Civil liberties groups: Police overreacted at G-20
September 26th, 2009 . by TexasFredCivil liberties groups: Police overreacted at G-20
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Police used all the nonlethal tools at their disposal to thwart protesters at the Group of 20 summit this week, firing bean bags, hurling canisters of smoke and pepper spray, using flash-bang grenades and batons and deploying a high-tech sound-blasting device meant to push back crowds.
It was all a bit much for civil liberties groups and protesters.
They decried what they called a heavy-handed and unwarranted police response, saying riot officers focused on largely peaceful, if unsanctioned, demonstrations when they should have been paying more attention to small groups of vandals that smashed windows of city businesses.
“It’s not just intimidation, it’s disruption and in some cases outright prevention of peaceful protesters being able to get their message out,” said Witold “Vic” Walczak, legal director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania. “In a week when we need freedom of speech more than ever, free speech died in Pittsburgh this week.”
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Civil liberties groups: Police overreacted at G-20
It’s a strange, strange world. The anarchists have a protest, and a march, and there is violence, arrests, property damage, people hurt and taken to the hospital, tons of taxpayer dollars spent to protect the city and it’s residents from these anarchists. And what do you get next? Civil liberties groups and liberal groups, whining and crying and generally making asses of themselves as they defend the *rights* of violent anarchists and condemn the police for doing the job they are intended to do.
In comparison, an estimate 1.2 MILLION people that are affiliated with The 9-12 Group and The American TEA Party marched on Washington, D.C. on September 12th and no one was arrested, there was NO violence, no property was destroyed and the federal government was NOT overthrown. Amazing isn’t it? That is the difference between PEACEFUL marches conducted by Conservative America and marches conducted by avowed anarchists.
Re-read the 1st paragraph of this story;
Police used all the nonlethal tools at their disposal to thwart protesters at the Group of 20 summit this week, firing bean bags, hurling canisters of smoke and pepper spray, using flash-bang grenades and batons and deploying a high-tech sound-blasting device meant to push back crowds.
I applaud the police in Pittsburgh for their professional handling of these anarchist MOBS. They *could* have used bullets and 00Buck shotgun shells instead of non-lethal dispersal methods.
Around the same time, a few blocks away, windows were smashed at some 10 businesses. Police made 42 arrests near the university, but it wasn’t clear if they caught any of the vandals.
Experts say that anarchists successfully deployed a tactic in Pittsburgh that they have often used at other protests, leading a large group of people toward police, then slipping out of the crowd to commit mayhem elsewhere.
That’s the ticket. Gather up a bunch of weak-minded, libber tree huggers, whip them into a frenzy and instruct them to MARCH! And be sure to make a lot of noise while doing so. Tell them that the police are their enemy and this is all about saving the world from the vile capitalists.
Then set your true anarchists loose within this deluded bunch of weak-minded moonbats and your true anarchists are free to roam, practically unnoticed, as they carry out their true mission of destruction.
