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Originally Posted by Pierre
Which you can do now.
So pub/ restaurants were still on lockdown then, but they are not now.
Either way you cut it, the restrictions were tighter during the BLM protests, that they are now.
Therefore the police response is not proportionate.
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That's fine. I was only saying we weren't in Full lockdown at that point.
I don't think the restrictions now are more than they were then. I don't actually know why the police stopped this protest but as I said since they were protesting the rules on COVID I wouldn't be surprised they broke the rules on COVID.
I think a lot of the times it's about how much the people 'push it'. The police would have turned a blind-eye to some rule breaking as it's not fesible or sensible to arrest everyone who isn't social distancing or wearing a mask but if you have mass rule breaking then that can only go so far.
I don't have a strong opinion on the BLM marches or this one breaking the rules though. They both seemed pretty risky.