Ok so there’s a conspiracy theory going around that this woman was faking her injury with an onion.

This is likely false. Onions are a folk remedy for pepper spray.

The theory, which has some merit, is that since onions make you cry, it helps flush the irritants from your eyes with natural tears.
However, this is not recommended as a treatment for pepper spray and is ultimately not very effective.
Pepper spray, tear gas, mace, CN, HC, and other agents are best removed with a flush of water or, if you have the proper mixture, saline. Nothing else.
We do not do chemistry in our eyeballs. We are not putting chemicals in our eyes. We are not putting produce in our eyes. We are removing the chemicals with safe, neutral water.
For more information, see here: https://t.co/5Y8kL1QCrT
I know you will try to be clever by suggesting milk or LAW or apple cider vinegar but you are wrong
Once again, we are not trying to bind anything, particularly things our patients may be allergic to, to capsaicin molecules we cannot be certain are present in the irritant.
There are at least half a dozen different chemical irritants in common use and unless the cop who sprayed you also gave you the MSDS, you flush with water.

And if they did give you the MSDS, it would tell you to flush with water.
When you are in a chemistry lab, there is no milk flush station. There is no vinegar flush station. They do not keep a supply of fresh onions.

There is a water flush station because what we flush our eyes with is water.

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Mueller's officially end his investigation all on his own and he's gonna say he found no evidence of Trump campaign/Russian collusion during the 2016 election.

Democrats & DNC Media are going to LITERALLY have nothing coherent to say in response to that.

Mueller's team was 100% partisan.

That's why it's brilliant. NOBODY will be able to claim this team of partisan Democrats didn't go the EXTRA 20 MILES looking for ANY evidence they could find of Trump campaign/Russian collusion during the 2016 election

They looked high.

They looked low.

They looked underneath every rock, behind every tree, into every bush.

And they found...NOTHING.

Those saying Mueller will file obstruction charges against Trump: laughable.

What documents did Trump tell the Mueller team it couldn't have? What witnesses were withheld and never interviewed?

THERE WEREN'T ANY.

Mueller got full 100% cooperation as the record will show.