Slight tangent on this thread here for a moment, but I just want to send out some love to CP right now. I realize that there are a lot of differing opinions here, there are arguments and disagreements, even in this thread there have been some heated exchanges.
But I just made the mistake of glancing in on a Penguins message board that I'll sometimes check, and in their thread regarding this, they're lauding the NYPD officer who barreled into protesters. "Good for him. They didn't give him any choice."
In my neighborhood, in my city, in my county close to downtown Pittsburgh it is a pretty blue area. Relatively diverse population. But man, the minute you get a little bit past the inner suburbs, it's a wasteland of some of the worst kind of Trump supporters.
So for all that we have arguments and different viewpoints here, I'm glad that at least it seems that we all here can see clearly where police are overstepping their bounds, where they're abusing their authority, and we can all collectively be appalled by it, not lauding it as if protesters deserve to be run down in the streets.
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