The photo that encapsulates Turkey’s protests and the severe police crackdown

Why did the police need so many armored men to pepper spray a young woman in the face?

via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/03/the-photo-that-encapsulates-turkeys-protests-and-the-severe-police-crackdown/?wprss=rss_world

In a bit of final, dark irony, the photographer who took this photo, Osman Orsal, was himself injured by the police crackdown. The next day, while covering the escalating clashes between protesters and police, Orsal was hit in the head by a tear gas canister