11-23-2011, 01:23 PM
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(11-23-2011, 12:50 PM)Biker Dude Wrote: In the link you provided I saw nothing that would lead the viewer to know why they decided to pepper spray. No mention of police contact with the university, university fears, or a phone call. If there is more information out there about this, I have not seen it yet.
They are quite obviously blocking a sidewalk. Not a road. No building access. Chances of a sidewalk through campus being a fire lane? Not high. It is an obvious police over response. Some of the sprayed students are obviously sitting on grass. Yes, they needed to be moved. At least they didn't beat them into the ER, which is what police brutality really looks like. I'm sure all of the students involved were expecting to go to jail. They got what they wanted. Jail time AND they made the cops look like brutal thugs. Stupid move on the cops part, but hey, what else is new?
How do you get the police to show up when you need them?
What do the police do after you call them?
The campus has it's own police why didn't they use them?
You can bet that the cops didn't just show up on a college campus on their own.
I have been in this situation with tree huggers, they were always warned ,given time to comply before any response from the police.
They are informed of the law they were breaking, they are told why they are in violation, they are told to disperse, to change locations, they are then told what the response is going to be, they are warned that they will be peppered, they are given time to comply all of this is seen in the video even without sound it's obvious what is happening.
The response by the police was typical and within the course of training and in reality very controlled.
They had enough people to lay hands on everyone of the ones in the frame at least.
Believe me the pepper kept the escalation of the event from going from a peaceful end to a full on confrontation.
Of course most people will just see what they want to see, put on the uniform and take the call and see what it really is before you judge this type of thing or the cops who have been CALLED to deal with this crap.
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
— Thomas Hardy
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— Thomas Hardy
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