When photographer Xavier Diekman was first pepper sprayed at a protest, the police officer was less than a metre away. "He dosed me from very, very close," Mr Diekman told the ABC. "There was the ...

NEW HAVEN — There's a reason oleoresin capsaicin (OC) spray is used against aggressive grizzly bears. Commonly called pepper spray, the stuff, according to many accounts by those on the receiving end, ...