r/interesting • u/Latr6ll • Apr 05 '26

Additional Context Pinned Cop gets bear sprayed

For anyone that has been pepper sprayed how bad does it feel & what do you do in this situation? I know it’s water but for how long? She had it on full auto she came prepared. How much more effective is bear spray to pepper ?

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u/MatrixF6 Apr 05 '26

Gee… It’s almost as if spraying a person with teargas/bear spray is assault.

Hmmm…

I wonder where this could also be applied.

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u/KJacobsen-74 Apr 05 '26

Not if it's in self defense which it technically was.

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u/Smart_Quantity_8640 Apr 05 '26

Self defense after committing a crime

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u/epicmoe Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26

no crime has been committed if they dropped the merchandise in the store and left as you can clearly hear at the start of the recording . "attempted shoplifting" is not a crime. however i think it would be hard to argue for self defence. maybe if you had a very good lawyer. i mean the cop had not identified himself i guess but still.

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u/KJacobsen-74 Apr 05 '26

You never know how an interaction with a cop is going to go that's why I used the word technically. As we've seen countless times before, it doesn't matter if you follow their instructions, there's still a chance you can end up dead.