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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
what about them? they are not constitutional. ignore them. if you have 4,000 people at a protest OUTSIDE the BS free speech zone, what the hell are the local police going to do? arrest everybody?
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Speaking from experience, they grab the loudest, beat him or her, and then arrest him or her. A few hours later, the video shows up on youtube and finds it's way to reddit, where it's seen by maybe 40,000 people. Complaints are called in, but by the time all is said and done, the loudest protester has been in jail for several days and is somehow facing assaulting an officer charges. Meinwhile, the police continue to antagonize the protesters, who are on the verge of losing their shit because a brave and innocent person was just beaten and arrested in front of them, and then someone in the protest does something stupid and the whole protest is marginalized as violent and is forgotten. And that's if we're lucky. If we're unlucky, tons of cops will show up suddenly out of nowhere in riot gear and will start to fire gas cannisters into the crowd and things will get really ugly.