The RCMP officer dubbed Sergeant Pepper at the 1997 APEC protests in Vancouver said he was well-acquainted with the effects of pepper spray. Staff Sergeant Hugh Stewart told the APEC inquiry on Oct. 26 that he was sprayed dozens of times during preparation of a Mountie training manual on the spray. Stewart used pepper spray to clear a road of protesters at the University of BC to make way for an APEC motorcade.

Date: 1999-10-26
Placeline: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 21 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << I've been exposed to OC spray intentionally in excess of fifty times I've been exposed through out over sprays, well over a hundred times, including, in preparation of this document I, use myself as a, test subject with OC spray twenty times before I wrote this document >>

Clip ID: 19991026CPCN001