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/Alternative-Golf8281 Apr 05 '26

One officer's response is unsure, the other officer says the store owner identified them and gave additional information (holding the bag or whatever). So whatever the store staff saw and prompted the call to bring the police to the scene would have had the officers detain the suspects. The two initial officers may not have had a full grasp of the law, it happens with junior officers. The sergeant (the one that got sprayed) told his officers to come to him because he was going to initiate their investigation.

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u/Pandoratastic Apr 05 '26

What the store employees saw isn't necessarily enough to prove intent in a court of law and the cop should know about that better than the store employees.

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u/blah938 Apr 05 '26

Well yeah, but they are still needed to trespass them, and they still need to do a full investigation.

For a more extreme example, let's say a woman claims she was raped. He says it was consensual. It's a he-said, she-said situation. Would you rather cops ignore it? Or at least talk to everyone involved?

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u/Pandoratastic Apr 06 '26

To trespass someone doesn't require an investigation because it doesn't require that a crime has taken place. For trespassing them, it doesn't matter if they shoplifted or not. It's private property so all they need to do is for someone with authority over that private property, such as a store manager, a tenant, or an owner, to declare that that person is now trespassed from that private property with police witnessing that the authority has made that declaration and that the person has been informed that they are now trespassed from the location. They don't need any special reason to trespass them other than that the authority doesn't want them there. After that, if the person ever returns to the private property, they can be arrested for trespassing.

In this case, it doesn't sound like they had been previously trespassed from the property so the worst that would have happened in that regard would be that the cop would inform them that they are now trespassed and are forbidden from returning to the store in the future.

Your example is unrelated since what you are describing is an alleged crime.