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| Authored by: Wol on Tuesday, October 02 2012 @ 09:37 AM EDT |
Probably because there's an argument over whether the protest was peaceful!
In all probability 99.9% of the people there were peaceful. Just the 0.1% (maybe
not even students) who were there to cause trouble. That's the justification the
police need to be violent :-(
Certainly that's the situation we have in the UK.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 02 2012 @ 11:04 AM EDT |
Defending oneself by claiming to be following orders from a superior has not
been valid since the Nuremberg trial.
The officers should have excercised common sense and sound judgement, not abused
their position of power.
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| Authored by: Tyro on Tuesday, October 02 2012 @ 02:33 PM EDT |
Do you think it's an accident?
The primary purpose of the police is not to protect the citizenry, it's to
protect the government. Police are not required to enforce the law...or
possibly it's just that they are allowed to choose which laws they decide to
enforce.
FWIW, I believe that this dates back to the establishment of the English legal
system after the Magna Charta, which was designed to satisfy the rebellious
barons, but gave a few minor crumbs to the peasants. The main purpose was that
nobody who had sufficient power to rebel would be dissatisfied enough to do so.
It's worked "fairly well", at least better than most alternative
systems that have been tried. But don't expect a system with those roots to be
fair to the weak, or to supply justice the the poor.
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| Authored by: LocoYokel on Tuesday, October 02 2012 @ 07:00 PM EDT |
From what I saw and read it sounds like something that would get a non-police
officer arrested for assault with a chemical agent or some phrasing like that.
I seem to remember reading about at least one case where a person was charged on
those grounds. The facts may not be completely congruent and my memory may be
off.
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