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THIS is the moment hopeless French cops try to stop migrants with pepper spray – before watching dozens sail away on a small boat. The bungling officers were captured trying to run after groups of ...

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THIS is the shocking moment that sparked outrage as a plain-clothes police officer threatened to pepper spray commuters. Captured at Stratford Station in London, the footage shows the man ready to use ...

Police called to a Leicestershire park to help an intoxicated woman had to strike and pepper spray a man who became aggressive and attacked his friend before resisting arrest. Anthony Crump, 43, of no ...

Victims of two recent street crimes in New Haven reported being sprayed with the irritant before being robbed, police say.

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A police officer appeared in court today charged with assaulting a 14-year-old girl by allegedly using a pepper spray on her and putting his hands around her throat when she was arrested. PC Thomas ...

A naked woman suffering a mental health episode was punched, kicked, dragged by her hair and pepper-sprayed by two police officers, a court has heard. Senior constable Nathan Black and constable ...