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In reply to the discussion: Show me what a police state looks like! (Graphic! Dial-up warning!) Updated with livestream link [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)Two Iraq War Vets, eg, were nearly killed, one 80 something year old woman who remembers Nazi Germany, I'll take her view of what happened to her. She was pulled to safety by protesters, but her interview later was enlightening as to what her thoughts are on the state of our militarized police today and her memories of a different time. A very brave woman.
At least three cars rammed into protesters sending several to the hospital, one this weekend driven by a cop. We do not know the condition of the person who was reported to be seriously injured, the cop was not arrested.
People in wheelchairs, one who was unable to breathe after being tear-gassed and left in the middle of the road, unable to leave, saved again by protesters, no police helped. And when people went to help Scott Olsen, the cops shot at THEM, preventing them from getting to him.
I could go on, but personally I think I've seen enough to convince me that someone in authority needs to step in, as requested by the UN, to protect the American people from the police, BEFORE someone dies.
There was a report over the weekend that a protester had died, thankfully that turned out not to be true, the person was injured.
No one in this country should end up in the hospital at the hands of the police whose salaries they pay to protect them, simply for going to a protest. The fact that so many have, is a disgrace.