"Screw us and we multiply" --- Seattle police pepper spray 84-year-old woman

[kpete]

Seattle activist Dorli Rainey, 84, reacts after being hit with pepper spray during an Occupy Seattle protest, Nov. 15, 2011 at Westlake Park in Seattle. (AP)

“Something funny happened on my way to a transportation meeting in Northgate,” said Dorli Rainey, the octogenarian who said she was nearly trampled after police became violent. “As I got off the bus at 3rd and Pine I heard helicopters above. Knowing that the problems of New York would certainly precipitate action by Occupy Seattle, I thought I better check it out.”


She added: “Well free speech does have its limits as I found out as the cops shoved their bicycles into the crowd and simultaneously pepper sprayed the so captured protesters. If it had not been for my Hero (Iraq Vet Caleb) I would have been down on the ground and trampled. This is what democracy looks like. It certainly left an impression on the people who rode the No. 1 bus home with me. In the women’s movement there were signs which said: ‘Screw us and we multiply.’”


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Pregnant woman pepper sprayed at Occupy Seattle
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57325688/pregnant-woman-pepper-sprhttp://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/16/seattle-police-pepper-spray-84-year-old-woman-as-occupy-crackdowns-occur-nationally/ayed-at-occupy-seattle/

[Bozita]

1. Looking for this? ...

[Ship of Fools]

2. I hope the cops responsible get strung up by their BALLS. Seriously.

[RueVoltaire]

3. K&R everyone should see this

[HereSince1628]

4. !!!

[lunatica]

5. People need to send goggles to the OWS in the cities where this is happening

It would neutralize the use of pepper spray.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Also Maalox...mixed with water it neutralizes the spray.

OWS NYC uses spray bottles of the mix.
Guess they can use more now that their stuff got stolen by the PD.

[Fire Walk With Me]

18. Evidently it is knowledge needed by the majority of protesters:

[Hell Hath No Fury]

6. K&R

[scorpiogirl]

7. This makes me so angry and sad.

I imagine my husband's 96 year old grandmother being treated this way and all I can think is, this needs to go viral. Multiply.

[doublethink]

8. Big Kick

:kick:

[Uncle Joe]

9. When they're not shooting tear gas cannisters at Iraqi War veterans,

they're macing 84 year old women, good job men in blue.:sarcasm:

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[dana_b]

10. holy crap..

really, was THIS necessary? Was she throwing hitting the police or throwing rocks? Those cops should be prosecuted. I'm glad those two men were there for her.

[Carolina]

12. K&R

[Tsiyu]

13. Seattle tells the world: This is Democracy in Action

This is the picture of what Seattle cops want America to look like.

The whole world is watching, Seattle.

And what do you suppose they're thinking about US so-called Democracy?

[Amonester]

16. I am in the Whole World Watching part and...

Most people I know here are asking themselves where the eff is the "We have embraced the chance to show that America values the dignity of the 84 year-old protester pepper-sprayed in Seattle more than the raw power of the Mayor of Seattle" declaration (by we know who).

[femrap]

14. You go, Dorli...nt

[ZombieHorde]

15. The police will probably give each other high fives when they see that picture. nt

[eridani]

17. Her interview on Olberman here

Be sure to watch the segment from tonight's Countdown with Keith Olbermann program in which he interviewed Dorli: http://tinyurl.com/cpaffe5