Follow-Up: Utah Policemen Who Pepper Sprayed Polynesians Cleared of Wrongdoing, “Feared Riot”

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Ernie

A disturbing follow-up to a story in October of two Roosevelt, Utah Policemen who used a baton and pepper spray of a group of Polynesians performing a haka at a high school football game: the policemen have been cleared of any wrongdoing, because they were unfamiliar to what a haka was and assumed the group would riot. “Stradinger said he wasn’t familiar with the dance and was concerned because the group was blocking the only exit from the field for the football teams. ‘I have never seen such an event, or even heard of such a thing,’ Stradinger said.”

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