Official Protest Thread

[Pyro as Bill]

sethnintendo said:

sundin13 said:

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.

You should look at the videos of Spanish police attacking Catalonians because they wanted to vote. There's videos of French police using non-lethal weapons designed to be aimed at the legs accidentally being fired at point blank range to people's faces. UK police killed a 'protester' who was just stood around trying to work out how to get home from work because all the streets were closed off.