Board says bar bouncers don't need city permission to carry pepper spray, but they do need to be really, really careful about using it

Board says bar bouncers don't need city permission to carry pepper spray, but they do need to be really, really careful about using it

The Boston Licensing Board yesterday issued a warning to the Dot Tavern, 840 Dorchester Avenue in Dorchester, for the way a bouncer unleashed his own personal pepper spray on a couple of unruly guys waiting in line outside, not because the bar didn't have permission to have bouncers carry the stinging substance but because the bar's own surveillance video suggested he overreacted.