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Kettling is very typically used for mass arrests, even if charges are not filed against everyone arrested. This has happened in Oakland, where I live, multiple
by kalkin 10y ago
Kettling is very typically used for mass arrests, even if charges are not filed against everyone arrested. This has happened in Oakland, where I live, multiple times in the last five years. And the fact that an arrest without a conviction can be reported to employers under this FBI program is one of the problems noted in the article.
Terrorism is quite a word for a situation in which nobody was seriously injured, as far as I know. And terrorism of the variety that involves killing people is already less likely to kill someone in the U.S. than a lightning strike. Picking the black bloc as the "very real problem... to focus on", in that context and with everything else going on in the world--including the serious damage done to many thousands of people by cruel and violent policies justified by reference to the threat of terrorism--strikes me as a very poor choice of priorities.
- contergan 10y agoUnfortunately you are wrong and several people were seriously injured by the "protesters" - who I'd call terrorists, too, since their actions fit the textbook definition of terrorism - at the Berkeley riots (and many other Anti Trump protests), with one having been almost beaten into a bloody pulp after already lying on the ground unconsciously. That some people in this thread seem to try to justify this kind of behavior is quite disturbing, though probably to be expected, considering the demographics on HN and that some posters here hail from that area, which seems to be ground zero for regressive and violent leftist radicals.