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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

So if they had set more things on fire they would have been left alone?

More accurately, if there were a couple thousand more people and the police were focused on riot control and not on sending a couple cops to arrest a small handful of people that were sitting where they shouldn't, they probably wouldn't have been arrested. That's a simple matter of logistics and numbers: The more chaotic the situation and the more people involved, the less likely any given individual is to be singled out.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

... and immediately released.

Depends on the nature of the crime they committed. Trespassing doesn't usually result in jail time. Assault does. Preventing people from safely patronizing a business definitely leans more toward the latter.

Zeus posted...

Yet another stunningly awful post from BS0. jfc, why are you so fixated on stealing kids from parents?

Do you honestly think the decision to bring the child along on this little stunt was anything more than a ploy to make the government look bad for arresting a child? Do you honestly think that parents who are willing to exploit their children as political pawns like that are good parents?

Zeus posted...

Unlikely, because they pick and choose when to enforce that stuff.

It might depend on what actual harm they were causing, but in such an unambiguous case of trespassing as this (which interfered with the business' ability to safely operate), it's a given that they'd at least be removed, if not actually taken into custody.

Plus, you know, there's the whole bit where protesting police brutality is infinitely more justifiable than protesting against public health (boiling down to "stop hurting people" vs. "let me hurt people"), but people seem to like glossing over that whenever they equivocate the two.