And do you think any of this would have happened if some shit stirrers hadn't attacked a cop?
I have no knowledge of how these particular two individuals might have interacted, if at all, had the 'shit stirrers' not attacked a cop. I fail to see what difference that makes, as that is completely irrelevant and hypothetical.
What I do know is that an individual who was following orders to disperse was pepper sprayed after he was almost entirely past the line of cops because
EITHER:
a) he was stupid to watch where he was going because he was talking to his mommy and got too close to the line of officers, thereby deserving of a good capsaicin facial...
OR:
b)the officer decided that anyone walking too close to her, even if they posed no threat, should get sprayed as a matter of course...
OR:
c) the lady on the other side of the teacher was such a threat that it did not matter to officer angry-spray who else may suffer inhaled irritant, as long as that damn lady walking away from her got some of it also.
Let me tell you a story. Kinda long, hella relevant.
I was attending a function in the city years ago, when I first moved to the bay area. Big deal function, advertised everywhere, many levels of social and economic strata. Almost a hundred bucks a ticket, iirc.
Towards the end of the evening, I happened to be in the right spot at the right time. An exterior door opened, and cops started flowing through. One or two walked in and hesitated as one or two followed then stood next to them, then they waited while the next cops walked through, joined them in a line, and waited for the next two...in no time at all the officers had materialized into a cohesive line and secured the entire corner of the room. As part of my brain was appreciating the precision of this, they started moving forward and many of them began yelling "PARTY'S OVER!!" "EVERYONE HAS TO LEAVE NOW!", all the while having their ranks increased by more and more cops. By this point there easily twenty cops, and like the hits, they just kept coming. All this is happening in a matter of seconds.
So. Loud ass party in a giant venue (multi-story) with more than one band per level, raucous crowd, drinks...but at no point did I see that the party was out of control or wild, and I LOVE wild and out-of-control parties.
As I'm watching this and maneuvering myself away from the cops, a random dude walks by with his lady, somewhat in the general direction of the cops, but doesn't seem to be aware that things have changed. No one has, there is a lot of noise and merriment, and this is all happening right now, fluid as fuck.
Cop walks up to random dude and swats the drink forcefully out of the dude's hand. The dude looks up, and the cop grabs him by his shirt, yanks him forward and kinda tosses him behind him (and therefore, into the cops' secured area) where he is IMMEDIATELY grabbed by another cop, zip tied like a dirty hippie, and is practically dragged outside through the door.
I obviously took that as a sign from
God the man that the party was indeed over, so I high-tailed it the other way, found my friends and GTFO.
As our limo was driving away I saw 2 'paddy wagons' at the corner with a lot of people being processed. I wondered if that one random dude was charged with disorderly conduct, drunk in public, resisting arrest, failure to disperse...
So that random dude was exactly like the teacher in our current scenario, and I feel exactly the same way about both incidents.
