My comment here yesterday about the “nonchalant police officer walking back and forth in front of a line of passive students seated on the ground while spraying then with a canister of pepper spray” brought a creative reaction from a reader named Dave.
He wrote:
He looked so casual that it seemed like he was watering the plants or something.
So… I Photoshopped him into a garden.
And the result….
Thanks, Dave! Great work, and a great comment.
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The photoshopping of the pepper spray cop has rapidly become a big internet meme. Some of the results are hilarious. Check these out:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-pepper-spraying-cop-meme
I don’t know why everyone thinks its funny, I dress that way every time I water my plants….
“Republicans Declare Pepper Spray A Vegetable!”
(stolen from Paul Krugman’s blog)
For some reason this brings to mind Hannah Arendt’s famous locution, “the banality of evil.” I do hope this thug is prosecuted for his unproved assault.
I’m glad you recognized that guys photoshop. It went beyond the silly ones and captured something of the campus cop’s eerie caviler attitude.
Officer Pike has now been photographed pepper-spraying people camping illegally outside of big box electronic stores, while they wait for Black Friday sales to begin:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25976845@N06/6397690919/