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Leading your reply with "that's all fine" effectively dismisses OPs point on their post to point at your argument instead—I don't sense this is your intent, but

Leading your reply with "that's all fine" effectively dismisses OPs point on their post to point at your argument instead—I don't sense this is your intent, but this is totally a situation where doing both would be completely valid. Officers being pepper sprayed may lead them to use less pepper spray, and also may lead to less incidents where officers should need to be held liable.

TaylorAlexander 4y ago
This is true only if cops can be expected to have empathy for the people they would be pepper spraying, and I honestly think that’s overly optimistic. I’m all for pepper spraying the cops, but I wouldn’t want to suggest that is a good solution to this problem. Part of the problem seems to be that cops believe their victims deserve to be punished. They must know the people they tackle and kneel on and beat up are experiencing pain but as we have seen that doesn’t dissuade quite a lot of them from behaving badly. This is why I think that expecting empathy is actually misguided and consequences are better.