Imaginos1892 wrote:Gee, I don't know, maybe the priests were removed for their own safety because there was a fucking RIOT going on outside, and the church had already been torched once?
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You can't have the government take away the freedom of only the people you hate.
Actually, there was no riot. It would have been more like a picnic. The priests were out mingling with the crowd passing out bottles of water. The best thing that could be said for their dispersal was that it was clumsy.
There is a question that anyone even had the right to disperse them. They had the constitutional right to assemble in th He public square seeking redress for their grievances as long as the protests stayed peaceful. And so far as I can tell that is exactly what they were doing.
As for the rioting, yeah when that happens, it needs to be dealt with. People who injure or kill others, wantonly destroy property and loot need to be arrested and tried in a court of law.
But the thing is, about 90+ percent of the protesters were peaceful. The other 10 percent were people sent in from the outside along with less savory elements from the locals. These people mingle with 90 percent trying to agitate things into a full riot. Or they slip to the outside of a crowd and commit some act of destruction and then melt back into the crowd before they can be caught.
As far as I can tell, there were White Supremists present in Minneapolis. Antifa from the left may have been present as well, but that has not been documented to the point where it can be assumed.
Don
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