Reply #107: immensely restrained? [View All]

[Truth2Tell]

Orwellian. Up is down and truth is fiction. When police spray pepper spray directly into the eyes of protesters sitting cross-legged in the middle of the street by pulling their heads back by their hair that is not "immensely restrained." When police kick and shove protesters standing with locked arms in a peaceful line, that is not "immensely restrained." When police fire rubber bullets at short range into crowds of non-violent people that is not "immensely restrained." Maybe you have constructed some alternate reality in your mind so you don't have to face your personal complicity. The human mind works in strange ways.

The police initiated the violence that day. It was a deliberate policy to use violence against non-violent protesters. The fact that a riot broke out as a result should have been no surprise to anyone.

This series of videos provides a nice overview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mAWslHmiok

Lots more at the link.

Edit to add: the courts that issued all the judgments to the abused protesters after the fact apparently saw things differently than you did as well. Weird.