Official Protest Thread

[sethnintendo]

sundin13 said:

sethnintendo said:
Cops have a right to defend themselves and respond in force if they are being assaulted. They are being assaulted with bricks thrown and other weapons in some instances. They can respond with force against those people.

However, they shouldn't respond in force to people that are just standing there peacefully protesting.

If someone is throwing bricks at an officer, the officer has the right to use the minimum force necessary to eliminate that threat.

That does not mean that if someone in a crowd throws a brick, the police have the right to punch everyone in that crowd.

It also does not mean that if someone throws a brick, the police get to beat that person up.

Note: This is just to be clear, not an implication that you said anything counter to this.

Agreed with everything you said.  The entire crowd is assumed guilty sometimes when most of them are peaceful.   Instead of focusing solely on the criminals they lump everyone together sometimes.   No excuse either to be hitting people in head with rubber bullets and bean bags.  They can be potentially deadly just getting hit in stomach and aiming for head is uncalled for. 

I believe European cops are better trained at handling these situations than cops here in USA.  I watched a few seasons of British show Caught on Camera and they seem to be able to arrest criminals a lot better than cops here.  Sure they have their incidents (far fewer than over here probably) but I was generally impressed on how they conduct themselves compared to cops here.  Perhaps England should send a few trainers over here and educate our police force in better methods.