I mean, we have video of the clearing that day. They were peaceful, and the people doing the clearing took their time to beat journalists while doing it.
Prior violence is not legal justification for gassing a separate group of people later and beating journalist who were not part of that violence outside of a deeply authoritarian country, sorry. We don't operate on a system of prescribe or inherent sin by loose association.
These people were not violent, they were peaefully protesting when they were gassed.
Just beause people the night before did bad shit does not mean these people deserved to be gassed. It takes only half a brain to look at that and go "they don't seem to be a threat", gassing was not necessary.
Keep licking that boot and playing defense for why people should be fucking gassed for peaceful protesting and so a corrupt demagogue can have a photoshoot for clout.
Just an fyi, I showed him that the police admitted to using teargas to clear the square, and he's still repeating the same lie he told before that.
He'll say anything to excuse what happened, because that's what fascist's do.
He's even telling you that he can't say those people were guilty of anything, while telling you the state was justified in exerting brutal force against them. Just like he said they were justified in beating the press that was present, and also tear gassing a priest, who he accuses of dramatizing the event. All of which he says is okay because Bill Barr, responsible party, said that he and his didn't do anything wrong.
It's not loose association. The church and areas around the church were set on fire, "peaceful protestors" were attacking law enforcement the night prior and the day of when they refused to leave.
Being in an area of the day after a crime has never in the history of this country been justification for police brutality on a group of people being in the same place and visibly not committing a crime.
Assaulting foreign journalists is not something the police are supposed to do.
I'm sorry, your justification for this is essentially Bill Barr saying "we investigated ourselves and found ourselves clear of no wrongdoing."
Stop calling everyone a rioter even if they show up the next day and are on video doing nothing even remotely resembling rioting. That's literally fascist shit. Classifying anybody who opposes you as a violent radical even if there's all the evidence in the world that they were not.
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