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Whitmire: "If you don't want to get sprayed, do what they tell you"

By Gritsforbreakfast

UPDATE: Here's the link to archived video from today's hearing.Perhaps the most contentious moment so far from today's oversight hearing on the Texas Youth Commission involved the agency's contentious pepper spray policy, when Sen. Whitmire complained that critics of TYC's pepper spray use had "demagogued the issue to death," declaring that "the people who I listen to and I trust" tell him it was important to keep pepper spray in the "arsenal."Asked his position on the topic, Conservator Richard Nedelkoff replied cautiously that in other states like California, "somebody" ... "like the federal government," would come in and tell the state they couldn't use OC spray, and said he wanted to look at what happened in those cases and what policies they implemented in response...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 22, 2008 (boomark / email).