Do I Message Him Or Let Him Message Me?
Family & Relationships2 mins ago
Law & Order.
19 Answers
Why are the police allowed to film students at demonstrations? They then cover themselves with riot gear, attack them with batons and are never identified.
Also, when they kill someone, why does that person always have some strange disease and would have died in a weeks time anyway?
Also, when they kill someone, why does that person always have some strange disease and would have died in a weeks time anyway?
Answers
1 to 19 of 19
Best Answer
No best answer has yet been selected by Innovation. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.
For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.
Thery are allowed to film because they are in a public place. They do film to identify trouble makers and look out for them next time.
The police are supposed to wear visible identification numbers, but there have certainly been instances of them being covered up recently. Although with demonstrators increasing filming on their phones, any police misbehaviour soon ends up on YouTube and the bad Apple identified.
As for all victims having fatal diseases, that bit isn't true.
The police are supposed to wear visible identification numbers, but there have certainly been instances of them being covered up recently. Although with demonstrators increasing filming on their phones, any police misbehaviour soon ends up on YouTube and the bad Apple identified.
As for all victims having fatal diseases, that bit isn't true.
Like I said, I didnt want to ditract from the point you have raised. But there comes a time when protestors DO become unmanagable to the extent that somebody will get hurt, property will get damaged etc... I am all for justified, peacefully staged demonstrations but take the latest student rioting, wheteher or not it was intended, it got out of hand not because they felt threatned by the police presence but because a percentage wanted to forcefully get their message across. How do we manage these people? All the training for verbal conflict management goes out the window, these protestors know the volitility of the situation that they volunteer to get involved with. I have no sympathy to violent and/or destructive people. It is innocent by-standers and peaceful protestors who become involved I feel for....
Innovation - I find you comments simplistic and deliberately misleading.
You ask above, “... How should we deal with the police running amok and attacking everyone in their sight?”. Ahh, the old loaded question technique. Like asking someone when they stopped beating their wife: the assumption of guilt without evidence. Just so you know, the police don't 'run amok, attacking everyone in their sight' – that particular activity is carried out by violent civilian thugs who make it their business to attend certain protest marches in order to provoke violence. And when these morons are successful in whipping up the crowd into a frenzy, you and others like you, criticise the police for having the audacity to try and stop people from killing them, one another and/or damaging property.
As for your original question as to why the police wear riot gear during violent student protests... are you serious? The police don't wear riot gear during peaceful student protests as has been recently demonstrated up and down the country on countless occasions. The riot gear only comes out when there is a real threat of danger to the police, the public and/or property.
You ask above, “... How should we deal with the police running amok and attacking everyone in their sight?”. Ahh, the old loaded question technique. Like asking someone when they stopped beating their wife: the assumption of guilt without evidence. Just so you know, the police don't 'run amok, attacking everyone in their sight' – that particular activity is carried out by violent civilian thugs who make it their business to attend certain protest marches in order to provoke violence. And when these morons are successful in whipping up the crowd into a frenzy, you and others like you, criticise the police for having the audacity to try and stop people from killing them, one another and/or damaging property.
As for your original question as to why the police wear riot gear during violent student protests... are you serious? The police don't wear riot gear during peaceful student protests as has been recently demonstrated up and down the country on countless occasions. The riot gear only comes out when there is a real threat of danger to the police, the public and/or property.
Continued...
As for your comments about the use of batons, the police can legitimately use these in order to defend themselves, others, or to effect an arrest. If it's the latter, the arresting officer's identification (PIN) number is recorded on every single piece of paperwork pertaining to the individual's arrest – so your accusation that baton wielding police officers (who arrest a suspect) are unidentified is a fiction.
As for baton wielding police officers being unidentified when they don't make an arrest, then I would agree that an officer's PIN number should be displayed at all times whenever possible. But if we're talking about police officers in riot gear then the display of the PIN may be impractical given the constrains of the uniform.
You sound to me like a person who has been on a protest that has become violent (or has had violent elements within it) and you have experienced reciprocal violence from the police or have witnessed it. Do you think that protesters have a right to become violent and harm themselves, others around them and damage property. Presumably you don't, so what would you have the police do in that situation?
As for your comments about the use of batons, the police can legitimately use these in order to defend themselves, others, or to effect an arrest. If it's the latter, the arresting officer's identification (PIN) number is recorded on every single piece of paperwork pertaining to the individual's arrest – so your accusation that baton wielding police officers (who arrest a suspect) are unidentified is a fiction.
As for baton wielding police officers being unidentified when they don't make an arrest, then I would agree that an officer's PIN number should be displayed at all times whenever possible. But if we're talking about police officers in riot gear then the display of the PIN may be impractical given the constrains of the uniform.
You sound to me like a person who has been on a protest that has become violent (or has had violent elements within it) and you have experienced reciprocal violence from the police or have witnessed it. Do you think that protesters have a right to become violent and harm themselves, others around them and damage property. Presumably you don't, so what would you have the police do in that situation?
1 to 19 of 19
