https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/02/us/police-protests-use-of-force/index.html
In some cases, police leaders say violence in the streets leaves them with no other choice. And President Trump has pushed for local officials to ramp up their show of force. But protesters and police critics argue that some officers are escalating tensions with their actions.
"They're
making the argument for the demonstrators, that American policing
remains unreformed and out of control," says Alex Vitale, a professor of
sociology at Brooklyn College who studies police response to protest.
He says the firing of tear gas is one
telling example of the ways police are not only inflaming tensions in
the streets, but bolstering the case he and other critics have been
making.
"This is a gross overreaction," he says.
This has taken on a life of its own. Many of the protests are violent, forcing the cops to respond. Then cops show up at other protests, assume it'll get violent and just react before anything bad has actually happened.
ReplyDeleteIt's the other way around. Hateful of cops, drugged, not caring about their own safety, protesters who cover for violent elements in their midst while crying "Peaceful!" justify police brutality.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I would do.
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