By refusing to let the protestors exit the freeway, the police caused the blockage of traffic to be over 3 hours longer, during the handling of all the arrests.
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Police also like to crowd protesters into confined areas and then arrest them for not dispersing.
Police love to escalate peaceful protests into violent ones by making everything worse.
Have respect for our people out in the field. They are the ones doing the good fight
Not that I would support it in any way, but that would be the perfect time for people to suicide bomb. Being crowded with a bunch of people would definitely lower the impact, but being slightly spread out, you might have a better chance of doing more damage.
Maybe these people shouldn't have started blocking the highway in the first place? There's nothing here that makes these arrests unjustified.
I'll correct your post for you chief no need to edit. What halfempty really meant to say: By entering the freeway, the protestors caused the blockage of traffic to be over 3 hours longer.
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- It's really difficult to take such a heavily edited video with shitty music seriously.
- What exactly does this reveal? That the police use helicopters with various cameras and radios to communicate? Uh, no shit. Anyone that's watched one of those police chase shows in the past few decades could tell you that.
- You know what everyone hates? Traffic. Shutting down a highway has to be the absolute worst possible way to get people to join your movement. It's obnoxious and dangerous. These people deserve to be arrested regardless of what disperse orders were or were not given.
- Shining a laser at an aircraft is extremely dangerous. Ask any pilot how it can be blinding. The person doing that 100% should be arrested.
And what exactly does this have to do with privacy anyway? Nothing here belongs in this community.
The tactics and technology of the police state are absolutely a privacy concern.
Sure, but what exactly does this video reveal? All I got out of it was that they have a helicopter with various cameras and radios to communicate with. I'd hardly call that "revealing state trooper surveillance capabilities, tactics, and communications." Is it really something that's not already common knowledge?
Holy that's scary.
Is it? All I saw was a helicopter with decent optics, but nothing particularly special, and cops talking on low bandwidth radios.
Even when we get to actual behavior, we see the cops starting with the assumption that they'll be just telling people to leave and planning routes to do so, before it changes to arresting people for blocking a freeway. They make sure people are notified that they're under arrest early, and the make sure they have adequate transportation before they begin the arrest process.
Like, there's plenty of scary and shitty things cops do, but this wasn't one of them.
I live in europe so a surveillance helicopter watching your moves during a protest or whatever that is is pretty scary, yes.
In this case the helicopter came because they blocked a major highway.
A helicopter coordinating police movements during civil unrest is pretty standard anyplace that can afford helicopters. That's definitely not just an American thing.
Do you think France is eschewing using helicopters to coordinate police movements with their current unrest?
As much as they can, yes.
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