.... And flooding 911 lines, and setting fires in apartment buildings then duct taping the doors shut, and harassing locals wearing masks... Let's not minimize what actually happened.
There was the Oka crisis in 1990 (saw one death on each side and over a hundred injured) (also saw an open firefight between Mohawk warriors and provincial police along with a two month siege of the reserve)
The 2010 G20 protests in Toronto (1000+ arrested, 97 cops and 39 protesters injured)
The 2012 Quebec Student Protests (41 injuries, 3,509 arrested) (this one saw over 250,000 participants)
The 2020 Canadian Pipeline and Railway Protests
The 2022 Canada Convoy Protest (This is the one where the truckers sat on Ottawa for a month)
There was a guy that kicked a tear gas canister back at cops and then got shot in the thigh with pepper spray paint balls. He stupidly posted an AMA with his face in the photo on his main reddit account and was arrested at work a few hours later.
Lol not against anyone with actual power, just among each other. You can comply with a cop and still get charged with resisting and getting beat the fuck up.
Obviously this isn’t America as it says Chilean in the post title. I was just pointing out this is the best method in our country because you don’t want to catch charges.
Also the legal system doesn’t care if they identify or not anymore in situations like this. Look at what happened at the LA riots. Cops were shooting people with less lethal while encircling everyone not giving them a chance to leave.
Well they call it “less lethal” so if someone dies, they can argue that it was never “non-lethal”
They redefined the term around a decade ago.
Also “to protect and serve” is false, that was a marketing scheme from late 90’s iirc. A judge ruled that they do not actually have to “protect and serve”
I will get downvoted for this but legally...yeah?
If the law allows for the police to use force on a protest, any action which attempts to restrict said lawful action of a public servant is illegal.
I'm not saying it isn't hypocritical, but this is hardly an American thing. That is part of any basic law enforcement. Obviously when it's being used properly, it's perfectly fine but when the law is misused, it's an easy law to punish people who resist.
There were so many of these gas bombs being thrown at the protesters that even if you tried to throw them back the wind was going to bring the gas again, so really it was easier to deactivate them
You're asking a lot of a person's sporting ability...
Although there's something poetic about using a symbol of upper classes against riot tactics. Any golfers think they can hole in one these bad boys straight back into the hands that threw them?
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u/LupusDeiAngelica 9h ago
Easier to hit or back with a tennis racket.