The Nolo County D.A.'s office recently let the pepper spraying cop walk, finding no criminal conduct, and by reasoning that seemed to shockingly imply that police may spray non-violent protesters at point blank range in the face if their arms are linked, rather than not linked.
Linking arms is, of course, customary at non-violent protests and demonstrations, with a proud history and tradition in the U.S.A.
Courtesy of the Washington Post
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other famous civil rights leaders link arms in active resistance - not passive resistance - in this famous civil rights march photograph taken in Memphis, Tenn., March 28, 1968
My country 'tis of thee.
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