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        <title><![CDATA[Pepper spray, ‘Black Lives Matter’ shirts become Amazon best sellers]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Protest gear is selling like hotcakes on Amazon.</p><p>Pepper spray and &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; merchandise have become some of the e-tailer&#8217;s best sellers amid raging demonstrations over the police killing of George Floyd.</p><p>A <strong>pocket-sized bottle of pepper spray</strong> with a keychain attachment was the top-selling item in Amazon&#8217;s &#8220;Sports &amp; Outdoors&#8221; section as of early Tuesday afternoon, suggesting increased demand for self-defense gear as some protests turned violent.</p><p>Personal safety brand Sabre also sells the keychain in a <strong>bundle</strong> with a miniature stun gun — a $22.60 package that ranked 50th on the Sports &amp; Outdoors list as of midday Tuesday. A different, rechargeable stun gun sold by Vipertek ranked 40th.</p><p>Other categories suggest shoppers are supporting protesters&#8217; calls for racial justice with their wallets. &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221;-related T-shirts, for instance, accounted for seven of Amazon&#8217;s top 15 &#8220;novelty&#8221; clothing items.</p><p>A <strong>shirt</strong> in the No. 3 spot reads &#8220;I can&#8217;t breathe,&#8221; which Floyd said as Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin <strong>held his knee on his neck</strong>. The same item recently ranked 41st in the broader overall clothing category.</p><p>Amazon&#8217;s two <strong>best-selling books</strong> on Tuesday were about racism: Robin DiAngelo&#8217;s &#8220;White Fragility&#8221; and Ibram X. Kendi&#8217;s &#8220;How to Be an Antiracist.&#8221; &#8220;The New Jim Crow,&#8221; Michelle Alexander&#8217;s treatise on mass incarceration, sat at No. 10.</p><p>Amazon&#8217;s best-seller rankings are updated hourly reflect its most popular products based on sales, according to its website. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.</p><p>The Seattle-based colossus <strong>joined other tech giants</strong> this week in addressing Floyd&#8217;s death, saying it stood with black employees and customers &#8220;in the fight against systemic racism and injustice.&#8221; Some commenters on Twitter questioned the sincerity of the <a href="https://twitter.com/amazon/status/1267140211861073927" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">statement,</a> citing concerns about how Amazon treats its warehouse workers.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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