It doesn’t matter whether or not the overall protests had turned violent or if everyone else were peaceful. Anyone in the USA who throws a molotov cocktail at the police will be shot. You know that. Stop talking around the issue.
Heavy attacks on the police with molotovs were seen in numerous videos by Dec., maybe it happened before too, IDK. Officers were on fire and the people who did it were standing a few meters away. The police simply retreated and smothered the fires. If that scenario played out in the USA, everyone in sight who appeared to be with the fire throwers would have been shot at by the police. They would have pumped bullet after bullet into them long after they were dead because “you can’ take any chances.”
Recently, some neo-hippie losers who were protesting in the US got 5-8 year sentences simply for making molotov cocktails that were not used. The prosecutor wanted MUCH longer sentences.
I see you’ve conceded my point. /s
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Your analogies are irrelevant to the current situation in Ukraine.
Say Mexican (Russian) nationals arrive in your town, put up a big Mexican (Russian) flag and shoot your neighbors dead. Then the local police refuse to take your 911.
Will you will then buy the Mexicans a Costco giftcard? Of course you wouldn’t.
Neither will Ukrainians when Russians kill them. They will defend themselves against foreign national unlawful combatants just as you would.