"Don't see this story as a bad thing."
really?
They kettle and beat protestors, and push people to the ground with enough force to kill them, and you are happy these thugs have guns?
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Avast is still alive!!!!, Thu 12 May 2011, 11:03,
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What? We're not talking about street police being armed here.
We're talking about already armed police marksmen.
As for complaining about kettling FFS. Ask you parents about the poll tax riots.
That was proper police brutality. Gettin run down and trampled by horses, having your clavicle broken with a baton as a standard method of bringing someone down.
Thats police brutality. Check out choke holding. Check out beatings with rubber hoses.
Not saying it's perfect but the police force these days is nowhere near as brutal is it was 20 years ago.
Having to stand around and really needed a piss is not the worse crime the force has commited.
That officer who pushed that bloke is going to get hammered and the first coroner who produced the initial report is getting hammered too.
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Whilst we're on the subject of kettling....
It's been a standard form of crowed control at football matches for decades.
It only seems to have become a problem when it started being applied to the middle classes.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 12 May 2011, 11:42,
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As someone who was at the Poll tax riots.
I wholeheartedly agree. I spent a large propertion of my youth as an angry lefty, a bit of kettling would have been a picnic in the park compared to full-on cavalry charges, followed up by vans at 30+mph and *then* several hundred coppers in riot gear doing a baton charge.
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