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Thank you for those but I thought someone would have the raw vid on the spicific officer threat this thread is about.You will likely be upset because the intro and end has been edited, but...
http://youtu.be/lnXnWB0AZgg
http://youtu.be/oqtiGhpNH9Y
http://youtu.be/I6ZyztUvK2Y
(These two were called "helping" the journalists in question)
I could go on with more...
Thank you for those but I thought someone would have the raw vid on the spicific officer threat this thread is about.
As you predicted I have no love for the media being fired on because, as far as I know, the law gives media no special permission to ignore lawfull orders. If the media did file for and recieved some special exemption from the curfew, then IMO it would be a good idea to add Class-3 reflective vests with the permit number on both sides so that they are easily identified through the smoke, flash-bangs and general chaos of a raid.Oh, I'll see if I can find one, at least one with better resolution...
I was just demonstrating video of the attacks on the media.
If the law does not extend the media any special permission, then the police were right to fire on them as they cleared the streets.
Am I the only one who finds the practice of enforcing curfews despotic and reprehensible?
Well, yeah, I do, but I also find out-of-control animalistic behavior reprehensible too.
You apparently have no clue how the U.S. justice system works. As the saying goes, the U.S. has the best justice system money can buy. Do you suppose they say this because it is "fair" to the "poorest people" as you put it? Of course not.
Detroit is one of the poorest and most violence cities in America. Yet, they have two of the most cost-effective private "police" forces in the nation. Threat Management Center and Detroit 300.
Why do you think they changed teh curfew status? Too much blowback across the country. Had to resort to "You can protest but you have to always keep moving". Then proceeded to pin people in with police lines and apprehend them for "failure to disperse". This whole event seems to have been a testing of American rights and what responses and measures would be tolerated.Am I the only one who finds the practice of enforcing curfews despotic and reprehensible?
How can you objectively investigate a crime if a suspect is someone who directly pays you. You depend on that person specifically to provide your business, your police force revenue, so how can you objectively look into a case where that person may have to go to jail?
These are two entirely separate issues. Immoral actions of one group of individuals does not in any way justify the immoral actions of another. Mass punishment is the tool of totalitarian governments (and the military).
I've said earlier that, regardless of what happened with the guy who got shot, the response has looked like martial law training.Why do you think they changed teh curfew status? Too much blowback across the country. Had to resort to "You can protest but you have to always keep moving". Then proceeded to pin people in with police lines and apprehend them for "failure to disperse". This whole event seems to have been a testing of American rights and what responses and measures would be tolerated.
No, they really aren't separate. One is the cause of the other.
This is where competition comes into play. Unlike government corruption, when a business appears to have biases their bottom line is hurt and will potentially go out of business.
No, but the situation is vaguely comparable.
An angry, potentially dangerous, mob, is an angry, potentially dangerous, mob. :shrug:
Which is why we don't depend on private police forces.
No, it doesn't. You can't possibly have that much competition when it comes to law enforcement without people stepping on each other's toes.
The bottom line is that private police forces do not work as the sole or even primary law enforcement for an area, especially one like ours with governmental protections of our rights.
Am I the only one who finds the practice of enforcing curfews despotic and reprehensible?
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