“tried to shutdown”
Not to pick nits, but isn’t “shutdown” a noun? Where as “to shut down” is a verb phrase? Maybe that’s why the plan backfired.
Well, some of our Brit cousins still have a little of you know what is left in their systems.
England
Leicester is Lester.
Does anyone know why the bobbies would have gone into a situation like that without anything more than reflective vests for protection?
Who thought halfassed marching, and with multiple television cameras going with, who actually thought this was a good idea? The ‘authorities should have just kept going.
More effective to set up large speakers and pipe in some Lawrence Welk, “anna one, anna two”. No hassle.
But all the cops were wearing masks! What an embarrassing spectacle for the cops this was.
interesting that it seemed to be a majority white crowd.
Looks mostly peaceful.
The hooligans were quite well behaved. Only saw one bloody copper.
There’s far more of us than them.
The problem is, we have been too conditioned to listen to authority to fight back when the authority is clearly in the wrong.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was right when he said that they should have fought back and deserved what they got for not doing it.
A little backstory as to what lead up to the confrontation would be helpful. “Party” these days means anything from clinking champagne glasses to a full-on riot. That said, if the cops were trying to diffuse/disperse the situation instead of escalating it then they need to go back to cop school because that was just wrong on many levels.
Excellent
Of course they triple their numbers to force people into 1984-style compliance.
If that happened here, about a 100 stormtroopers would show up as if they were the 300 Spartans trying to hole back the whole Persian army.
That was awesome!
Fourteen minutes of absolute hilarity.
I love it when the creampuffs try to get in between the protagonists in some pathetic attempt at “peace, love, and happiness”...