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Is this REALLY necessary? Pictures of Anaheim police.
I mean.. I can't believe this shit. Look at how the police came out.. suited up as if this was Iraq 2003...
we need more revolutions and less "isms"
And this was in response to?
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peeps protesting at the police station over the shootings of 2 un armed "gang members"
we need more revolutions and less "isms"
Are those guns with regular bullets or rubber bullets? Also what's the source on that picture?
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It's all about intimidation.
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bean "non-lethal" bullets.. just google.. Anaheim police SWAT at protest today. you will see more pics..
we need more revolutions and less "isms"
Do they actually want the situation to escalate? Confronting a bunch of pissed off folk with goons in camouflage carrying guns and (from the looks of it) wearing shades is straight out of the fucking Evil Overlord's Handbook for Crushing the Downtrodden Masses.
Expecting anything but a heavy police presence was always out of the question, but this is stupid. Sure, a protest around a cop station turning nasty looks bad (from their perspective), but this kind of hyperbolic reaction is demonstrably provocative.
Kettling is provocative, but the action of the protestors is confined by the cops who also serve to isolate them from the rest of the urban environment. The kind of macho idiocy displayed by the Anaheim police in the OP could lead to a loss of control on their part.
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Of course it's not necessary. But that's hardly a question to ask when the cops are on you.
overwhelming shows of force have actually been a fairly successful tactic for the police
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If there were a few thousand more cops you could have re-enacted the climax from the new Batman movie
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This shit is ridiculous. From a normal man's point of view, of course. I can only guess that the tactic of "send someone looking like the army so the people shit their pants" is perfectly sound from the viewpoint of the police.
It's scare tactics and a very obvious display of it. There ought to be someone from LA with some experience from previous protests who will come to Anaheim and explain to the people how to act in this kind of situation and explain some common protest tactics and civil rights. I know the pigs don't really give a shit about that, but just in case.
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Well, it worked pretty fucking well seeing as my mom wouldn't let me go protest in Anaheim because she feared for my safety.
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It's a joke end of.
It's scare tactics necessary to keep the Capitalists safe and the Interests of the Capitalists safe and not much else, the same thing is occurring in Russia with the Punks arrested for Criticizing Putin and USA with the people that were shot by the police.
"Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."
— Mao Zedong
Yeah, no wonder folks call policing in the US: "the occupation".
Over the last couple of decades, the US government has been basically giving local police forces military supplies - armored vehicles and all kinds of crazy shit in the name of the "war on drugs".
It is intimidation because as much as cops are legally protected, they also need the sense of invincibility and above-the-lawness in order to operate as they currently do. To bring in the arrests that they do on drug offenses and everything, they need to be able to search anyone or stop any car - technically they need consent for this, but it's easy to get around it - but if everyone put up resistance each time the looked for drugs (I've read that 90-95% of searches result in nothing so they have to search a lot of people to make the numbers of arrests they do) then their job would be much more difficult. That's why they treat it as a personal affront or attack if you resist (or even question) their "informal" (i.e. not legal unless you comply) orders. If you don't comply, they will harass the shit out of you, run and they beat you (or shoot you as is the case here in Oakland with Alan Blueford as well as with both people murdered in Anaheim).
So public protest like this is not just any protest (which they would also use intimidation tactics on anyway depending on the protest) it's a direct threat. In their minds, if people can protest and force cops to be held accountable, then everyone will go around filming the daily harassment by cops and cops won't be able to push people around as easily.
Yeah, I rode past that bar when I was in Oakland and asked "why hasn't anybody burnt that shit down?", but I guess some broken windows will do.
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The LAPD are of course the past masters of overwhelming force vs. any troublemakers and total ruthlessness, the Rodney King revolt, Watts in 1964, hell, the McNamara trial back in 1910.
Having been there and done that, indeed they could give the wannabes in Anaheim some lessons in when to go for the kill and when not to.
Let's hope they don't.
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They look fucking ridiculous
They look like soldiers.
