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A Maine company that was given an Innovator of the Year award is facing criticism from civil rights advocates about the potential misuse of its vehicle-mounted pepper spray device. The device from F3 Defense in South Portland can carry 18.5 ounces of pepper spray 鈥?more than 30 times more than what is carried in a typical handheld pepper spray device 鈥?and was inspired by Black Lives Matter protesters, according to the Portland Press Herald.The companys CEO, Michael Mercer, said during a presentation to the Manufacturers Association of Maine, which gave his company the award, that the device can be used to help drivers respond in a nonlethal way against crowds, according to the Portland paper.Mercer said that while he understands concerns about misuse of the product, it could offer substantial protection for vulnerable drivers, such as women truck drivers or people facing carjackings, the Portland newspaper reported. However, the Maine ACLU is worried about the way that it could be used at protests. Civil rights demonstrators already have a problem with violence from police and counter-protesters; they dont need the additional worry of motorists indiscriminately spraying them with pepper spray while they are stanley termo fighting for their ri adidas samba adidas ghts, chief council of the Maine ACLU Zach Heiden told the Portland Press Herald. Other anti-riot responses, such as rubber bullets and firing o adidas samba schuhe f pepper spray canisters into crowds of protestors, have led to injuries and deaths in the past. Heiden Gasi Fitzpatrick helps UMaine rushing attack come alive at Colgate
There are two more additions to the seemingly never-ending stream of Stephen King works being adapted into movies and TV series, both announced last week. Sleeping Beauties, the 2017 novel co-written by King and his son, owala water bottle Owen King, will be developed into a TV series by AMC. Owen King will write a pilot script for the network, Entertainment Weekly reported Wednesday.On Thursday, it was announced by Deadline that Rest Stop, a short story written by Stephen King tha stanley shop t was first published in the December 2003 issue of Esquire magazine, will be adapted into a film by Alex Ross Perry, who recently directed the film Her Smell, starring Elizabeth Moss, in theaters now.Theres no word on when either adaptation would reach screens. Sleeping Beauties is about a mysterious sleeping sickness that starts spreading across the globe, which causes women to fall into a deep sleep and become encased in cocoons. If the women are woken up, they enter into a homicidal rage. At a womens prison in Appalachia and in the towns surrounding the prison, this leads to chaos. Rest Stop, first published in Esquire and later reprinted in Kings 2008 short story collection, Just After Sunset, tells the story of author John Dykstra, who writes under the pen name Rick Hardin, who stops into a rest area in Florida and encounters a couple arguing in the bathroom next to his, which escalates into violence.In addition to writing and directing owala tumbler the rock n roll drama Her Smell, Alex Ross Perry also wrote and d |
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