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...city that prides itself as one of the most liberal in the country, one headline this summer was particularly jolting. Top training officers in the Cambridge Police Department said they taught new recruits that pepper spray was less effective on members of certain Hispanic ethnic groups because of their alleged predilection for spicy foods...
...officer, who asked that his name not be used, said that the Chronicle stories about pepper spray and others reported false details--and didn't accurately reflect what officers were taught...
Frank T. Pasquarello, the CPD's spokesperson, said that although the pepper spray story "got blown out of proportion," it had no effect on morale...
...said that he has received no criticism from city officials over the department's handling of the pepper spray incident...
...upside down in a kayak in San Francisco Bay, fighting panic. I'm not sure I can hold my breath much longer. I yank away at the tab that attaches a rubber spray skirt--and me--to the two-person boat, the bottom of whose hull is bobbing on the surface...