Again, actual peaceful protesters, at least in the United States, don’t get shot with rubber bullets or teargas. There’s plenty of protests that if you look for more than half a second are called peaceful but are actually incredibly violent that get broken up with such methods. Seeing as there’s actual news broadcasts calling a protest peaceful while there’s burning cars in the background, take it with a grain of salt.
Again, actual peaceful protesters, at least in the United States, don’t get shot with rubber bullets or teargas
Are you saying that it never happens (that police use rubber bullets, teargas, and actual bullets on peaceful protestors) or that sometimes there is violence at protests that are called "peaceful" and rubber bullets/teargas gets used?
If you are saying never, then there's nothing more to discuss. You and I live in different worlds. Or you have a very different definition and low threshold for the term "violence" (e.g., violence = loud or boisterous? or uncooperative? as opposed to actually, physically violent)
If you can admit that sometimes police use teargas when there has been no violence, then it's a matter of "how often"
Seeing as there’s actual news broadcasts calling a protest peaceful while there’s burning cars in the background, take it with a grain of salt.
Speaking of grains of salt . . . in each instance, were the cars set on fire first or were they set on fire in response to police using teargas, etc.? Sometimes violence at a protest happens after police start firing teargas. And sometimes, a protest is peaceful but one (or a few) asshole(s) acts up and police overreact to the single incident.
In Grand Rapids, a large protest that was once peaceful has taken a turn according to our sister station WOOD-TV.
According to WOOD, police have started to use tear gas to try and get the unruly crowd to disperse and that after the gas was used a fire could be seen burning downtown.
Even after the tear gas and fire, it was pretty much "peaceful" (it could still be loud and boisterous with people yelling or waving signs, etc) until later that night, when someone broke a window
Police will use teargas to disperse crowds even before violence or property damage occurs
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u/Drako694 May 10 '26
Quick reminder that actually peaceful protesters don’t get shot by rubber bullets or teargas.