Taste of their own medicine

Re: Cadets Used As ‘Lab Rats’ In Pepper Spray Study, July 23. Regarding the use of cadets as “lab rats” for testing pepper spray, while in cadet school, bravo. They are in their seventh week, not their first so they know they have probably made the cut. Pepper spray and stun guns will probably not ever be used or tested on full-fledged officers, so this is as close as they will get. I am not an advocate of civil disobedience, but this sort of “taste your own medicine” approach when using these products might have spared poor Robert Dziekanski his awful fate.

Nick Moar, Calgary.