role in providing intellectual input to policymakers and the society in general.
at 05:12 on January 3rd, 2010
Undemocratic and anti-human politicians are ruling the roost.That is one of the biggest human tragedy.Intellectuals,human-right activists raise their voices,but their voices are throttled by corporate owned and/or controlled media.Third degree torture,a legacy of British Empire,is common even in so-called civilised societies of Europe and US.
Who in US administration would like to listen to a Noam Chomsky,Howard Zinn or Michael Moore and many more like them.
at 16:12 on January 3rd, 2010
If the police need to use pepper sprays or tasers to control someone who is being harmful to others, or to themself.. So be it.. They are doing their job and protecting us.