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Originally Posted by Clever_Iggy
You could hear on the live stream: "Stop throwing objects at the police. You will be arrested." Barricades were immediately overturned and protestors are attempting to flip over police cars and have started fires. All according to CTV reporters. If true, I'm not sure the police are the ones escalating things.
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But the police sure set up the situation in a way that would be most likely to cause problems. Again--why announce the verdict at 8pm on a clear, unseasonably warm evening? Why would you not announce this midday? When you can see the protesters and there isn't the cover of night to make it easy for idiots to rile up an already tense crowd.
Announcing this late in the evening, with hours of buildup, days after announcing you were calling in the National Guard, all of this was going to raise the tension level of the protesters--the authorities have not handled any of this situation well, from the shooting onward.