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To: one_less who wrote (802924)	8/20/2014 1:43:54 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579792

>Your friend went there so he could tell his friends and grand kids some day, "hey I was there and got maced." Not cool. Just a guess, since I don't know your friend but that seems to be the mind set. No, he went because he's a reporter and it's his job. -Z

To: one_less who wrote (802924)	8/20/2014 2:08:40 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579792

Hot off the presses: thedailybanter.com One of the last things I remember seeing was a group of cops taking down someone just a few feet in front of me as I retreated quickly to what I thought was the safety of the media staging area, which had been specifically cordoned off for us. Then one of the officers reached for his belt, turned and sprayed me directly in the face with a deep orange liquid that created spots all over my camera. I blinked a few times — kept shooting. And then it hit me. If you’ve never been shot with law enforcement-grade oleoresin capsicum, trust me when I tell you you never want to. It’s excruciating. My eyes slammed shut and I doubled over, grunting. “Motherfucker!” I said more than once to no one. From then on, all I could do was hear what was going on rather than see it. I know it was protesters who attended to me at first, giving me milk for my eyes and water for my mouth and telling me to hold still so I wouldn’t run into anyone. Yeah, I'd say he really wanted to get maced. -Z