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Originally Posted by cam_girls
OK, the footpath in the front of YOUR HOUSE is PUBLIC PROPERTY.
What if 50 hippies pitch 50 tents there for say... 6 months!
The police ask them to move on. THEY DON'T.
Public Property is SHARED PROPERTY - you can't pitch a tent and squat there!
Pepper spray is ideal to dissolve the situation from potential harm.
You simply can't disobey police face to face.
You can't do it on your own.
You can't do it with a few mates.
You might THINK YOU CAN DO IT in a crowd of 50 disobedients
but YOU are escalating the problem, not the police.
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not to discount what you said but i am pretty sure this was on a campus, not public property but private property , and one that i imagine the students had paid to be on, makes it a bit different scenario
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Originally Posted by cam_girls
When police say DISPERSE it's for a reason!
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that just sounds like sheep talk.
Lets take a hypothetical situation, you are having a birthday party in a local park with 20-30 friends, a group of armed police suddenly show up and say "disperse this riot now or you will be pepper sprayed" ..
Would you run to your car or would you say "hey i think you have made a mistake , this is just a birthday party".
Lets imagine you chose the latter like 99% of people would
and then got pepper sprayed.. would you say the pepper spraying was justified simply because the officer warned you and no consideration for the facts of what happened matter ?