Baffling that this is what they choose to run with when there are far more concrete examples of violence, perhaps because that mostly doesn’t require tools, whereas in Hong Kong the government had no showreel of looted stores and burning cars to work with.
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Defensive equipment after months of being attacked and maimed is preparations for violence? How dare those protestors. They should take their beatings until morale improves.
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Oh yeah, we got that same reaction in France too. That, journalists getting their cameras confiscated bc they might be weaponized, etc. If you come looking like you might be ready for things to get violent, obviously it means you're planning on being violent! Obviously! /sarcasm
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The problem is there are two groups, people actually protesting, and people actually rioting. The people rooting keep trying to hide under the guise of protesting. But, were also being spoon-fed select videos and information so no one has the whole story.
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Actually there is one group. Property destruction is a valid expression of protest. Any attempt to categorize protesters as good and bad is transparently used to justify violence against them.
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also, how is a shield an offensive weapon ? how does a mask get used to commit violence ? these are 'preparations for violence' only in the sense that they are necessary to defend against unmarked federal agent violence..
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Duh because protesters are using shields like this /spic.twitter.com/L6SiRf5WzE
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Text book behavior from regimes (Venezuelan's protests of 2014, 2017)
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Have you been confirmed yet, Chad?
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