Cops in pepper-spray incident

Police are being criticized for pepper-spraying a man said to be in mental crisis, Monday morning in Outremont. In the video the man’s wrists are bound, and he only seems potentially aggressive at all when the cops are blocking him in. He’s not armed and doesn’t seem to be doing anything so threatening as to need to be pepper-sprayed in the face twice at point-blank range.

Reactions in the piece remark on the absence of psychosocial aid, but I’m more struck by how the police were absolutely inept at subduing him physically, especially since there were four of them, two of them men as tall as him.

At least he didn’t get shot.