Where have we heard this excuse before?
I don't know. You seem pretty prone to fantasy.
BTW, they were so competent at doing their jobs that 90% of the charges against protestors are being dropped.
Your numbers are wrong, and you quite plainly don't understand how law enforcement works. In the given situation the police had two jobs (1) diffuse the riot situation (2) arrest law breakers. How exactly do you propose that the police go about not arresting individuals who are going to have their cases dismissed? Should these guys have gotten trials before they were arrested? Judging the police's competency based on successful convictions is just stupid.
Neither I nor anyone made that claim.
You statists are the ones doing just the opposite: equating free speech with burning things.
Your numbers are wrong
No. They are correct. There was an article posted here the other day to that effect.
How exactly do you propose that the police go about not arresting individuals who are going to have their cases dismissed? Should these guys have gotten trials before they were arrested? Judging the police's competency based on successful convictions is just stupid.
The attitude of the many members of NKVD was to apparently to arrest first, then distort the evidence as they saw fit to achieve a convinction. Fortunately, many private citizens had their own video cameras to set the record straight.
I can't find the thread here, but here is the article over on ar15.com: