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Originally Posted by Siege
Umm. Maybe it's just me. But allowing a Nazi group to march and not expect violence is more than a little short sighted.
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Um, actually, that's irrelevant. They
did expect a violent reaction. That's why the police were there to escort them.
What your response seems to actually say is that the Nazis shouldn't have been allowed to march. It's their Constitutional right to peaceable assembly. They didn't provoke anyone, they didn't kill any Jews, they didn't light any American flags on fire. They just
marched. How does that justify violence?
As a side note, this sort of incident is exactly why my opinion stays firm in the New Orleans cop thread. Whenever people are in a mob, they get stupid and violent. That doesn't make it OK. I support any means necessary to stop violent riots, because when rioting is happening,
I am suddenly endangered.
In case you didn't read it, the rioters started by throwing rocks. At some point, that escalated to breaking windows, flipping a car and lighting it on fire (at a gas station mind you... bunch of rocket scientists they must have been), and setting a building on fire. I think the cops should have used a lot less restraint and a lot more "shooting people in the head."
And yes, I understand that would have just escalated the situation. Of course the police can't
actually kill the rioters. But the fact is this riot was not the fault of the Nazis, nor was it the fault of the police. It was the fault of the rioters, and every single one of them should pay the price.