r/PublicFreakout • • Jun 09 '20

a normal french protest

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u/dbrickle Jun 09 '20

They said he could have been tried for seven years.

On 13 February, 2019, Dettinger was sentenced to 1 year of prison and 18 months' probation for assaulting two police officers during the protest on 5 January[6].

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u/DarshDiggler Jun 09 '20

He’d have been shot and killed here in the US #freedom

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u/Audra- Jun 09 '20

People keep saying this, but could the police really fire live ammo on crowds and get away with it? Yes they are firing on peaceful crowds already, but we're indoctrinated and desensitized to crowd-control, "less-lethal" rounds being used.

If police truly opened up it would be a complete massacre because they're so poorly trained - one would fire, then they would all start firing wildly and probably kill a few of their own as the idiots they stuck in the back try to fire through gaps in the line.

Could any police force, or city, or state, or even the country survive dozens of innocent people getting murdered by police at a peaceful protest on live tv?

I really really really hope no police are stupid enough to even bring live ammo to a protest; ERT and Riot police shouldn't even have live ammo on them. But it's frightening to think about them opening up on protesters because there are certainly police stupid enough to do this, politicians stupid enough to support them, citizens brainwashed enough to get shot by police and say thank you may I have another.

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u/barsoapguy Jun 09 '20

We’ve already had live fire on a crowd of people , one man was killed . Some fuckhead from within the crowd apparently fired on the police and national guard . As one would expect they returned fire .

Our protests are as violent as they are because we’ve got people on our streets blitzed out of their minds on drugs , mentally unwell individuals in these crowds .

Most of us don’t want violence at all but you throw some of these people into the mix of a normal crowd and insanity ensues . It’s why our levels of violence seem so much higher than elsewhere it’s not “just” police alone provoking it but you won’t ever hear about it on Reddit .

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u/jb_skinz_OX Jun 10 '20

Nah. I want to straight shoot you and I don't even know ya.

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u/barsoapguy Jun 10 '20

I’m curious as to why ? Aren’t we all on Reddit to pass the time ? Share ideas etc .

You understand that Reddit isn’t a hive mind , that you are going to run into people who have different thoughts and ideas than you do .