oh my god. its not like pepper-spray does any kind of permanent damage in the first place.
Police officers could easily kill someone by spraying POLICE GRADE CAPASAISIN directly into someone's eyes, throat, and nose. It is a chemical WEAPON designed to cause crippling amounts of pain upon hitting mucus membranes. Not only is it a form of torture, but anyone sensitive to pain or shock could easily die from this. And WOW, and that you justify oppression with the notion that "oh, it's not that they kill you, just cause you pain"... Why would you ever say that in an argument.

@Kraco: Because even in a stateless society, sitting on train tracks and killing yourself, the people you were with, the train conductor who didn't see you, and anyone else by the consequences of your actions is considered something along the lines of murder. If sitting on a (public, even) sidewalk and being loud was lethal then half of the New York homeless population would be incarcerated.

And let's talk about federal law that every citizen is "born" into in the country of America. If you don't want loud people on your sidewalk, go to a privately owned University, not one that is public and therefore owned by you. See the copious amounts of links that I already mentioned where America claims that its citizens have the right to protest. It's ALREADY written down in the damn federal laws that "disturbing the peace" during a protest is not something you can just say to prevent a protest, so the cops obviously breaking their own law that they claim to protect.