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A 75-year-old Vietnam veteran was seen on video getting pepper-sprayed in the face as he stood in front of a line of armed law enforcement in camouflage gear during protests in Portland, Oregon.
The video, posted by an independent journalist to Twitter on Sunday, shows Mike Hastie holding his camera and speaking to the officers about his experience at war, saying loudly he was a Vietnam veteran and combat medic. As he's shouting at them, a group of armed officers are seen walking by him and one of them sprays Hastie directly in the face while up close to him as others push him out of the way, telling him to back up.
Hastie said he approached the officers, who he believed to be deployed by the federal government, because he wanted to tell them about the "horrifying" things American soldiers were tasked with while abroad that he says people don't know about.
"I stood next to a ditch in Vietnam, and we murdered 170 Vietnamese people", he yelled.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/28/us/portland-protests-vietnam-veteran-pepper-spray/index.html
The video, posted by an independent journalist to Twitter on Sunday, shows Mike Hastie holding his camera and speaking to the officers about his experience at war, saying loudly he was a Vietnam veteran and combat medic. As he's shouting at them, a group of armed officers are seen walking by him and one of them sprays Hastie directly in the face while up close to him as others push him out of the way, telling him to back up.
Hastie said he approached the officers, who he believed to be deployed by the federal government, because he wanted to tell them about the "horrifying" things American soldiers were tasked with while abroad that he says people don't know about.
"I stood next to a ditch in Vietnam, and we murdered 170 Vietnamese people", he yelled.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/28/us/portland-protests-vietnam-veteran-pepper-spray/index.html
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