Мастер wrote:So then it is the police who are rioting.
Enzo wrote:Of course. Smiling policemen entered a convenience store for coffee and a doughnut, then ransacked and destroyed the place on their way out. Then outside as they practiced their billy club swings, innocent bystanders ran in and got in the way, inadvertently getting hit in the process.
Lance wrote:The police have also arrested members of the press that were simply trying to cover the events. These reporters were then released the next morning with no charges being filed.
Arneb wrote:Good old intimidation, Soviet-style.
And another police state method to work the crowds: When people get upset about police violence, use more police violence. Always gets you what you wanted: People smashing cars and stoning policemen to which you can point and say: Told you so.
Oh, America.
Lance wrote:Riots my ass! There are a bunch of Jack-Booted Thugs violating the Constitutional Rights of peacefully assembling American Citizens. Those cops are disgraces to their badges.
Heid the Ba' wrote:Succinct and accurate, and I say that as one ex-cop to another.
Heid the Ba' wrote:Which part? I know I was a cop for four years and I'm fairly sure Lance mentioned once that he had been a cop.
Heid the Ba' wrote:I doubt I have ever mentioned it, it was a long time ago. It was also in Dumfries and rural Dumfries and Galloway so not exactly The Shield.
Heid the Ba' wrote:TV series. I should maybe have gone with The Wire.
Heid the Ba' wrote:Succinct and accurate, and I say that as one ex-cop to another.
Lance wrote:Heid the Ba' wrote:Succinct and accurate, and I say that as one ex-cop to another.
Thank you!
I didn't say anything like that and you know it
Enzo wrote:I didn't say anything like that and you know it
Relax, I was just trying to be facetious.
It was actually a riff on an old joke about a bar fight, in which the teller says "I crammed my chin into his fist, and threw myself on the floor..."
Heid the Ba' wrote:The economic case for rioting.
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