The author brings light to the subject of police brutality in America and the real definition of it, what it represents to humanity and the hypocrisy it presents in the U.S. Abbey begins her article with an example of police brutality with the protestors at Headwaters Forest in 1997 who united to stop the logging of redwood trees in northern California, she explains that methods the police used on this civilians were barbaric and unnecessary. To illustrate, the use of Q-tips containing pepper spray were used on protesters eyes by the police following with “also sprayed short burst of pepper spray directly into protesters’ faces” (Abbey 81), Abbey explains that these methods are chemical riot control. With using these methods the police are
