Posted on 11/19/2011 2:52:50 PM PST by NetLiberty
The professionals are now involved. First they appear to be nice people who are concerned about thier country, you know joe next door tammy down the road all putting an innocent humanitarian face to the protest. Once they have everyones attention they give the order for the professionals to provoke a response from the police and the media is waiting in the wings to record every brutal minute of it. Oh the organizations invovled want this to turn into a greece event badly
I wouldn’t doubt that either. Like the guy who was “run over” by the motorcycle, sure he was.
From what I read earlier they were NOT peaceful protesters but were attempting to block the police from transporting protestors who had been arrested. So they were interfering with arrests already made. Cops had some choices: let the arrested go, bring out the billy clubs with limited police presence, jump in and hope none of those in this set up were waiting to kill a cop, etc or take the least dangerous, least violent method open for resolving the problem.
“Don’t know about all of you, but this is excessive and unnecessary police brutality. “
The “protestors” were informed that if they did not move, they would be sprayed.
They chose to stay, purposefully and after being fully informed.
If you choose civil disobedience, be prepared for the consequences.
I'd bring in one of those tracked vehicles ~ they are quite impressive up close and you don't need to go all the way into squarshing someone to convince the others they should move.
I'd still like to know the whole sequence of events. It's actually very unusual for the cops to just come up out of the blue and spray pepper spray on you. Frankly, in most of your more totalitarian societies they NEVER do that ~ they just beat you to death, or maybe shoot you. In Syria they'd all been dead Fur Shur.
So, we are talking about U.C. Davis ~ I'd think the cops would have started by firing potatoes at them from a Spud Gun.
Oh dear. Someone got sprayed with a vegetable mist. What a calamity. What an, um, moral outrage.
Like I said they will now spend millions, those paupers, to send their brownshirt ranks to DC to lay seige to the Capitol building for days. They want a confrontation. They will demand that the GOP lay down and pass everything Obama wants.
That is all this was. A shakedown and brownshirt campaign for Obama2012.
I look at this as the police giving them one last chance to disperse. I don't think they wanted to arrest all those people and thought a shot of OC would help. They did get a couple to move.
I heard about this incident on FOX radio.
The police repeatedly told these so-called protestors that force would be used against them if they didn’t stop blocking the sidewalk.
I’m tired of hearing about the “rights” of these protestors.....what about the rights of the OTHER students who needed to use the sidewalk to get to their classes?
The only thing "wrong" is that it took so long for the city to move these people out of the way. Why is their right to protest more important than the right of the people who need to access the same area, the businesses that are obstructed, and the right of anyone walking the street to be free from intimidation?
You're not espousing "conservative principles" when you defend the rights of a self-appointed nobility to force everyone else pay for the damage they're doing and to be afraid to walk the public streets for fear of these, "peaceful protesters".
They wouldn’t expect that
This was acceptable force used by the police for willful non-compliance to a lawful order. Much more extreme force could have been used, but chemical sprays are way down the list of possible methods.
Would you have preferred rubber bullets or water cannons? Pepper spray is hellaciously painful, but ultimately harmless.
No, it is not. [Compare this to Syria]
Are you sure that you are on the right forum? You would probanly feel more at home at DU.
Only lazy leftist drug addicts have legal rights. The rest of us have no rights, only a legal obligation to accommodate their every whim.
Squad Leader: Simon Phoenix! Lie down with your hands behind your back.
Simon Phoenix: What’s this? Six of you. Such nice, tidy uniforms. Oh I’m so scared!
[the Police Officers look at each other]
Simon Phoenix: What you guys don’t have sarcasm anymore?
[Police Officer talks to his automated assistant]
Squad Leader: Maniac has responded with a scornful remark.
automated assistant: Approach, and repeat ultimatum in an even firmer tone of voice. Add the words, “or else”.
20 years down the road it will be:
Mr. EGPWS sentenced to death after returning to his home and after finding a peaceful protester had entered didn't allow him to remain sitting in his living room LazyBoy and protest for the rights of those unable to afford a homestead to get a taxpayer paid for homestead.
How long were these people told they were breaking the law and had to move?
If never told and they did that I would consider that a reason to get people fired.
If they were told for a while to move out of there and they defied the rules of that area and still stayed and got prayed, well what could they expect?
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