vermontsavant wrote:
The riots need to stop,this is 3 months now,maybe the LA riots and the Watt's riots were more violent but didn't last long.If this isn't a national emergency,what is?
Since the beginning of the unrest, I've been pointing to several simple de-escalation techniques - let people know their points have been heard and are to be adressed (or at least seriously considered), start an open debate about raised issues, focus only on the most harmful individuals and behaviors during interventions, set boundaries of acceptable protests... anti-government protests are part of local culture here, we've "domesticated" them and use them as a valid part of public debate. The point is to let protesters be heard but not let the protests descend into looting and violence. It works here.
The approach taken by US is completely different: Pepper spray everyone. When they get angry, call for using more force. Then even more force. Then even more force. Then to call national emergency to be able to use even more force.
And it works - not to make people more peaceful but to gain more votes for re-election. The worse the riots, the better Trump's polls.
Politics is an awful, dirty game.
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