Legalizing pepper spray would give ‘false sense of security,’ experts warn

Analysis The sexual assault trial of auto parts billionaire Frank Stronach drew near to its conclusion Monday as the defence savagely characterized the case as a disastrous inversion of the presumption of innocence, starting with a “negligent and reckless investigation.” Defence counsel Leora Shemesh argued in her closing that the politics of the #MeToo movement improperly tainted the police investigation, with investigators succumbing to “tunnel vision” and the “unconscious filtering of evidence” to ignore anything that did not fit with Stronach’s presumed guilt. The modern...