Portland Police Claim "Mace" Didn't Contribute to Burning Man's Death

The City of Portland, Oregon Is buzzing this morning with the news that a Portland Police officer mistakenly doused a man, who had set himself on fire, with huge amounts of pepper spray, or mace, as he flailed in what turned out to be his last, dying, moments of life.

The Portland Police Bureau is calling the matter a terrible, tragic, mistake - albeit a mistake all the same. Portland Police Chief, Rosie Sizer, has personally come out in the media to say that she has consulted with high-level officials in the Portland Fire Bureau who have assured her that drenching the Kansas man with the large volume of what she refers to as a water based propellant in no way contributed to his demise.

Although it is well known fact that Portland Police Chief Rosie Sizer is a cold, heartless, drone of Portland, Oregon's long troubled law enforcement machine; a machine that is often times held up by members of neighboring community law enforcement agencies as being the most needlessly brutal and "trigger happy", it is not any easier to bear the sight of her rearing her emotionless, politically spinning head to try and mitigate the horrific damages that have once again been committed by one of Portland, Oregon's "thin blue line".

Hearing her state for the record that the officer who committed this atrocity did so because she mistook a canister of "Mace" for a fire extinguisher simply adds insult to this inexcusable, and fatal injury.

There might be any number of explanations for what happened, seemingly, at this time, out of sight of any witnesses. None of them, you can be certain, will be anything other than an insult to anyone trying to make rational sense of the matter.

Unfortunately, this will probably turn out to be another example of the apathy, if not the absolute disregard for human life that continues to define a large portion of the otherwise brave, heroic, and honest men and women who put their lives on the line every day as Portland Police.

Just for the record, Chief Sizer, the pepper spray did contribute to the death of the man from Kansas. At the very least, it ensured that after he supposedly lit himself on fire, which is an odd form of so-called suicide in its own right, he died in one of the most excruciatingly painful ways imaginable - having the flames that engulfed him fanned by the sweeping motions used while he was being soaked with pepper spray by a public servant who's purpose was unequivocally to protect and serve.

It should make you sick, Chief Sizer. It would if you were a human with a soul.