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GiD things is a blogspot for students studying the Graphics, Illustration and Digital Media specialism on the Leeds College of Art Foundation Diploma in Art & Design course. This blog exists to highlight contemporary designers and their practises which are relevant to ongoing studies and topics investigated throughout the course.

Tuesday 13 December 2011

Pepper spraying cop


This is a photograph of a US police man, casually pepper spraying protesting students.
















Read more about it here...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/23/pepper-spraying-cop-photoshop-justice?INTCMP=SRCH

http://peppersprayingcop.tumblr.com/

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