Standing peacefully in front of federal officers with your hands down in a public space and speaking to them does not merit the disproportionately 'stupid prize' of being swung at full force repeatedly with a baton.
No, but when given a lawful order to disperse, particularly in the midst of a riot, and you instead choose to stand your ground, you can and should expect to be forcefully motivated to reconsider. Case in point. He knew what he was doing. Now, he reaps the consequences.
Unless your idea of a wall is a scrawny lone fence-climber who by a stroke of luck turns out to be a vet, not a single one of your links supports your claim that the 'wall of vets' 'became' 'the bomb throwers'.
Consequences that do not justify a lack of nuance in interpreting the results and certainly did not merit responding with the degree of disproportionality exhibited by the recklessly full-forced multiple swings of the baton-wielding officer - and doubly so when in possession of far more effective non-lethal substances like the pepper spray that was finally used.
Are you purposely trying to piss folks off?
So you're saying don't have anything to support your 'wall of vets' into 'wall of bomb throwers' claim from your first post?
How, for challenging him to support his wildly hyperbolic and wholly unsupported claim with the kind of factual basis and linked evidence that the moderators only months before requested for everyone to provide whenever they made bold assertions?
Providing you with the name of someone who posts real time updates on Twitter (garbage pit that it is) is hardly hyperbolic.
That isn't at all the claim that is being addressed.
My views on him or what he did in that context wouldn't change the fact of the abject disproportionality of their response.
Heard loud and clear. Stepping away for now.
Refusing to leave, being dumb enough to think that on night 5x of riots you can talk to those that deal with this shit night after night, not going through proper channels to talk with those who CAN/are authorized to have a discussion with the public... he's looking for a photo op and got more. Time and place, time and place.
If he is going to chill for a minute, let's everyone else please do the same so he does not feel the need to defend himself.
Sorry I was in the process of typing on my phone, saw this after I posted.
