Protesters face police in Chicago

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Protesters face police in Chicago

Published: 21 May 2012 at 00.40
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CHICAGO : Protesters streamed into downtown Chicago Sunday for one of the city's largest demonstrations in years - a march to the lakeside convention center hosting a historic Nato summit.

Screen grab from WGN Chicago shows confrontation between police and protesters early Monday Thailand time.

The largest demonstration of the summit weekend ended late Sunday with a tense scuffle between protesters and police, with officers wielding batons and some demonstrators throwing bottles and other debris.

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sandman
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Discussion 7 : 21 May 2012 at 16.197
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re D4 - Bkposter

Yeah...and notice that the protesters, despite coming from the country in the world with the most guns per head of population, were not shooting at the police with rifles, assault weapons, grenade launchers, slingshots and improvised firework rocket launchers, nor building petrol soaked tyre barricades topped off with bamboo spikes. Nor did they take over road intersections and squares and declare them police no go zones and start frisking down any person entering those areas.

How about you sit down and try to learn the difference between an unruly mass protest and organised and well funded armed civil insurrection.

I can assure you sparky that had the UDD tried their little civil war in London, Paris, Berlin or any other capital in the west there would have been a significant and swft fully armed response, and there would now be a lot more people serving longer sentences, and any mention of amnesty and compensation would be laughed off the table.
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Discussion 6 : 21 May 2012 at 16.166
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Demonstrations, riots and so on can happen everywhere the question is how the authorities handle it.
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Discussion 5 : 21 May 2012 at 15.505
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Discussion 4; for once I totally agree with you!! The police are indeed prepared in crowd control and are imposing the no-go zone. If the protesters go there they are subdued and taken to prison and charged with terrorism. In BKK the red thugs got carte blanche from the police who stood by and smiled. And be sure that if the protesters in Chicago would start shooting bullets and grenades at the security forces and civilians; the army would step in and shoot back.... like anywhere else in the world. And those shooters would not be able to play the victims later and get compensated for their terrorist acts; they would face tens of years in jail... without bail. i hope this universal truth is not too heavy for you to absorb
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Discussion 4 : 21 May 2012 at 12.564
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RE: D2 Notice that the police did not shoot people down in the streets also and were properly prepared in crowd control.
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Discussion 3 : 21 May 2012 at 09.023
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I thought Thai police did a decent job. Lets see how the US police responds if protesters starting throwing smoke bombs and firecrackers.
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Discussion 2 : 21 May 2012 at 08.232
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At least they did not shoot bullets and grenades at the security forces like the red thugs did over here.....but its good they are heavily penalized and labeled terrorists....
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Discussion 1 : 21 May 2012 at 07.051
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Thai police should study the videos.
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