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Metropolitan police approved their use at Notting Hill carnival and Black Lives Matter protests in 2020

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

love to support the police brutalizing black people who are asking the police to stop brutalizing black people

scratch a liberal and suddenly you're drowning in fashie blood, and not in the good way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not asking them to open fire into a peaceful crowd inindiscriminately am I? I'm saying if it kicked off and they started burning buildings and looting like the US BLM riots, then I wouldn't be opposed to the use of the rounds.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

the demonstrations in the u.s. were largely peaceful aside from police violence. a ransacked Target is not worth the police running people over or blinding them with rubber bullets