OWS UC Davis Pepper Spray - What Really Happened

[Mr Khan]

Kasz216 said:

Mr Khan said:

While you have a point to a degree, you are assuming that it is just for police to have the ability to pursue arrests using whatever means they wish, so long as they give warning. The goal of restraint in the administration of justice begets a practical mandate that law enforcement officials be no more violent than the individuals they are trying to apprehend: only violence should be met with violence, of any sort, but this examines the crime holistically.

Clearly it is alright to tackle someone who is actively trying to stop you from pursuing a violent criminal even if all that person is doing is standing in the way, since its a matter of abetting a violent crime, but nonviolent protestors abetting other nonviolent protestors should not be dealt with by violence no matter how obstinate they get.

Violence should only be met with violence?   If that was the case then there would be no way to remove peaceful protestors, no matter where they are, be it blocking traffic, or a hospital or whatever.

Dragging the protestors from their illegal spaces afterall is inherently violent and can cause some pain and even possibe longterm damage.  Which is what makes the pepperspray incidient even more confusing.  Sure it hurts like a bitch, but the possible permament after affects are less likely or prevelent then what's used already.

Additionally, whether they intentionally block the way of the police due to theif, murderer, protestor or tax cheat... they are committing the same crime.  Resisitng Arrest. (You can be charged with it by trying to prevent soemone elses arrest.)

Resisting Arrest is listed under Active Resistance.

Once they decided to try and block the arrests they technically weren't passive resisters anymore, but active ones.  Regardless of not trying to physically attack anyone.

I am speaking not in legal terms, but in moral ones in this case. Those who have the conviction to protest in a purely non-violent way should never be put down by nonviolent means, even if it is for the good of the society to remove said persons from the scene to restore normal working order in the short term