MIM Notes 194      September 15, 1999

Cambridge trains pigs to shoot Latinos
by MIM

In early August, the  Cambridge Chronicle and the Boston Globe 
exposed the Cambridge police training practice of telling officers 
that pepper spray "may be ineffective against Latinos, Indians, 
and other ethnic groups who eat spicy food."

There is no scientific evidence showing that spicy food affects 
reaction to pepper spray or that certain groups of people have a 
monopoly on spicy food consumption. These instructions typify 
Amerika's enforcement of national oppression. There is little 
difference between the spicy food justification and saying that 
Africans and indigenous people should be beaten and sold into 
slavery because they are not human or are heathens.

Pepper spray is a biological agent used to incapacitate prisoners 
and suspects. It is designed to be sprayed into the eyes and cause 
temporary blindness and pain. Many pig departments have 
regulations stating that the spray should only be used after a 
warning or when the suspect resists arrest. But youth and 
oppressed nationals know too well that pigs use pepper spray 
outside of these guidelines regularly.

The active ingredient in pepper spray has been banned by the 
Chemical Weapons Convention. The United Snakes acts as world 
military pig to allegedly stop the use of chemical and biological 
weapons by allegedly 'hostile' countries like Iraq. And Cambridge 
pigs explicitly instruct trainees that pepper spray is not enough 
force in dealing with oppressed nationals. The conclusion for 
trainee piglets: 'If he's brown, shoot him down.'

The Cambridge pig department claims that it will stop using the 
bogus instructions. The pigs did not state what would be done to 
correct the settler chauvinist information already given to its 
pigs. Furthermore, MIM does not see that changing paper manuals 
actually affects the practice of the pigs. There are two standards 
of justice in Amerika: one for the white nation and one for 
everyone else it oppresses. Information like this only reinforces 
what the oppressed nations already know to be true and underscores 
the need for proletarian-controlled justice brigades and 
revolution.

Note: Boston Globe, 14 Aug 1999.