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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Absolutely unfortunately the idiots who riot almost cause the other sheep to join in and the entire protest becomes a problem.
It becomes very difficult for the police who are vastly outnumbered to become selective, their mandate if anything violent or destructive happens during a protest is to shut the protest down and clear the street.
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I agree that these protests, and the element that they attract, put the police in a very difficult position of balancing people's Charter rights and enforcing the Criminal Code/protecting property etc.
Anyway, I guess the point I was trying to make (albeit clumsily) is that I don't have any problem with people taking to the streets to try and make their voice heard. Indeed, especially in this day and age of apathy and exclusion from the political process, I think it should be applauded, even if I don't particularly agree with what that voice is calling for (as I don't in this case).