• Adderbox76
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    547 months ago

    They don’t care. The purpose wasn’t to charge them, since the powers-that-be already know that protesting isn’t a crime.

    The purpose was to get them off the scene. It doesn’t matter that the charges are automatically dropped, what matters is that they drag the protesters away in that moment.

    • @[email protected]
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      217 months ago

      As long as there’s no consequences for this kind of Pinkerton shit, it’s only going to get worse.

    • ivanafterall
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      207 months ago

      And to deter others thinking of protesting. “You can’t do this, see?” Historically, that usually works, right? People just settle down and go home?

    • @[email protected]
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      7 months ago

      Why isn’t the very act of disturbing their protest by violence unconstitutional? (Edit: unless the protesters are infringing somebody’s right to property ofc)