Is there a specific point at which police are or are not allowed to pepper spray people? Use tasers? Use other hopefully non-lethal force like this? These videos are really sad and I wonder when these actions are actually acceptable.
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The Geneva Convention permits the use of tear gas for non military crowd control purposes. It's use is simply prohibited for military purposes. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/aug/26/facebook-p...
You provide a link that directly contradicts your claim. First of all, the Geneva Conventions (plural) are about treatment of prisoners of war , not agents or munitions used. Your given link refers to the Chemical Weapons convention , but its scope is specific to wartime use between combatants. The Hague convention has munitions provisions, but the USA is not a signatory.
There are multiple Geneva Conventions, true. One of them deals with POWs. Other Conventions deal with other war-related topics. If you want to be technical about it, the one prohibiting the use of gas is formally known as the Geneva Protocol.
I linked to the CWC because that is the relevant international convention allowing for the use of tear gas in non-military contexts. IOW, the GP creates the ban, but the CWC provides an exception.)
Re: Caught on camera, police explode in rage and violence across the US
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Here's just one example: https://www.whec.com/rochester-new-york-news/rpd-asking-for-... Animals.
Animals? Lemme guess, thin blue line, thugs, etc? How about credit where credit is due - systemic police racism, and when that was protested, insane amounts of police brutality. All people had to do was not be racist.
I'm talking about the video I linked. Did you watch it?
The looters in this video are acting like animals.
More links to the same incident: https://twitter.com/PatrolRpd/status/1267202275895803904 https://streamable.com/ibwexe?fbclid=IwAR3Kmn22FzFgxAHTxNfiu...
Re: Caught on camera, police explode in rage and violence across the US
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Animals? Lemme guess, thin blue line, thugs, etc? How about credit where credit is due - systemic police racism, and when that was protested, insane amounts of police brutality. All people had to do was not be racist.
I'm talking about the video I linked. Did you watch it? The looters in this video are acting like animals. More links to the same incident: https://twitter.com/PatrolRpd/status/1267202275895803904 https://streamable.com/ibwexe?fbclid=IwAR3Kmn22FzFgxAHTxNfiu...
I've only ever heard protesters described as "animals" by people that are also happy to throw around the word "thug" and smugly pretend both aren't racist dogwhistles.
Re: Caught on camera, police explode in rage and violence across the US
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I'm talking about the video I linked. Did you watch it? The looters in this video are acting like animals. More links to the same incident: https://twitter.com/PatrolRpd/status/1267202275895803904 https://streamable.com/ibwexe?fbclid=IwAR3Kmn22FzFgxAHTxNfiu...
I've only ever heard protesters described as "animals" by people that are also happy to throw around the word "thug" and smugly pretend both aren't racist dogwhistles.
You are attempting to put a positive spin on their behavior by calling them protesters.
No. They are rioters and looters, and guilty of aggravated battery.
This has nothing to do with race. It has to do with behavior.