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C'mon, it's not like police are shooting rubber bullets at random citizens. This discussion is in the context of police in a stand-off against protesters that
by rootusrootus 6y ago
C'mon, it's not like police are shooting rubber bullets at random citizens. This discussion is in the context of police in a stand-off against protesters that are pushing the line between peaceful and rioting.
You may not like their enforcement, and in some cases they are clearly going too far, but there is no real argument on the legality of the tools they are using in the situation. We gave them the right to act as the state's expression of force.
- jakelazaroff 6y ago> C'mon, it's not like police are shooting rubber bullets at random citizens. This discussion is in the context of police in a stand-off against protesters that are pushing the line between peaceful and rioting. If this is your takeaway from the last two weeks, we won't be able to agree. My position is that the police are shooting rubber bullets at random citizens, and that protestors "pushing the line between peaceful and rioting" is a mostly–manufactured narrative to give them post–hoc justification for doing so.
- rootusrootus 6y agoI agree, we probably are talking past each other. I was discussing policy, you were discussing current events. It sounded like you were discussing policy but I misunderstood. Judging from the downvotes, the hive mind feels similarly to you. I'll bow out and have the policy discussion elsewhere.