by Alph » Fri Oct 28, 2011 8:05 pm
You heard it here first. Nonlethal crowd control techniques are an excessive reaction from police officers having rocks thrown at them.
I don't know about the rest of you, but if I started throwing rocks at a group of police officers I would expect to be tackled, handcuffed, and imprisoned for several years for the assault. If someone was throwing rocks at a group I was in and a police officer saw it I would expect the rock thrower to be tackled, handcuffed, and imprisoned for several years for the assault. That is considerably more violent than tear gas and flash-bang grenades. Do you think that the woman in the above news clip would expect anything less if someone starting throwing rocks at her? Or would she find that 'unjustified?' I imagine that she would find tear gas and grenades that make loud noises to be perfectly justified, even restrained, in that situation.
But maybe I'm wrong. I propose that to find out what the protestors' true beliefs on the subject are, we should prevent the police from employing tear gas against the OWS and, instead, just make them throw rocks in response to rock throwing. Surely that can't be an excessive response, since throwing rocks is apparently a valid response to... err... the local law authority telling the protestors to obey the law and disperse until the next morning instead of camping illegally overnight?
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Alph on Fri Oct 28, 2011 8:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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