Yup commented on this in another thread someone posted. I think everyone but me on that thread thought it was funny and deserved. I guess some folks just don't understand the Constitution is for all of us.
The cop in the photo should lose his job and perhaps even do some time for that spray job.
I absolutely agree! The easiest way to know if a cop was in the right for his actions or not is to turn the tables. What would happen if the pepper spray was in the victims hand instead of the cops hand. That this thug wears a badge doesn't make him privileged and he should therefore suffer the same consequence as anyone else.
Full stop.
The students were given a choice to move or be moved.
It was a lawful order form the police. The pepper spay was used as a persuasion to get the students to move. Along with the right to free speach and the right to assemble you do not have the right to block access, close business, and disrupt others.
These kids / students were given every oppertunity to move and they chose to be pepper sprayed and arrested.
The police officer, his boss ae are paid leave, pending a review, as of now and they are asking for the Chancelors head on a platter.
My problem is not with the police, my problem is with the leadership that sends the police in ot break up the demonstration and then yell at the police for being too rough, be it College or mayor.
Either the demonstrators are a threat and need to be moved or they are not.
Either the camping is a health hazard or it is not. So far a few great ones are leaking out from ambulance drives as to what they are seeing but are being kept quiet in the media.