Yes, because every GOP convention has had liberals running riot in the street.
Retard.
The cops aren't getting together to play 'Dress-Up', G. The world has gotten a little more insane, people a LOT more intolerant, and crime / criminal behavior has risen.
If the GOP showed up and had their convention, if Liberals, anti-GOP, and nut jobs peacefully demonstrated in a 'professional', courteous, non-violent way, there would be no trouble and no need for such a heavily armored, prepared police force. That doesn't happen, does it?
Whether it is some asshole who has lost his freakin' mind because his collegiate or professional team won some championship and decides to firebomb a storefront and roll a police car or some partisan (any party) who has such little respect for others and their beliefs, who are so intolerant, that they want to commit acts of violence, this is too often common today.
People, ALL PEOPLE, completely forget how to act civilized in these mob setting, and the mob mentality takes over, stores get smashed, looted, set on fire, someone brings out a gun and takes a shot at a cop or someone else......
I'm not saying it is JUST Libs - I used them because the story is about preparing for the expected reaction to a GOP convention. I am talking more broadly, about MANY people have become so intolerant, hate-filled, and frankly bat-shit crazy that they think they have a right to spit on, hit, curse out, shoot someone else for believing something different, that they can turn over cars, light cars on fire, riot, loot, and burn simply because they do not agree with someone else.
Regarding the 22yo College kid in the news last NCAA basketball championship jumping up and down on the roof of a burning police car...if I was a cop I would have walked up to within 5 feet of him, shot him right in the chest (left side), blowing him off the top of the car. While the rest of the thugs asses ran I would have rolled him over, slapped the cuffs on him, and made him the city-wide POSTER CHILD for dumbass criminals who think they have the right to act like this, sending a message out to all the others that this behavior will NOT be tolerated.
Many cops just let people in mob scenes like this go, continue their rampage. I have heard one mayor say, 'Well; it's understandable - it was a big night.'
Ummm,
NO! That shite is NEVER acceptable!
In regards to the convention, if people would carry signs, march, keep their hands to themselves, respect others and their 'space', respect the law, then all this would be over-kill. Not going to happen. You and I know it.