Turkey = US = Turkey

Police spray toxic material on unarmed, peaceful protestors in Turkey:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/05/woman-in-red-turkey-protests

Police spray toxic material on unarmed, peaceful protestors in the US:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/09/20/161476207/no-criminal-charges-for-pepper-spray-cop-or-other-officers

And it's all LEGAL, except of course that the unarmed, peaceful protestors often go to jail.

Who is imitating whom? Turkey or the US?

Or is this just another example of how cops are cops, no matter where you find them?

Turkish PM Erdogan is alleged to have said the following:

"Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off."

I think he and Obama ad-Dajjal got off the democracy streetcar a long time ago.