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Police Disperse Bush Protesters with Pepper Paintballs

Posted by michael on Friday October 15, 2004 @08:29AM from the welts-will-fade-in-a-week-or-two dept.

help_cecil_help writes "The AP has this story on how Bush protesters in Jacksonville Oregon were dispersed by local police using 'pepperballs.' The Jacksonville City Administrator described the projectiles as 'like a paintball filled with cayenne pepper'."

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Funny thing about Jacksonville, OR by dtfinch · 2004-10-15 10:43 · Score: 0, Redundant

The town is highly regulated, historic, and is home to a far above average percentage number of police officers.

Being a resident less than 20 miles away, I'm not at all surprised at the non-violent protests, or Bush's willingness to use cayenne pepper balls on harmless civilians. This area really looks like "bush country", lots of open fields and people who's jobs depend on the timber industry, but the economy has gone downhill and we have a reasonably sized university in the area.