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> Almost any civilian action (e.g. filming police / protests) encourages the 'us vs them' attitude and encourages police to close ranks. IMO, if you are not ab
by sgift 10y ago
> Almost any civilian action (e.g. filming police / protests) encourages the 'us vs them' attitude and encourages police to close ranks.
IMO, if you are not able to shrug off people exercising their rights even if it bothers you you are unfit of being a police officer. Or any civil servant for that matter.
- richardwhiuk 10y agoBeing (knowingly) filmed constantly is extremely off putting to lots of people. Protests are extremely volatile environments, and often a small number of people in them are there to cause trouble. Protestors often equivocate attacking the government as attacking the police (sometimes reasonsably, as the police are effectively a state instrument). It's quite difficult not to create an us versus them attitude when some people in a protest are throwing projectiles.