Did the improper, excessive police use of pepper spray, which, deserved high rotation media attention, lead to this woman to use pepper spray?
And perhaps most important to the 1%, did this use of pepper spray discourage shoppers from going out to stores today? Already TV anchors are showing interviews with shoppers who are saying things like, "Forget it. I don't want to deal with this. "
So, we have Occupy Wall Street critics complaining that police presence and overtime for monitoring Occupy Wall Street occupations and actions are costing millions. Consider that the police use of pepper-spray probably inspired this woman's use of it, which could have led to millions of people staying home, perhaps leading to hundreds of millions if not billions in lost sales.
Perhaps, now that megacorporate bottom lines are being affected by police brutality, it will be reined in.
And perhaps, the occupy movement will take a lesson from this, including the massive publicity this incident is generating, and they will occupy places like Walmart and Target, Sears, Kmart, etc.
The stores will have a choice-- encourage the police to get violent, including the use of pepper-spray, which will also affect customers and employees-- or they can welcome the 99 percenters and even support them. What a concept. Imagine tents in front of Box stores, with permission. It's about time that the new public square-- the box store and shopping mall-- be open to free speech, even if they are private property.
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