brunhiddensmusings:

reasonandempathy:

fortidogi:

compusomnia:

masterd1mwitt:

compusomnia:

peteseeger:

fish6bowl6apocalypse6:

peteseeger:

It is so, SO fucked up that we just accept the use of chemical weapons by the police as normal when equivalent weapons are forbidden from use in actual warfare

“chemical weapons”

Tear gas is a chemical weapon banned for military use by the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993, but you’re a reactionary fuckwit so you don’t actually care about facts or anything else I have to say, you just care about being a contrarian asshole

Is pepper spray a chemical weapon by your definition too?

Seems like that’s dubiously legal, too. Although considered nonlethal in general, it can cause a person’s airways to swell up, which makes it potentially lethal if the person affected already has breathing difficulties.

How do we keep rowdy people under control, then? Tear gas is out, pepper spray is out… rubber bullets? Tasers? Water cannons only work if you plan far enough in advance that you know you need an entire vehicle on standby. It’s not like you can just carry one of those on your person. Personally, of all those options, I’d rather just be pepper sprayed.

“To solve riots, we must first address the conditions by which riots occur.” Mass public movement is only so strong when faced with a preeminent and obvious threat that can only be survived by organizing. Generally, history has shown that if government actually cedes to the people and allows changes in policy so vehemently resented that cities are torn apart from within, little to no further force will be necessary.

I love how they just presume that people just go out into the streets over every little thing and that it’s par for the course.

No mate.

If your people are so pissed and frustrated that they’re actively in the streets marching something is wrong.

if numbers of rioters demanding reasonable conditions like due legal process, access to water, preventing destruction of sacred lands, an end to racially biased police brutality, false imprisonment, or the active assult of hate groups upon them

maaaybe if you actually addressed those issues theyd stop rioting so often

the whole point to a riot is that these people

would fucking LOVE to not have to do this

living in a world where protest is not necessary is the goal

thinking that riots are a natural part of life instead of a sign that something is severely wrong is part of the problem. treating riots as a disease rather then a symptom means you arent fixing the right problem