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Originally Posted by Sparkle
Masque, I'd suggest you familiarise yourself with what 20,000 people look like in a protest. At the recent demos, there were localised areas of disorder, that is not the same as a riot. The images you saw on television were about the only scenes of violence, out of a crowd of at least 20,000. Does that really constitute a riot in the greater scheme of things?
If so, then it was merely a small riot. If only a few thousand police can manage to keep their form without water cannon or rubber bullets against a group of 20,000 or more, then it really can't be that much of a riot.
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Make an educated guess.
I'm at work now so can't provide any links for streaming media, but I can do so later if you wish.
Youtube search "greek riot dog" for some interesting clips. They use petrol bombs, explosives, and anything they can get their hands on - and these rioters obviously come prepared. Snooker balls and urine bags are childs play to the modern aspiring mainland European rioter.  |
Good ,i'm pleased it is just childs play ,i'm pleased the police have managed to contain a small riot and stop it escalating into a large greek style riot ,that means they are doing a sterling job ..don't you think ,or do you want to see them escalate ?.
I don't know if you realise it but the police as part of their riot training look at riots such as you have used as an example and have developed techniques ,such as kettling to stop them escalating .I'm sure Derek or anyone else with experience in this sort of thing ,including people who have served in N Ireland with attest to the fact that it only takes a few individuals to mix with genuine protesters to spark a violent riot and if not contained willl very quickly escalate into a full fledged violent riot where death and serious injury can result .This is what the police are tasked with preventing and if a few students get a bit squashed ,bruised or generally inconvenienced then tough they will have to deal with it