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Man, watching these protests I am struck by the differences between how individual cops maintain themselves.
At one point in the protests, I see this cop. He is waving at people, winking, smiling, giving folks the thumbs up. People are smiling at him, waiving back.
I just saw a cop pursue a protester pass the police line, initiate body cantact, push the protester 3 times, before the protester pushes back, and then watch the cops swarm in and assualt these guys until people ran up to support the protesters, followed by the cops dropping concussion grenades in a group of people, and rain about 30 cannisters of tear gas on them.
I watch the first cop, and am filled with hope for what could be. I watch the second cop, and wish the french people were armed, so it was a fair fight.
As a whole it makes me pessimistic AF. If all it takes is a few assholes to turn things violent, we are fucked in the US.
At one point in the protests, I see this cop. He is waving at people, winking, smiling, giving folks the thumbs up. People are smiling at him, waiving back.
I just saw a cop pursue a protester pass the police line, initiate body cantact, push the protester 3 times, before the protester pushes back, and then watch the cops swarm in and assualt these guys until people ran up to support the protesters, followed by the cops dropping concussion grenades in a group of people, and rain about 30 cannisters of tear gas on them.
I watch the first cop, and am filled with hope for what could be. I watch the second cop, and wish the french people were armed, so it was a fair fight.
As a whole it makes me pessimistic AF. If all it takes is a few assholes to turn things violent, we are fucked in the US.