They shoot lockdown protesters with rubber bullets in Melbourne, Australia which can main and kill and you play the part of the enraged mangin. How GOPe of you.
They shoot lockdown protesters with rubber bullets in Melbourne, Australia which can main and kill and you play the part of the enraged mangin. How GOPe of you.
When protesters attack police, I do support the right of police to defend themselves.
Peaceful protesters were not shot.
People who attacked the police were dealt with by less lethal rounds.
From what I see on the news, in America, your cops would have probably just killed them.
I live here. I know what is actually going on.
People like you have been fed propaganda and just swallow the shit and call it sugar.
There have been two instances I am aware of where I believe police went too far in terms of a physical response.
There have been far more where the police have been attacked.
There’s a reason why more police have been injured in these protests than protesters.
The police have also been horribly politicised by the state government - that’s a separate issue and the type of issue I’d like to be able to focus on rather than have to waste my time dealing with idiots who think people who throw bricks at police should be treated like innocent victims.
Oh, and when I see Americans fighting in the streets rather than just whinging online because they believe their last election was stolen, I might start taking the allegations that Australians are wimps for not constantly rioting a bit more seriously.
Your whole system of democracy has supposedly been stolen from you according to significant numbers of people on this site. But despite all your guns very few of you seem to be doing anything particularly obvious about it.
I can come to one of two conclusions. Americans are absolute talk-a-lot-do-nothing wimps. Having served alongside Americans in peace and war, I don’t believe that is true.
Or that many Americans are aware, like many Australians are (including myself) that there are other ways to deal with these matters besides fighting in the streets.
I’m focused on the things that I actually think will change things here rather than symbolic protests that might look dramatic in the media but really don’t accomplish much in the long run.
When all else fails, you may have to fight. If we reach that stage, I’ll do so. But I don’t believe we’re there yet.