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Sending police to stop violence is "glorifying violence"? How exactly?
by 101404 6y ago
Sending police to stop violence is "glorifying violence"? How exactly?
- Traster 6y agoNo, see you've immediately moved the goals posts. He didn't say "I'm sending the police to stop violence".
- ryanobjc 6y agoSigh. Really. The tweets didn’t offer “sending in the police” it threatened to send the military in. Which isn’t the police. Word matter. The fact I’m m reading this comment here is sad.
- mrighele 6y agoSending police to shoot at protester is "glorifying violence". As a reference, that's the approach that Assad took in Syria back in 2011.
- pnako 6y agoHe mentioned shooting at looters, not protesters. Maybe you didn't see that part because Twitter has hidden the tweet?
- totalZero 6y agoShooting at looters instead of arresting them and taking them before a judge? That's reminiscent of the very brutal police practices that sparked this chaos in the first place.
- pnako 6y agoIn which country do you live? Shooting rubber bullets at rioters and looters is standard practice pretty much everywhere in democracies, and in non-democracies they tend to go straight to lethal ammo.
- mrighele 6y agoYou're right, I mixed the two. In any case I think my point still stands; in most European countries both would be addressed with police batons and in case of violence rubber bullets and tear gas. From his tweet I don't think he was thinking about rubber bullets.
- skocznymroczny 6y agoNo it wouldn't. Most cases of looting in Europe are just forgotten about because it's done by minorities in countries like France or UK and it's a controversial topic to talk about so police and governments would rather just pretend it doesn't happen.
- username90 6y agoMobs in Europe are usually not armed with guns, mobs in USA are.
- celticninja 6y agohe said he was sending the army to start shooting, not sending the police to stop violence.