Security pepper sprays students

A security guard used pepper spray on a high school student who was rushing the field after a game ...
Justified or Overkill?

http://www.wvmetronews.com/index.cfm?func=displayfullstory&storyid=33316

 

They should lay assault charges against the idiot rent-a-cop.

 

There is a reason this guy is a security guard and not a real cop.

 

Room temperature IQ?

 

I was going to say "dumber than a bag of hammers" but that works too.

 

The fan(s) who ran at a rent-a-cop who was waving a can of pepper spray isn't exactly MENSA material, either.

 

I kind of think that, as a general rule, many high school students should be randomly shot with pepper spray.

Then I read this part of the story:

My god! Impacted? I didn't realize that stuff might do that. It should probably be banned.

 

Sorry, but where in that article does it say fans ran AT the cop?

 

From the Nov. 2003 Post-Gazette:

But that was nothing compared with what happened Oct. 22, when the team upset No. 3 Virginia Tech, 28-7, in what some call the greatest win in West Virginia history.

Students poured onto the turf at Mountaineer Field and tried to rip down the goal posts. After a 40-minute battle, police using liberal amounts of pepper spray and brute force managed to clear the field.