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if anyone "bull rushed" them, the cops had tear gas, pepper spray, batons and guns at their disposal. They were not in danger.
I guess you see what you want to believe.
Whatever pal, but I think you dramatically underestimate what a group of unarmed people can do.
Police forces all over the country routinely clear peaceful protesters without resorting to pepper spray, pal. They make arrests, which is what they are obligated to do.
Except, no one charged anyone. At any point. Ever. During the scene. They were sitting - not exactly a threatening position.Take any one of those cops equipped as they were and in the same proximity as the protesters put me and three other guys charging with the intent to fuck him up and that cop is a dead man.
Now I will concede that that is an extreme scenario and it's highly doubtful that it would have gone down that way...maybe one chance in 10,000....BUT if it's my ass that's surrounded by a mob of people moving in toward me and shouting "fuck the police", I'm going to what I must to ensure that if someone goes down it aint me.
Using this standard (1 in 10,000), police officers would probably need to pepper spray every person they pull over for a routine traffic stop...just in case. A couple years ago, I stood a few hundred yards away as I watched my local police officers attempt to control the situation as an armed man stood in his front yard twirling a gun and screaming obscenities and threatening to kill someone. He was a clear threat. Did they shoot him? Drop tear gas on him? No. Did they feel threatened? Probably. But they waited let the situation diffuse. No one got hurt, no one got shot or pepper sprayed and they eventually arrested the guy.
Using force just escalates the situation and pepper spraying those students put the police in MORE danger because now they pissed off hundreds of people standing and sitting around.
I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree, but man I think you're completely off base.
That's fine. We disagree. It's the fun of participating in threads.
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