Metropolitan police approved their use at Notting Hill carnival and Black Lives Matter protests in 2020
  • NuPNuA@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • Kuori [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      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