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Originally Posted by Rochard
They make it look like it was perfectly peaceful, but the truth is they were violating some silly law. It's easy to say "They were sitting on the sidewalk" but the truth is they were disturbing the peace, blocking the sidewalk, whatever. The police ordered them to move or to leave, they refused, police went to arrest them, they resisted arrest, and when you resist arrest you get a shot of pepper spray.
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That's kind of the point, isn't it? The law only seems to apply to the little guy.
The power elite get away with criminality on MASSIVE scale, and no one ever gets arrested. On the flip side, if a couple of "average citizens" sit peacefully on the wrong piece of ground and they get the full force of the law thrown at them.