{"id":31727,"date":"2015-06-23T02:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=31727"},"modified":"2015-06-20T21:07:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T01:07:53","slug":"being-skunked-takes-on-a-new-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/06\/23\/being-skunked-takes-on-a-new-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Being skunked&#8221; takes on a new meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <em>Defence One<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2015\/04\/americas-police-will-fight-next-riot-these-stink-bombs\/111430\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Tucker<\/a> looks at an &#8220;improved&#8221; stink bomb now available to American police departments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As protestors and police officers clash on the streets of Baltimore and other divided cities, some police departments are stockpiling a highly controversial weapon to control civil unrest.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called Skunk, a type of \u201cmalodorant,\u201d or in plainer language, a foul-smelling liquid. Technically nontoxic but incredibly disgusting, it has been described as a cross between \u201cdead animal and human excrement.\u201d Untreated, the smell lingers for weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli Defense Forces developed Skunk in 2008 as a crowd-control weapon for use against Palestinians. Now Mistral, a company out of Bethesda, Md., says they are providing it to police departments in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Skunk is composed of a combination of baking soda and amino acids, Mistral general manager Stephen Rust said at the National Defense Industrial Association\u2019s Armament Systems Forum on April 20. \u201cYou can drink it, but you wouldn\u2019t want to,\u201d said Rust, a retired U.S. Army project manager.<\/p>\n<p>The Israelis first used it in 2008 to disperse Palestinians protesting in the West Bank. A BBC video shows its first use in action, sprayed by a hose, a system that has come to be known as the \u201ccrap cannon.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Defence One, Patrick Tucker looks at an &#8220;improved&#8221; stink bomb now available to American police departments: As protestors and police officers clash on the streets of Baltimore and other divided cities, some police departments are stockpiling a highly controversial weapon to control civil unrest. It\u2019s called Skunk, a type of \u201cmalodorant,\u201d or in plainer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,53,15,13],"tags":[291,471,98,720],"class_list":["post-31727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-politics","category-technology","category-usa","tag-israel","tag-nonlethalweapons","tag-police","tag-protest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8fJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31728,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31727\/revisions\/31728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}