Re:US police three times as likely to use force against left...
by Udik on Thursday January 14, 2021 @02:43PM
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Being confrontational doesn't mean being violent. Non-violent ways to be confrontational can include refusing to disperse, not staying within the previously agreed spaces (if any), occupying public space, harassing the police, etc. And the sheer mass of protesters can be already intimidating and cause a police reaction if things are not extremely well managed.
Btw, I was looking for large right-wing rallies in the US, and couldn't find any. The "unite the right" rally seems to have gathered a few hundred people in all. Compare with the largest BLM rally in Washington DC, 200 thousand people. How do you compare these two (even if the participants to the first are nazi-like nutters and those of the other are normal left-wing citizens)?
And the "unite the right" are the nutters. Where are the large (tens of thousands of participants) rallies of the moderate right? Like the "keep taxes low" rally and the "no medicare" rally?
Re:US police three times as likely to use force against left...
by triceratops on Thursday January 14, 2021 @04:17PM
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> Like the "keep taxes low" rally and the "no medicare" rally?
You'll see them if there's a threat of taxes going up or Medicare for all passing.
“ The disparity in police response only grew when comparing peaceful leftwing versus rightwing protests. Looking at the subset of protests in which demonstrators did not engage in any violence, vandalism, or looting, law enforcement officers were about 3.5 times more likely to use force against leftwing protests than rightwing protests, with about 1.8% of peaceful leftwing protests and only half a percent of peaceful rightwing protests met with teargas, rubber bullets or other force from law enforcement.”
So it’s actually worse when you take into account how peaceful the protests were.