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imax2268

(6,004 posts)
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 02:03 PM Feb 2017

real or fake? trump supporter pepper sprayed UC Berkeley

So this video popped up on my news feed last night and it shows a girl being pepper sprayed at the UC Berkeley protests. It seems a bit fake to me. She seems to turn her head at just the right moment when sprayed, then when asked by the reporter she quickly turns and walks away, saying she is ok.

Having seen the effects of pepper spray, this seems like it was staged.

Thoughts...?

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real or fake? trump supporter pepper sprayed UC Berkeley (Original Post) imax2268 Feb 2017 OP
Wouldn't she have been gasping for breath after getting a dose like that? jalan48 Feb 2017 #1
The spray would also be yellowish and liquid, not a shite vapor Warpy Feb 2017 #3
Yea... imax2268 Feb 2017 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author imax2268 Feb 2017 #5
It looks real to me but it could have been a Trump goon. Who knows. nt Quixote1818 Feb 2017 #4
I'm starting to see a pattern at the anti Milo rallies of possible planted provacateurs Crash2Parties Feb 2017 #6
Black bloc are paid alt righters, IMO SticksnStones Feb 2017 #7
I call fake! Louis1895 Feb 2017 #8
excellent working tracking that down yuiyoshida Feb 2017 #14
This seems interesting... imax2268 Feb 2017 #9
Completely. tenorly Feb 2017 #10
Reporter should have been coughing, too, Louis1895 Feb 2017 #11
Bingo. tenorly Feb 2017 #13
Inert Pepper Spray Louis1895 Feb 2017 #12
Make Bitcoin Great Again? IronLionZion Feb 2017 #15
And add to that Plucketeer Feb 2017 #16
That was not pepper spray. n/t Mr.Bill Feb 2017 #17
Someone at work had pepper spray go of in her purse and people in the whole area were coughing kacekwl Feb 2017 #18

Warpy

(111,255 posts)
3. The spray would also be yellowish and liquid, not a shite vapor
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 02:19 PM
Feb 2017

Had it been anything more dangerous than hair spray or deodorant, she'd have been unable to speak.

And yeah, it was a setup.

Response to imax2268 (Reply #2)

SticksnStones

(2,108 posts)
7. Black bloc are paid alt righters, IMO
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 02:29 PM
Feb 2017

Just like the Richard Spencer punching incident...

Somewhere there's a website where they are coordinating their plans...

Louis1895

(768 posts)
8. I call fake!
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 02:43 PM
Feb 2017

Her name is Kiara F. Robles. Her hat says "MAKE BITCOIN GREAT AGAIN".

She may be one of the outside anarchist agitators that Robert Reich spoke of. Check out the arm that comes in and sprays her. The person spraying has a black jacket and black gloves on. I am surprised the cameraman did not swing the camera to film the perpetrator.

I did a little investigation and found this Twitter page for Kiara:https://twitter.com/kiarafrobles


Lots of propaganda there, including an interview on InfoWars.

You can see someone took a cell phone video from another angle and she seems to turn her head at the right time to avoid the impact of the spray. Also, she does not seem to cough or choke when sprayed.

She also started a Twitter account in January 2017 https://twitter.com/anarchoass?lang=en. With that tag, she might be an anarchist.

tenorly

(2,037 posts)
10. Completely.
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 03:17 PM
Feb 2017

Pepper spray overwhelms anyone coming into such close contact with it. It's also rather liquid, and not aerosol as was the case here.

The girl and the operative in glasses were in it together.

IronLionZion

(45,433 posts)
15. Make Bitcoin Great Again?
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 06:56 PM
Feb 2017


Looks fake. Everyone in that area should be feeling the effects if it were real.

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
16. And add to that
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 08:08 PM
Feb 2017

that she rather calmly answered that she WAS OK - and thank you for asking. PHONY!!!!!

kacekwl

(7,016 posts)
18. Someone at work had pepper spray go of in her purse and people in the whole area were coughing
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 10:31 PM
Feb 2017

and eyes were teared up for quite sometime. Not even close to a direct shot.

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