… planning to do a crime is not “pre-crime.” It’s conspiracy.
Headline makes it sound like cops waded into one of these diet-Nazi events and picked out counterprotestors. Nah: they’ve presumably had warrants for these specific people on-hand since before all that kicked off.
Police have discretion on which crimes to prioritize. They’re not honor-bound to ticket someone who is double-parked in the middle of a car chase. They can opt not to arrest people for trespassing if it gets them to cooperate with a murder investigation.
Going to arrest pacifists engaging in criminal conspiracy to temporarily block nonessential industry and infrastructure at one location while ignoring ongoing racially motivated assault, looting, and arson is a choice.
I don’t think they were prioritizing one group over the other I think they just did two things at the same time there’s more than like five cops you know.
I would love it if the world would be a better place but I don’t think the way just stop oil protesters are going about it is helping anyone including themselves. Totally understand why they’re arrested.
I don’t think they were prioritizing one group over the other
And you don’t think it’s weird that they don’t prioritize ongoing race riots, arson and assaults over planned pacifist protestors?
Each single cop can’t be in two places at once. Every cop occupied with arresting a pacifist is a cop not occupied with preventing arsonists from burning down a building.
As for disruptive protest not helping, have you looked at politics the past two decades? The general public loves disruptive protest.
… planning to do a crime is not “pre-crime.” It’s conspiracy.
Headline makes it sound like cops waded into one of these diet-Nazi events and picked out counterprotestors. Nah: they’ve presumably had warrants for these specific people on-hand since before all that kicked off.
Police have discretion on which crimes to prioritize. They’re not honor-bound to ticket someone who is double-parked in the middle of a car chase. They can opt not to arrest people for trespassing if it gets them to cooperate with a murder investigation.
Going to arrest pacifists engaging in criminal conspiracy to temporarily block nonessential industry and infrastructure at one location while ignoring ongoing racially motivated assault, looting, and arson is a choice.
I don’t think they were prioritizing one group over the other I think they just did two things at the same time there’s more than like five cops you know.
I would love it if the world would be a better place but I don’t think the way just stop oil protesters are going about it is helping anyone including themselves. Totally understand why they’re arrested.
And you don’t think it’s weird that they don’t prioritize ongoing race riots, arson and assaults over planned pacifist protestors?
Each single cop can’t be in two places at once. Every cop occupied with arresting a pacifist is a cop not occupied with preventing arsonists from burning down a building.
As for disruptive protest not helping, have you looked at politics the past two decades? The general public loves disruptive protest.