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Let's me see if I have this straight. A group of people were not allowing anyone else to utilize a public sidewalk, and since they refused to move, action was taken.
So the "peaceful" protesters were blocking the police attempts to move those arrested protesters out of the quad. Why didn't they let the police do their job of removing those arrested ? Let the police remove the violent/law breakers so the movement doesn't continue with it's bad rep.
You have a right to protest but when the police tell you to move or whatever and you decide not to follow their orders then you get what you ask for.
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HEADWATERS FOREST DEFENSE v. COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT posted:
Characterizing the protestors' activities as “active resistance†is contrary to the facts of the case, viewing them, as we must, in the light most favorable to the protestors: the protestors were sitting peacefully, were easily moved by the police, and did not threaten or harm the officers. In sum, it would be clear to a reasonable officer that it was excessive to use pepper spray against the nonviolent protestors under these circumstances.
So the "peaceful" protesters were blocking the police attempts to move those arrested protesters out of the quad. Why didn't they let the police do their job of removing those arrested ? Let the police remove the violent/law breakers so the movement doesn't continue with it's bad rep.
Would you please elaborate on why there are quotes around peaceful. In this situation would you point out where exactly violent action was conducted?
The pictures look like those taken during equally peaceful civil rights demonstrations of the '50s. And like those demonstrations, these will not stop. And if there's any justice in this world, some of those in positions of power within the UC Davis administration will lose their jobs.
Pepper spraying someone for sitting on a sidewalk is extreme over-reaction.
Would you please elaborate on why there are quotes around peaceful. In this situation would you point out where exactly violent action was conducted?
So these peaceful protesters were just sitting there, minding their own business and the police just randomly walked up and sprayed them ?
That is not the case. They were peaceful in that they just sat there but they were blocking the law from doing their job and told to move. Pepper spray vs physically removing them was a good choice by the police.
Do you support civil disobedience ? Do you support anarchy ?
Protesting is one thing and is backed by our constitution but preventing the law from doing their job is not.
The police asked them to move so they could take the arrested out.
So these peaceful protesters were just sitting there, minding their own business and the police just randomly walked up and sprayed them ? That is not the case.
That you. Some posters have an amazing gift for contextual retardation... you might as well say someone fleeing from police in a car was just driving.
They were infringing upon the rights of others to use the sidewalk and didn't comply when asked to move. Arrest 'em.
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more fuel to the movement,, in the long run it will work against the police,, it will only make the protest grow in numbers...
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