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Seattle activist pepper-sprayed while talking on phone sues city and police [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Seattle activist pepper-sprayed while talking on phone sues city and police
Oliver Laughland
Thursday 29 January 2015 21.52 GMT
A Seattle high school history teacher who was pepper-sprayed by police as he walked home from a Black Lives Matter rally on the Martin Luther King holiday is suing the city and the police for $500,000.
Newly released video shows the moment Jesse Hagopian, a popular city activist who had earlier addressed the rally, was sprayed directly in the face by a white female police officer as he talks on his mobile phone and appears to be be walking away from the police line.
Hagopian’s lawyer, James Bible, said the use of force was unprovoked.
“His eyes were burning, his nostrils were inflamed, his ear was burning,” Bible told the Guardian, adding that Hagopian had been on the phone to his mother at the time the incident occurred. Hagopian had planned on returning home to celebrate the second birthday of his child.
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Oliver Laughland
Thursday 29 January 2015 21.52 GMT
A Seattle high school history teacher who was pepper-sprayed by police as he walked home from a Black Lives Matter rally on the Martin Luther King holiday is suing the city and the police for $500,000.
Newly released video shows the moment Jesse Hagopian, a popular city activist who had earlier addressed the rally, was sprayed directly in the face by a white female police officer as he talks on his mobile phone and appears to be be walking away from the police line.
Hagopian’s lawyer, James Bible, said the use of force was unprovoked.
“His eyes were burning, his nostrils were inflamed, his ear was burning,” Bible told the Guardian, adding that Hagopian had been on the phone to his mother at the time the incident occurred. Hagopian had planned on returning home to celebrate the second birthday of his child.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/29/jesse-hagopian-pepper-sprayed-seattle-black-lives-matter-rally-sues
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