Let’s remember when Seattle police pepper-sprayed 84-year old Dorli Rainey, on this day in 2011 (November 15)
This story is amazing. Someone in the Seattle PD really did pepper-spray an 84-year old woman for protesting!
An elderly woman, a pregnant woman and a priest were among those who were pepper-sprayed during a protest in support of the Occupy movement on Tuesday.
The demonstrators taking part in the Occupy Seattle movement marched from their current camp at Seattle Central Community College to Westlake Park late Tuesday afternoon.
While en route, they came across police officers at several points. At the intersection of Fifth and Pine, the crowd was met by a line of several dozen police officers on bicycles who blocked the way.
And she was back at it a few days later! Hero. From the Times:
About 30 Occupy Seattle demonstrators, included an 84-year-old woman whose pepper-sprayed face made international news this week, protested Friday afternoon against what they called police violence.
The demonstrators marched from their camp at Seattle Central Community College to the downtown police department headquarters to “demand that Seattle police be held accountable for violence against Occupy Seattle activists,” according to a news release before the march.
Once they arrived, the protesters were rallied byDorli Rainey, a Seattle activist who earned an apology from Mayor Mike McGinn and then became a symbol of the fledgling Occupy Wall Street movement after a photo of her pepper-sprayed face went viral.
“This has been a wonderful week,” Rainey told the group. “I think we have accomplished somethng that we have been trying to get, and that is attention.”
Rainey and other protesters — including prominent Seattle clergyman Rich Lang — were pepper-sprayed Tuesday night because they blocked a downtown street and ignored orders to disperse, police said.
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