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Police Abuse

Getting an Eyeful

Charles Oliver | 2.4.2015 6:00 AM


The NAACP is threatening to sue the city of Seattle after a police officer pepper sprayed a teacher who'd just given a speech at a Martin Luther King Jr. rally. Video shows Jesse Hagopian walking and talking on his cellphone, committing no obvious crime, when the officer sprayed him.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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