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Originally Posted by wittynickname
"What are the police supposed to do?"
Don't escalate an already volatile situation. Be a professional and keep your temper in check. Don't pepper spray or shoot rubber bullets or beat someone with a baton because they told you to go eff yourself or called you a pig.
Don't tug a man's mask down and pepper spray him directly in the face. Don't shoot paint bullets at someone standing on their own property clearly posing no harm to you or the other 20-some officers tromping down the street. Don't pepper spray a member of the press in the face. Don't shoot rubber bullets at members of the press simply doing their jobs. Don't arrest members of the press who have every right to be there. Don't pepper spray people in when they are actively walking away from you and are clearly not a threat. Don't attempt to run protesters over with a giant SUV.
There are any number of things the police are supposed to do. Abusing their power is not one of those things.
These are the people we are supposed to entrust to enforce the rules of our society. When they are flagrantly ignoring those rules themselves, why should we respect them?
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Don’t escalate a volatile situation, just stand idly by and watch cities being burned to the ground for another night.
The people calling them names and getting shot with rubber bullets and pepper spray are breaking the law by taking part in an unlawful assembly and being out after curfew.
How do they know the person standing on their own property and refusing to listen to their requests to step inside poses no threat to them? How do they know that???
People “actively walking away” who have been told to leave for hours and who are breaking the law just by being there!
How long do you want this to go on?