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(06-04-2020, 02:30 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I heard someone telling their tale of protesting in southern California. He described a scene in which police had their backs to and were ignoring looters and focusing their attention on peaceful protesters. He describe ways in which the crowd of protesters tried to cooperate with police and it resulted in them being hemmed in and gassed. I don't know how much of his tale was true, but if it was it is a disturbing image of a police force attacking individuals for exercising their rights and ignoring people breaking the law in order to do so.

Unfortunately that disturbing image is being seen more and more across the US. It's one thing to react to looters this way, but the police in many jurisdictions are attacking clearly peaceful protests. Sometimes it looks like it is for sport or to release aggression and frustration, much in the same way that rioters are venting. In Alabama, an officer walked around a park randomly spraying people. In one video, the cops shoot a young man in the face with a rubber bullet, tell people to bring him over for medical care, and then fire on those people as they bring him over. In NYC, they barricaded the subway to prevent people from getting home before curfew and stole bikes. In NC, we saw them destroy medical supplies. In one city, they gassed the protestors and refused to let the media who was standing with the cops leave to get away from the gas. Media members in media vest being shot at or beaten for no reason other than being there. 

It's almost like these protests were right...