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    Pepper spray, oleoresin capsicum spray, OC spray, capsaicin spray, or capsicum spray is a lachrymator (tear gas) product containing the compound capsaicin...
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    A pepper-spray projectile, also called a pepper-spray ball, pepper-ball, pepper bomb, or pepper-spray pellet, is a frangible projectile containing a powdered...
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  • used for other defense sprays regardless of their composition, and for the term "maced" to be used to reference being pepper sprayed. It is unrelated to...
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  • The UC Davis pepper spray incident occurred on November 18, 2011, during an Occupy movement demonstration at the University of California, Davis. After...
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    supervision of Charles Jonkel and Bart O'Gara. Hunt had identified commercial pepper sprays as an effective deterrent for bears in previous research; however, they...
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  • Aerosol spray Blood spray Hair spray Nasal spray Pepper spray PAVA spray Road spray or tire spray, road debris kicked up from a vehicle tire Sea spray, refers...
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    aerosol-delivered pepper spray. However, to be most effective, pepper spray must contact the eyes, nose, or mouth of the target; pepper spray on clothing or...
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    rioters. Since the 1980s, riot control officers have also used tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, stun grenades, and electric tasers. In some cases, riot...
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    chemical spray. Prosecutors later said on April 27 that the chemical spray was pepper spray. On January 28, 2023, Khater was sentenced to almost seven years...
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    Tear gas (redirect from Incapacitant spray)
    lachrymators both currently and formerly used as tear gas include pepper spray (OC gas), PAVA spray (nonivamide), CS gas, CR gas, CN gas (phenacyl chloride),...
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    PAVA spray is an incapacitant spray similar to pepper spray. It is dispensed from a handheld canister, in a liquid stream. It contains a 0.3% solution...
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  • blade width exceeding 2 inches will be considered illegal to carry. Pepper spray is legal and doesn't require a license or documentation to buy one. However...
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    Scoville scale (category Chili peppers)
    fresh chili peppers have a water content around 90%, whereas Tabasco sauce has a water content of 95%. For law-enforcement-grade pepper spray, values from...
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    an active ingredient in riot control and personal defense pepper spray agents. When the spray comes in contact with skin, especially eyes or mucous membranes...
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    use the peppers in hand grenades as a nonlethal method to control rioters with pepper sprays or in self-defence. The DRDO said that ghost pepper-based aerosol...
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    in the 21st century Nuit Debout Post-democracy Radical media UC Davis pepper spray incident Author Dan Berrett writes: "But Occupy Wall Street's most defining...
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    systematic review of the injuries and deaths caused by tear gas and pepper spray". BMC Public Health. 17 (1): 831. doi:10.1186/s12889-017-4814-6. PMC 5649076...
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    to scrub pepper spray references from Internet". Sacramento Bee. Retrieved April 13, 2016. Rawlinson, Kevin (April 21, 2016). "Pepper spray university...
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    includes: handcuff, radios, baton, hand-held protection devices such as pepper spray, firearms and ammunition, taser, flashlights, batteries, gloves, pens...
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  • died and more than 50 were injured when panic ensued from the use of pepper spray by a security guard to break up a fight. The club's owners were convicted...
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    actual strikes and kicks. Also, for some agencies the use of aerosol pepper spray and electronic control devices (TASER) may fall into the same category...
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  • panic induced by pepper spray, the main ingredient of which is oleoresin capsicum, a concentrated capsaicin wax extracted from chili peppers. Allergic reactions...
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    way people were pushing in line. The witness said she pulled out pepper spray and sprayed the other people in line. Another account stated: "The store had...
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  • protesters demonstrated near the Capitol before police pushed them away using pepper spray after they reported that sections of the crowd grew violent while failing...
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  • in Nepal, with every Kuros product sold the company donates a can of pepper spray to at risk populations of women. Kuro Tawil was on a solo-backpacking...
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    the island's Forensic Science Institute announced that no traces of pepper spray had been found on the garment or her makeup brushes, which had been submitted...
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    easily afflict others than the intended targets. Nerve gas, tear gas, and pepper spray are three modern examples of chemical weapons. Lethal unitary chemical...
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    containing OC (oleoresin capsicum) pepper dust. The plastic pellet balls burst on impact spraying the suspect with OC pepper dust and also acts as impact projectiles...
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  • saw during George Floyd protests — until he was temporarily blinded by pepper spray". USA Today. Retrieved December 6, 2023. Kalmbacher, Colin (May 30, 2020)...
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    apologizes for pepper-spray incident. Los Angeles Times Stetler, Brian (November 21, 2011). Campus Police Chief Put on Leave in Pepper Spray Incident. New...
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