Yesterday it emerged that a pregnant woman who had been sprayed
with pepper spray at a demonstration has lost her baby. This is
a shocking claim but it isn’t surprising when you consider the
toxicity of pepper spray and the fact that it is banned for use
in warfare under Article I.5 of the Chemical Weapons Convention
(signed by the US, the UK and almost every other country on the
planet).Police “pepper spray” is six hundred and sixty two times
more powerful than jalapeño pepper and many hundreds of times
stronger than the cans available to ordinary Americans. There is
no debate that being sprayed with pepper spray is extremely
dangerous but few know that it is known to cause potentially
lethal respiratory failure, especially for asthma sufferers.
Most worryingly, the least informed appear to be the US police
officers who are prepared to nonchalantly spray it directly in
to the faces of peaceful protesters. Even more worrying is the
complete lack of interest by the authorities in the lethal
impact that pepper