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from Guardian's live coverage: >"Inaction was not an option. We could not wait for someone in the park to get killed," Bloomberg said Wow. This is absurd on s

• yzhengyu 15y ago
  It might sound absurd to you and me, but it really isn't from his point of view once you consider the majority of the audience who is listening to him. For better or for worse, most people are conditioned against destructive action [i.e. violence] used to disrupt the established order of a society. By painting the ongoing protest action with the potential of turning ugly, he is able to start turning overall public opinion against the movement.