Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
What I don't understand is why these violent thugs are not locked up. Start handing out multiyear sentences and these protests vanish.
We also need special protest control laws to allow mass arrests and detentions when a protest is out of control. They had an incident in Washington with a bunch of out of control thugs the police were trying to arrest and some so-called innocent bystanders were caught up in it. Of course, they all sued for false arrest, etc and got big settlements.
Couldnt agree with you more, they should have police in the background with video cameras taping the entire thing on the front lines, and the second a molatov cocktail comes in they start lobbing stun grenades/tear gas into the crowd, arrest everyone and sort it out with video evidence at the end. They could even use the bean bag guns to take down the assholes causing destruction right in front of their faces, if one of these little dickwads got popped by one of those while he is breaking a store front window i guarantee he is not making a speedy get away. If you are to stupid to clear out of the front lines of a riot when people are lobbing molatov cocktails and wrecking shit, you deserve the teargas. Also offer up 20000 dollar rewards to anyone who sells out one of these guys causing insane amounts of damage, we will see just how anti-establishment these guys really are when presented with more money then they have ever seen in their miserable lives.
If you get caught doing this shit, you get the maximum the law will allow, in cases of arson and breaking into store buildings they could be looking at multiple years in jail, or else even create laws where they are also charged with the subsequent damage which follows by other assholes doing the same thing.
If tear gas, bean bag guns, and stun grenades can stop prison riots with hardened criminals, I guarantee they can stop out of control little dickwad liberals this way.
I am not much of a supporter of giving police more power, but if they had video evidence of everything being done then i think that would also keep them in check to some extent.
Bottom line is something has to be done, what do you say to the guy who owned a store that got trashed, and looted for tens of thousands of damage, while the police just watched, if the guy isnt making a ton of cash he has a monster bill he has to sit on while he waits for insurance to figure it out, and in most cases when dealing with insurance companies you have to battle with them in court to cover lost wages, because you will never get the proper settlement. If there is someone who is a business owner sitting right on the edge of bankruptcy as it is right now, and his store was a target he is out of business due to these thugs.
As it stands we basically give these idiots a free pass, while they rack up 100's of millions, or billions of dollars in damages.