So Called Protesters Taught Lesson By Police!

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Virescit Vulnere Virtus
Yes we all know right wingers enjoy authoritarian violence against citizens exercising their first amendment rights.
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Just as I thought. Nothing there about destroying things and beating up people in the First Amendment.
 

Box Ox

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I think their intent was to provoke police into committing violence. Not exactly a backfire when you get what you set out for.

Having to jump onto a police car en masse to make them actually do what you’re protesting they’re doing seems to weaken the authenticity of the protest.
 

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Virescit Vulnere Virtus
It’s the last 2 lines. Ttku. I know your worldview will have you believe all protestors are violent but that’s just the propaganda you consume.
You mean the line about PEACEABLY assembling and the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances? I don’t know what dictionary you’re using, but the ones I grew up with do not show violence and destroying property to have those definitions.
 

It will be fine

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You mean the line about PEACEABLY assembling and the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances? I don’t know what dictionary you’re using, but the ones I grew up with do not show violence and destroying property to have those definitions.
The vast majority of current protests are peaceful. The right wing focuses on the violence to distract from the issues raised and excuse police brutality in response. You are happy to accept that viewpoint because it fits your prior beliefs.
 

Old Man Jingles

Rat out of a cage


Winner! Chief of police said they did exactly what they were trained to do.
Police say the officers in the area were trying to redirect the marching protesters along a faster route back to the park where the rally was held earlier in the day. The scene, they say, escalated after one of the protesters busted out the cruiser’s back window.

“There is this loud crash or bang to the rear of the police car. And again in their mind, as according to our investigation, they believed they could be shot at, or were being fired upon and because of that they had to take quick, evasive action,” Police Chief James Craig told reporters Monday. “When you talk about training, if you run into an ambush situation the proper course is to get out for your safety and that is exactly what these officers opted to do.”

“We don’t know what broke the window – could have been a skateboard, could have been anything,” he added. “But whatever it was, it certainly created enough concern for the officers and their safety and to get out.”

Craig also said no officers were hurt in the incident and that the department wasn't aware of any other injuries.

He also said there were "repeated efforts by at least some of the 25 to 30 [protesters] to gain access to the inside of the car where the officers were located."
 

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Virescit Vulnere Virtus
The vast majority of current protests are peaceful. The right wing focuses on the violence to distract from the issues raised and excuse police brutality in response. You are happy to accept that viewpoint because it fits your prior beliefs.
So you’re saying the cops filmed themselves being surrounded and their car being vandalized? And they filmed themselves hitting the people who climbed on their vehicle and put it on the mainstream news?
 

It will be fine

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So you’re saying the cops filmed themselves being surrounded and their car being vandalized? And they filmed themselves hitting the people who climbed on their vehicle and put it on the mainstream news?
I’m saying you are starting with the presumption that police are always in the right. Was this crowd violent before the police arrived? I don’t know, don’t really care to seek out video an hour before the incident, doubt you do either. There’s a crowd in the street protesting police violence, police arrive knowing it will provoke the protestors, protestors assault the police car knowing it will provoke the police, police respond with violence. It’s like it’s staged and you take away for it the viewpoint you came in with.
 

vantexan

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The vast majority of current protests are peaceful. The right wing focuses on the violence to distract from the issues raised and excuse police brutality in response. You are happy to accept that viewpoint because it fits your prior beliefs.
Heard last week that over 800 cops have been injured in those "peaceful" protests. Some killed. How many businesses were burned across the country? How many people beaten in the streets, some killed? No big deal to you?
 

rod

Retired 23 years
The vast majority of current protests are peaceful. The right wing focuses on the violence to distract from the issues raised and excuse police brutality in response. You are happy to accept that viewpoint because it fits your prior beliefs.
The vast majority of current protesters don't have a clue what they are protesting about.
 
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