« Reply #8821 on: September 09, 2020, 02:19:47 PM »
Okay, so non-violent non-protestors deserve to get pepper sprayed (or in this case shot at with pepper paintballs)?
And you're using the case of non-violent non-protestors on their own property harming no one as your argument to... defend the cops from wrongdoing?
Based on what is discussed, I can't even be sure that it would have been legal for the cops in this case to arrest the protestors. I'm trying to find a link to the official curfew order, but the little I've seen on Google suggests that people could not be out "in public". Being on your own porch on your own property does not meet the definition of "in public".
So the cop had no legal standing to demand that they go inside anyway. Which brings us to the endpoint: non-violent non-protestors on their own property being shot at with pepper paintballs for refusing to comply with an unlawful order that they had no legal obligation to heed.
You seem to think that I am some huge pro-police guy, just because I side with them over the BLM/Antics types. I have plenty of problems with police. If you want to pit the police against the pot heads or other nonviolent criminals, fine. I'll side against police. But that's not what this movement is about. This is a coordinated effort to paint violent criminals as the good guys, and the cops that have to deal with those scumbags everyday as the bad guys, so I'm out. I don't give a shit if the cops gun down a rapist who is fighting with them, and trying to retrieve a weapon from his car. That is precisely what the police SHOULD be doing, instead of executing paramilitary style no knock warrants over someone's botanical practices.
If the police were just rolling around ordering people into their homes and then shooting them with paintballs, it would be appalling. But given the backdrop of looting and rioting, it becomes a lot more understandable in my opinion. Tensions are high, and the reasons are bullshit.
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