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Originally Posted by gstelmack
After one "peaceful protest" turns into a night of looting, you lose the benefit of the doubt.
Too many people in this country forget that with freedom comes responsibility, and if you don't use your freedoms responsibly, you tend to lose them.
Now, all the stuff about "turn off your cameras" I get, that's stupid on the police's part. Not defending everything they are doing, but as with nearly everything else involved in this and similar stories, the pictures posted here are missing an awful lot of context. The police do have the job of defending the town from the looters.
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The videos that came out last night (which I couldn't believe I could actually watch "live") were an army of police officers firing rubber bullets and tear gas canisters at a group of unarmed people standing in the street in protest.