What is excessive about that?A jury has cleared the city of Portland, Oregon and two police officers of using excessive force during an Occupy protest in November 2011, when a demonstrator was struck in the throat with a baton and sprayed with pepper spray into her open mouth.
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I’m sure.According to Kenneth Kreuscher, [one of defendant Elizabeth] Nichols' attorneys, officers went beyond their orders to secure a bank branch during the Occupy Portland protest.
David Landrum, the lead attorney for the city of Portland, countered that the protest was unruly and officers simply responded to a threat. In a court motion, city attorneys wrote that Nichols “actively, physically resisted lawful police instructions to move off the sidewalk” and “aggressively moved as if to attack” the police.
Heavily armed riot police being paid by taxpayers to guard a private bank isn’t bad enough. They get to beat up on civilians exercising their right to peaceful protest.
And isn’t that a quaint law? You have the right to peaceful protest. Since there is zero chance of that ever changing anything, how gracious of your overlords to permit it. Only, then they bring out their goons to shoot you with rubber bullets, launch shock grenades at you, club you with batons, and spray you with capsicum.
Here, you Oregon weenies. Here you are doing your duty as private bank guards. Think there's enough of you?
And here are police actually being attacked by citizens. This is Northern Ireland. See the bricks on the ground? That riot shield looks like it won't be standing up to too many more hits.
Dozens of police officers have been injured in Belfast after clashes broke out during protests against a rally marking the anniversary of the introduction of imprisonment without trial in Northern Ireland.
About 26 police officers were injured, five requiring hospital treatment, when they were attacked with missiles by crowds in the city centre, police said.
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