Wall Street Protests

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by classicman

meh - we can't paint the whole dept by the actions of one or at most, a few.

The "open letter" is ostensibly from the whole department, and they used the "skirmish line" war terminology there.

I don't think it was "a few" who armed the cops with tear gas and flashbang grenades against a peaceful protest. I think it's a general problem across the country (and the world), where all sorts of cool "non-lethal" weapons and black paramilitary outfits are given to cops with very loose regulation. It might only be "a few" who actually hope for a riot to occur to justify the use of that equipment, but dressing everyone as stormtroopers and giving them grenades all but guarantees they'll get their wish.