![]() "I think this started with Occupy Wall Street with the women who were penned in that got pepper-sprayed by that cop, so now everyone's looking for pepper spray," Huh told. Some of the images take on a Banksy-esque quality because the act of pepper-spraying can look like spray-painting, making Pepper Spray Cop easy to incorporate into other photographs or art works. The similar imagery of cops pepper-spraying participants at various Occupy Wall Street protests is what makes them easy to meme, said Ben Huh, CEO of Cheezburger Network. Hall said the pictures "also help highlight just why the images of this guy hosing peaceful park-sitters in the face with pepper spray is so wrong and representative of the baffling (but unsurprising) stance police are taking with the protesters." "And unlike that photo, 'pepper spraying cop' was just brimming with opportunity for humor." "The imagery of the pepper-spraying cop somehow managed to top the chilling photo of pepper-sprayed 84-year-old Dorli Rainey from last week," said Brady Hall, the 34-year-old filmmaker behind the Pepper Spraying Cop Tumblr, in an e-mail to.
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