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too busy to poke around google right now, but does anyone have more information on this? I'm curious why the demonstration was originally dispersed in the first place.
I think the video itself is not enough to condemn the police.
I also think that it's a little abusrd to call the US in 2007 a 'police state', as it betrays a historical ignorance as to the kind and levels of state violence usually employed by states with which we associate that term. Now of course when I say that we aren't a police state, I mean that only as a statement of current fact and not a blanket underneath which to duck my head and hide, justifying any and all measures of state violence. That is to say it's an assessment of the US at present, not a definition.
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