police officer spraying nonviolent protesters in face with pepper spray @ uc davis
Your example is flawed because you're comparing arresting one person opposed to multiple people. In any situation police officers ALWAYS want to outnuraber the subjects. Hence why you'll see two/three cop cars behind a pulled over vehicle. In this case they need to remove and possibly arrest 20 or so people. Yes, they're non-violent, but they're still directly disobeying a direct order. In a perfect world they could just arrest them, but in law enforcement you don't pussy foot around and take a situation for granted. You have to assume the worst and as such it's in your best interest to incapacitate the group before you arrest them instead of have them fully functioning.
police officer spraying nonviolent protesters in face with pepper spray @ uc davis
It wasn't just that they were sitting there. Its that they were sitting there in an effort to prevent police from removing the tents that had been set up unlawfully.
This video is hilarious.
police officer spraying nonviolent protesters in face with pepper spray @ uc davis
I generally don't side with the hippy protestors in these videos, but judging from only the context I've seen, the police are grossly misusing force here. There are at least as many cops in that video as students blocking the path.
police officer spraying nonviolent protesters in face with pepper spray @ uc davis
Now they did set up tents unlawfully, but to say they were sitting there guarding them... The group of people sitting down were no where near any tents. Any police person could walk around them and set down the tents (where ever they may be)
police officer spraying nonviolent protesters in face with pepper spray @ uc davis
FYI you can't block a sidewalk.
police officer spraying nonviolent protesters in face with pepper spray @ uc davis
well that isn't a sidewalk.
police officer spraying nonviolent protesters in face with pepper spray @ uc davis
b/c the cops didn't choose to hose the hippies away: i despise big government, half of the dickwad cops out there on their power trips, and the diminishing civil rights and liberties we have, but this is one rare instance where i personally feel the pepper spray actually wasn't that bad of a reaction, justified or no. no, the students weren't violent, but asshat behavior - like what the students displayed - is usually met with more asshat behavior - ie pepper spraying students. laws and rules dont change human nature........
and when one asshat has more tools at his disposal than the other asshat, one of them is going to end up very unhappy.
there is a difference between blindly protesting and complaining because you feel entitled to something and logically thinking about and changing how the UC system got into this huge mess in the first place and then doing something logical to fix it. unfortunately too many of the kiRAB, often reserabling the ones i see in these police videos, that i meet in college, the place where you are supposed to learn how to think and solve problems, do not think and then do something to solve problems. instead they ask for everything while wanting to give and do nothing.
police officer spraying nonviolent protesters in face with pepper spray @ uc davis
bahahaha they aren't even hippies. go away please.
police officer spraying nonviolent protesters in face with pepper spray @ uc davis
Edit: Decided to read. Yeah this was pretty stupid. The cops had no reason to do what they did. Claiming that they were "surrounded" by the protesters and took action to get out from them. What a joke.
police officer spraying nonviolent protesters in face with pepper spray @ uc davis