Samantha Hudson accuses the Police of using pepper spray against her during the strike: "I was close to drowning"

Samantha Hudson reported this Wednesday that she had been sprayed with pepper spray by agents of the National Police during the charges on Gran Vía in Madrid, during the mobilizations called for the general strike for housing. The artist and content creator was accompanied by María Barrier and actress Laura Weissmahr, who were also affected by the police intervention and needed health care.

With her face red and still shocked, Hudson reconstructed for La Séptima the events that preceded her encounter with the agents: "There were a lot of people. There was a moment when you couldn't be there anymore. A girl fell to the ground, they kept pushing and started hitting people. We stayed on the front line with our arms crossed and chanting slogans, resisting."

With obvious indignation, he continued his testimony, stopping at the decisive moment. "Then, we saw that they had taken one boy into custody and another was being beaten to the ground. It was a devastating scene, he was having a really bad time. We went to look out to ask them to stop and an officer came and pointed pepper spray at our face," he said.

The impact of the intervention was still very present in Hudson, who has conveyed the anxiety he experienced to the aforementioned media: "It was horrible. It got into my eyes, my nose, my mouth... I was on the verge of drowning. You don't understand anything, there is the crowd behind you... I had a lot of anxiety, it's unfair," he lamented.

The victim concluded with a series of questions: "Are you so upset that we cut off the Gran Vía? Are you so upset that we are going on strike one day? Is this police repression necessary? They have opened a boy's head, we are not doing anything more than exercising a basic and fundamental right."

Samantha Hudson, María Barrier and Laura Weissmahr, treated after the incident

Hudson, Barrier and Weissmahr have also criticized what happened in a video broadcast on social networks, insisting on the circumstances of the police action. "We were on the front line without using violence and they threw us to the sidewalk. We couldn't go any further back," they said.

For his part, Barrier stated: "They sprayed us directly into our eyes, ears and respiratory tract." A description to which Hudson has added: "To the face directly and we couldn't see any of the three."