{"id":296,"date":"2011-11-27T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:31:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:31:37","slug":"lapd-may-not-charge-walmart-pepper-spray-perpetrator-wth-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2011\/11\/27\/lapd-may-not-charge-walmart-pepper-spray-perpetrator-wth-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"LAPD may not charge WalMart pepper spray perpetrator? WTH??? (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I caught this while reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/wal-mart-pepper-spraying-customer-charged-report-article-1.983094?localLinksEnabled=false\">news<\/a>&nbsp;on the web this morning, it made my head spin&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the LAPD may not charge the woman in the pepper spraying incident.<\/p>\n<p>I have to ask, <b>why the hell not?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In my mind pepper spraying in a wall-mart is akin to yelling &#8220;Fire&#8221; in a crowded theater.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports attributed her actions to &#8220;Competitive Shopping&#8221;? No, that&#8217;s not competitive&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This woman is a terrorist!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">She used a <i><u><b>chemical weapon<\/b><\/u><\/i> on men, women and children. Yeah folks&#8230; it&#8217;s a chemical weapon&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>She <b>knowingly<\/b> did this <u>without regard or concern<\/u> for the innocent people around her. What would have happened if someone in the crowd was asthmatic? Or simply violently allergic to capsaicin&nbsp;or whatever active ingredient was in the spray?<\/p>\n<p><b>How the hell<\/b> is that not an offense worthy of prosecution?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another little chilling thought&#8230; She could have just as <u>easily<\/u> been spraying any other material into the crowd (<u>sarin, ricin, aerosolized ebola<\/u>?).<\/p>\n<p>She should be <b>prosecuted<\/b> to the fullest extent of the law <b>as a terrorist<\/b> and I&#8217;d be all for her incarceration until trial being handled in Guantanamo Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The real <b>shit<\/b> is that if someone had grabbed the bitch and fed that bottle of pepper spray to her&#8230; I&#8217;m sure assault charges would have been leveled against the person who acted to put a stop to her bullshit.<\/p>\n<p>So why is this woman going to get off scott free?<\/p>\n<p><b>Now there&#8217;s an interesting question&#8230;.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>As cynical as I am, I&#8217;m betting that she&#8217;s claiming she didn&#8217;t understand what she was doing, or she&#8217;s claiming that the pepper spray unit was malfunctioning.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see where this goes in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>At minimum I&#8217;d hope that the people she assaulted get a chance to file suit against her for bodily injury. Especially if the City and County of Los Angeles isn&#8217;t going to do it&#8217;s duty.<\/p>\n<p>She sure started their Holiday Season off with a dose of good cheer!<\/p>\n<p>I hope her xbox was worth it.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 11\/28\/2011<\/b><br \/><b><br \/><\/b><br \/>The lady claims that she was scared by the crowd and all the pushing and shoving.<\/p>\n<p><b>Okaaaayyyy&#8230;<\/b><br \/><b><br \/><\/b><br \/><u>But<\/u> she <u>still grabbed an xbox and went to the check-out counter<\/u>, completed her purchase and left the store.<\/p>\n<p><u>Most of us, if we were scared would just leave<\/u> the store without bothering to grab and pay for anything.<\/p>\n<p>I can say with certainty I&#8217;d leave.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been in a couple of situations in Malls where the crowd and the pushing and shoving was in fact escalating. <u>I dropped the shit I was going to buy and left the store<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>You can always buy shit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve even left Disneyland due to overcrowding.<\/p>\n<p>Big crowds are inherently dangerous especially when they&#8217;re culturally dissimilar. You can see the tension building and you know it&#8217;s only a matter of time before someone commits a cultural insult and fists, knives, bullets, or bottles, will be flying.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always best to &#8220;GIT while the Gitting is good&#8221; as my Southern relatives would say.<\/p>\n<p>Bail out before an incident occurs and you&#8217;re ahead of the game. You&#8217;re less likely to spend the night in lockup, and after the police have cleared the area&#8230; You might still be able to get what you wanted at a discount because the box was trashed in the riot.<\/p>\n<p><b>This lady needs to be tried &amp; prosecuted!<\/b><br \/><b><br \/><\/b><br \/><b>I know DAMN well I would be cooling my heels in jail if I&#8217;d pulled the same stunt.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE<\/b> 12\/8\/2011<br \/><b> <\/b><br \/><b>http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2011\/12\/walmart-pepper-spray-city-attorney.html<\/b><br \/><b><br \/><\/b><br \/>It looks like some kind of favoritism is in play<b>. <\/b>The LA District Attorney will not file Felony charges. Instead they&#8217;ve decided that the case will be given to city prosecutors for possible misdemeanor charges. <\/p>\n<p>WTF!?!?!<\/p>\n<p>If it was me or anyone else, the full breadth of the law would be shoved right up our ass&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Why does this lady merit special treatment??<\/p>\n<p>I suppose that If you&#8217;re a Hispanic woman in LA, you can engage in terrorist actions with no fear of consequences&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught this while reading news&nbsp;on the web this morning, it made my head spin&#8230;. Apparently the LAPD may not charge the woman in the pepper spraying incident. I have to ask, why the hell not? In my mind pepper spraying in a wall-mart is akin to yelling &#8220;Fire&#8221; in a crowded theater. Initial reports &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2011\/11\/27\/lapd-may-not-charge-walmart-pepper-spray-perpetrator-wth-updated\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LAPD may not charge WalMart pepper spray perpetrator? WTH??? 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