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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: Pepper Spray Gets in Their Eyes By Neil deMause The WTO protests in Seattle may be remembered as the time when the words "pepper spray" first entered the vocabulary of the American public. From November 30 through December 3, as police took on demonstrators outside the World Trade Organization meeting at the Seattle Convention Center, you couldn't turn on a TV or open a newspaper without hearing how officers were using "tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray" to disperse crowds of protesters. And unless you scoured the news media, that's all you heard. While comparisons to the "turbulent 1960s" abounded, the media imposed a near-total blackout on a news story far more notable than a few broken store windows: the unprecedented indiscriminate use of military weaponry on a peaceful population. Over the first two days of the WTO protests, police clad in riot gear routinely shot pain-inducing pepper spray into the eyes of nonviolent protesters, fired rubber- and plastic-jacketed bullets at close range into crowds, and charged peaceful demonstrators with armored vehicles--all in front of hundreds of TV news cameras and assembled journalists. One clip, of a heavily armored officer kicking a man in the groin, then shooting him in the chest point-blank with a nonlethal "beanbag" gun, aired on several networks. Yet reporters expressed minimal concern about these tactics. To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1029 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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