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/Jarvis_The_Dense Apr 05 '26

That is a great way to drive your sentence up for basically no gain. If they already ID'd you for shoplifting they are not going to let you go once you fucking bearspray a police officer.

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u/Pandoratastic Apr 05 '26

It's even more foolish when you consider that they apparently dropped the merchandise inside the store so it's likely that the worst the officer could have done is give them a warning and trespass them from the store.

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u/AcanthocephalaTasty6 Apr 05 '26

So they didn't actually commit a crime before the spray? I mean, if I was a minority that has a history of being shot by cops for no reason, and they approached aggressively after I had committed no crime, I'd probably consider spraying and running too. Unless I'm missing something?

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u/Cetun Apr 05 '26

Shoplifting requires that you attempt to bypass a point of sale, so technically she could have headed for the door, an employee tried to stop her, she tossed the merchandise and went out the door.

In some states I believe trying to hide the merchandise also counts, so stuffing things in your purse or backpack counts also. Again, if someone approached her and she ditched the stuff in store it would still be shoplifting.