Two-tier policing
For anyone else wondering, nicked means arrested
My first thought was, “They what? They stole protestors? Meaning kidnapped? But that’s not how it’s spelled…”
Ah during BLM, I watched many officers manhandle the women screaming at the racists and push them to the ground. Then politely telling the racists to please stay behind them to avoid getting injured.
What did RATM say about forces?
Chant at cops “WHO DO YOU PROTECT, WHO DO YOU SERVE”
By supreme court decree and by virtue of being part of the violence inherent in the system, “Nobody, whoever is in power”
… planning to do a crime is not “pre-crime.” It’s conspiracy.
Headline makes it sound like cops waded into one of these diet-Nazi events and picked out counterprotestors. Nah: they’ve presumably had warrants for these specific people on-hand since before all that kicked off.
Police have discretion on which crimes to prioritize. They’re not honor-bound to ticket someone who is double-parked in the middle of a car chase. They can opt not to arrest people for trespassing if it gets them to cooperate with a murder investigation.
Going to arrest pacifists engaging in criminal conspiracy to temporarily block nonessential industry and infrastructure at one location while ignoring ongoing racially motivated assault, looting, and arson is a choice.
I don’t think they were prioritizing one group over the other I think they just did two things at the same time there’s more than like five cops you know.
I would love it if the world would be a better place but I don’t think the way just stop oil protesters are going about it is helping anyone including themselves. Totally understand why they’re arrested.
I don’t think they were prioritizing one group over the other
And you don’t think it’s weird that they don’t prioritize ongoing race riots, arson and assaults over planned pacifist protestors?
Each single cop can’t be in two places at once. Every cop occupied with arresting a pacifist is a cop not occupied with preventing arsonists from burning down a building.
As for disruptive protest not helping, have you looked at politics the past two decades? The general public loves disruptive protest.
Why does the UK have so much more of this type of action than the US?
They’ve had longer to marinate.
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Are you implying that this isn’t protest? Lol
It’s a miscarriage of justice that the driver of that vehicle went free after committing attempted murder.
Her name’s Jennifer Watson from Denver. If anyone meets her please do whatever you can to non-violently even the scales of justice.
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Arguably? They placed themselves in more danger by swerving back towards the crowd. All so they could get revenge for some minor property damage.
The accounts prior to the start of the video are conflicting so I won’t comment on that but it’s clearly not self defense to strike someone from behind with a vehicle when you have a clear route of egress. That’s attempted murder.
And protestors are protestors. That doesn’t change based on your feelings being hurt or whatever it is that’s causing you to say that. Most major protests have used roads across all of history. But I guess MLK’s march on Washington wasn’t a protest either?
Do you proudly and openly self-identify as a fascist, or does your echo chamber tell you that you have normal political ideas and opinions?
FTP?
ACAB!
