fficer Errs, Uses Pepper Spray On Burning Man

This is how they get rid of us: One person at a time...The police can't determine the difference between pepper spray (very small canister) and a fire extinguisher (very big red cannister)???

Officer Errs, Uses Pepper Spray On Burning Man
Dodge City Man Dies After Setting Self On Fire
January 29, 2010

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Portland Police Chief Rosie Sizer said an officer who was attempting to help a man who had set himself on fire accidentally sprayed him with pepper spray.

Sizer said the officer spotted the man in flames Wednesday in downtown Portland and hurried to get a fire extinguisher from the trunk of her patrol car. Instead, Sizer said, she accidentally grabbed a large can of pepper spray, colored red like an extinguisher. Portland fire officials said the nonflammable spray had no additional effect on the man.

The man, identified as 26-year-old Daniel Shaull of Dodge City, Kan., died at a hospital later Wednesday. His father, Warren Shaull, told The Oregonian that his son had psychiatric problems and was living on the streets.