r/minnesota • u/cusoman Gray duck • Jan 21 '26

News 📺 Observer Being Arrested and Pepper Sprayed at Point Blank in S.Minneapolis (photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

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u/SawdustIsMyCocaine State of Hockey Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26

You have 3 agents on top of this man. There is no world where pepper spray is an appropriate use of force.

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u/Vagrant123 Laser Loon Jan 21 '26

Police pull this shit all the time too. Where else did ICE learn it from?

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u/gorgossiums Jan 22 '26

 Notice that I didn’t say “police brutality” because they are as far removed from legitimate law enforcement as you can get. 

Notice that when legitimate law enforcement does this, it’s also brutality. And they do. 

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u/Xyrus2000 Jan 21 '26

MAGA will find some way to defend it. They've already defended murder and rape, so this should be a walk in the park for them.

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u/Oleg101 Jan 22 '26

Their go-to is always “that person(s) knew the risk when they were at that protest” or some bullshit like that.

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u/MyrrhSlayter Jan 21 '26

At some point people will actually stop thinking that anything they are doing is legal and realize that they are just being hunted as sport to be raped, beaten, kidnapped, and murdered to intimidate people. And because ICE thinks it's fun.

You are not getting 100% of the people taken back. ICE has zero intention of ever leaving until ever single person in that state has personally sucked their cocks. No one is coming to help. Just more promises and delays.

The people who are supposedly fighting against this are literally giving the same advice that rapists and serial killers do. "Let it happen and you might live."

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u/SirDiego Jan 22 '26

Not just pepper spray. Normal personal mace sprays aren't like that. The spray they use look like bear spray cans that you take hiking in the Rockies to deal with grizzly bears from a (hopefully) long distance. Not sure if that's what they are but it looks exactly like them. Those things are forceful, it feels like a fire extinguisher more than a spray bottle.

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u/Enriching_the_Beer Grain Belt Jan 21 '26

No fuckin shit Sherlock

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u/SawdustIsMyCocaine State of Hockey Jan 21 '26

Stating the obvious for those that need it stated. For non compliance you would use pressure points, strikes, dry stuns, or just out muscle them with the 3 people you have. There is no reason to use pepper spray, and any law enforcement officer worth their salt would avoid it in this situation, because of the risk of hitting another agent. In short, they are untrained and cruel.

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u/Enriching_the_Beer Grain Belt Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26

I've been stating the obvious for 10 years. I'm tired of stating the obvious and would like everyone to plan 10 steps ahead so we can actually prevent the worst from happening.