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Originally Posted by FlameOn
There have been months of videos already, I just pulled up two I saw this morning.
Did you even watch the first clip? - Riot cops advance in phalanx formation towards protester positions.
- Buses stop behind cops as cops are in the way
- Cops move out of the way
- Bus 1 accelerates from behind the riot cops and rams into the left protester barricade
- Bus 2 does the same on the right and does not slow down at all driving through a molotov
If they were trying to get away from the fire bombs, they could have simply turned around. If they were planning anything other than ramming through the protesters at the blockade, the mini buses wouldn't have stopped after the cops and accelerated immediately after the riot cop formation parted.
Vehicular homicide and attempted murder are a thing. Is that not a crime if police do it? Even on the off chance that no one was actually hurt, laws have to be applied equally. If you are going to charge protesters with public property damage then there is enough here to open up an investigation into police misconduct. Months of protests, has there been one even cursory attempt into possible police misconduct? Wait, the police have vehemently refused oversight into their actions.
As the UN and Amnesty International have pointed out, it's the government and police's responsibility to attempt to deescalate any potentially hostile situation involving civil unrest. There have been zero attempts to deescalate (not even verbal), only attempts to escalate. They are actively preventing injured protesters from medical assistance and arresting medical staff trying to treat the injured.
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I was living in Toronto during the G20 protests. Those protests were basically harmless for the most part. Just hippies. You know, not like the HK protestors throwing petrol bombs and bricks.
Let's see how the police handled that.
Imagine if they were acting like the HK protestors.