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Originally Posted by Livia
Tear gas can temporarily blind you. So? Don't get caught rioting and you have nothing to worry about.
Who says the police use tasers in less demanding circumstances? I would never want to to the job the police have to do, dealing mostly with the very dregs of society, and yet people are worrying that the rights of the dregs may be affected. I am never going to be tasered, you know why? Because I don't break the law.
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Thats one of the problems, indiscriminate applications of force.
The police use tactics like kettling, to restrict the movement of demonstrators, not all demonstrators are violent thugs. In fact in most cases the rioters are just a tiny minority. Containing all the demonstrators including the thugs in a relatively small area with no means of egress.
However if a demonstration is hijacked and used as a cover for rioting, innocent demonstrators will be caught up in the measures being used to control or disable the riotersand unable to get out of the targeted Non Lethal Weapon target area.
As for you being tasered, fair enough you dont break the law, or havent yet, you never know what the future holds or what circumstances may lead you to be in the line of fire of a trigger happy taser armed cop. And accidents do happen.