In the past few days we've had two high-profile incidents of pepper spray abuse, so extreme, that they seem to be inarguable examples of authoritarian brutality, more at home in the streets of Cairo, than baseball and apple pie America.
Not so! Says Fox News, the corporatist apologist network. According to Megyn Kelly, it's a mere "food product." As benign as anything you would find in your kitchen cupboard, right next to the nutmeg.
Deborah Blum, a Pulitzer prize-winning real science journalist, has a slightly different take on pepper spray, unfettered by a political agenda.
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