So are Australians just fine with the normalization of police using rubber bullets and other projectile weapons to get rid of protesters now? That the sort of country we all agree we want to live in from now on?
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Because we all know this is the norm now, right? That they'll be using these weapons to drive peaceful protesters out of any area they're not wanted, including peaceful protesters whose positions we happen to support? We all understand this isn't a one-off thing, right? #auspol
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Is that what we want? It's important for us all to come up with a concrete collective yes or no answer to this question that will stick for the foreseeable future, because that call is currently being made for us.
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And we want to live in a nation where police assault peaceful protesters with less-lethal rounds if those protesters are protesting without the permission of the police, do we? That's what we want to have in place, permanently, going forward?
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You disagreeing with someone doesn't make them "violent". So you believe it's fine to physically assault someone for "disrespecting" an inanimate object?
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If it’s to disperse a crowd of violent thugs who wish to endanger the rest of society and disrespect the shrine of remembrance (WW2 soldiers) then it’s a big YES
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Seems that way to me, too.
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No, the normalising of police violence with military armament is a much more dangerous situation than any protest/riot no matter if it's deluded or not.
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Any use of force by Victorian police must be "reasonable, necessary and proportionate to the threat posed by an incident." Does that look like that's the case in this video? Does firing on retreating protesters for not moving fast enough count? #auspol
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Australians Need To Decide If This Is The Kind Of Country We Want To Live In From Now On
"The way police are dealing with protesters today is the way they're going to deal with them from now on, unless we do something."
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It wasn't peaceful.
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