O.C. Deputy Charged with Pepper Spraying Teen's Pizza

LA Times ^ | August 2, 2013 | Anh Do

[chrisinoc]

A sheriff's deputy in Orange County will be arraigned Monday for allegedly pepper-spraying a teenager's pizza during a traffic stop.

The teen, authorities said, and a group of friends later became sick after eating the pepper-spray tainted pizza.

Authorities charged Juan Tavera, 30, with one misdemeanor count of assault or battery by a public officer. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of one year in jail, according to the Orange County district attorney's office.

[Libloather]

pepper-spray tainted pizza

I smell a new food chain of stores.

[null and void]

If you or I did this, what would we be charged with?

[slumber1]

No justice no piece?

[Slump Tester]

I saw a prison guard spray his sandwich once. (I was doing a service call on a computer there.) I don’t get it. If it was so hot as to make them sick, how/why did they eat it?

[MeshugeMikey]

whats this I hear about pepperoni spray?

Oh..okay,, never mind

[unixfox]

The Police State marches on.

[PapaBear3625]

Tavera is accused of spotting a pizza on the back seat of the victim's car and then pepper spraying it without the teen noticing.

Any non-cop who put a toxic substance on a cop's food would go to prison for a long time. If true, this cop needs to be fired and arrested.

Then again, it's not impossible that the teen had a bad experience with the cop, pepper sprayed his own pizza, and then reported it. Chemical analysis should determine if the pepper spray was the kind cops use.

[School of Rational Thought]

No justice no piece?

No justice, no pizza?

[longfellow]

He should’ve thrown the pie in the officers face.

[bigbob]

When the moon hits you eye like a big pizza pie
That’s amore

But when the pie makes you cry and the cop is at fault
That’s assault

[chrisinoc]

The incident occurred 11 months ago and turned over to the OCDA’s office. So it is very likely the evidence was tested and the cop arrested.

[chrisinoc]

If you or I did this, what would we be charged with?

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Felony poisoning.

[null and void]

Product tapering, assault, mayhem, attempted murder, civil rights violations (thought crime depending on ethnicities of all involved of course!), improper disposal of chemical agents, and probably a dozen or so other offenses.

It certainly wouldn't be a single misdemeanor charge, would it?

And we certainly wouldn't be on paid vacation leave for the duration either.

[Daffynition]

[ctdonath2]

I’ve long wanted to whip up a batch of pepper spray buffalo wings.