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These stupid kids have no idea what they’re protesting about. The media really slaughtered this story; no one knows what really happened. This makes my f-ing blood boil. The cops had every right to do what they did. These cops gave SO many warnings. The kids weren’t even protesting about budget cuts or tuition fees anymore.
“If you let them go, we will let you leave!”
“From Davis to Greece, fuck the police”
Idiots.
Yea, great. So this video has been made to seem much worse than it is. I agree, the protesters were stupid. There’s no such thing as a smart mob. However, and this is unrelated to the core of it, but still relevant, is that the video comments in the last five minutes or so ceased to be impartial, and instead became flat out ad hominem statements. “The protesters now refer to themselves as ‘children.’” Okay. And? How is that relevant to the subject of the video? The mob was irrational, that was established, no need to make poorly constructed ad hominem attacks on the people. Regardless, this was informative. What’s sad is that there was one moron instigating all of it. You heard the same voice, rattling off the idiotic incongruities that are so common in mobs and in many people when they talk. Thank you for the video. The source may have been biased, but it did provide a necessary second perspective.
I don’t really have any opinions about occupy wall street or what the protesters were all about, but in all honesty I think the edited videos weren’t wrong in how “edited” that they were. Of course I read and watched more than just the videos on the news so I knew of all the verbal warnings the police gave, but how does that justify the use of pepper spray in order to make an arrest?
Sure as police they have the right to use it, but that does not make it right as a human being. I likened it to getting angry over a group of people insulting you on the street. Are you going to pull out a can of pepper spray and spray them in the face because they dropped the f-bomb on you? So they wouldn’t let the police leave, really….most of the crowd wasn’t part of the protest and they were chanting that the police would leave. If the police had any desire to leave they could have just announced it and the students would have cheered in mock victory.
I’ve also only read one professor’s article in the Huffingtonpost about the dangers of pepper spray so I might be biased, but I’m appalled in the way they used the pepper spray on students whom were unable to protect themselves. Apparently prison inmates have more rights regarding the use of pepper spray on them than us citizens.
And to add to that, the police were not obligated to make an arrest. The chancellor herself said that she did not ask them to arrest the protesters. She asked them to take down the tents, but the protesters were allowed to stay.
I don’t understand how having an opinion makes them idiots. I don’t understand how disobeying the police can make them idiots when it was the police (or maybe just a few in general) in the wrong.
Regardless, there are people that are much more ignorant about these events than I am so perhaps this video is for them.
“I don’t understand how having an opinion makes them idiots. I don’t understand how disobeying the police can make them idiots when it was the police (or maybe just a few in general) in the wrong.”
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“…but I’m appalled in the way they used the pepper spray on students whom were unable to protect themselves”
The students could have protected themselves by leaving.
Of course they decided to stay after individual warnings were given about the pepper spray.
I see where you’re coming from about how the videos weren’t “wrong” in terms of how they were edited. I just wished they would have showed what happened before.
Okay no more ranting! Back to studying.. What am I even doing on Tumblr?
