Thanks Grape, I do see where Mr. SKraut is coming from. And he is a fellow WI forum member. I'm not riled in the least.
I'm not paying my paramilitary to express themselves while on the clock. They can take up finger painting at the YMCA in their off time. In fact I think most of them should.
I could care less what displeases the cops. They have a job to do. Do it. And do it right. The world is watching. People displease me when I am working. Especially thug cops who infringe on my 1st Amendment Right. I don't think I could get away with macing them in the face. Although after being shoved up against walls, having them scream in my face, run me off public parks, public parking, making my clients cry, and threatening me with arrests on multiple occasions over the last 17 years...
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The cops have the same rights as we do. No more or less.
If you are saying that cops macing someone in the face is an act of expression covered under the 1st Amendment I would disagree. Violently disagree. Macing someone in the face is assault and battery. Had the protesters been beating the cops with clubs, fists, and rocks then it would have been a completely different situation. Had they been kicking and lashing out in an attempt to resist a lawful arrest? Then pepper spray would of course be justified.
I have said there are plenty of videos on Youtube of the protesters roughing up journalists and amateur photographers as well. I have posted them to this forum. So it's not like I have been anti-cop/pro-protesters in this discussion. I am pro Constitution. All of it. Including the parts the brainwashed here hate and insist are just some lefty whimpering excuses for bad behavior. I guess you can tell I hate brainwashed kool aid drinkers too and am pro - think for yourself.
