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Litigation

Sep. 11, 2004

Pepper Spray Described as Punitive, Protective

SAN FRANCISCO - Humboldt County law enforcement officers used pepper spray to punish anti-logging protesters in a series of incidents in 1997, an attorney for the demonstrators said at the outset of a police brutality re-trial Thursday.

By Dennis Pfaff
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - Humboldt County law enforcement officers used pepper spray to punish anti-logging protesters in a series of incidents in 1997, an attorney for the demonstrators said at the outset of a police brutality re-trial Thursday.
        But a lawyer f...

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