A Policemans Lot

[Churchill]

Bring him to the nearest catholic church and tell the priest he needs re-educating/some tender loving care.

Hopefully the little bastard was under the local priests tutelage...

[DaveB]

Does it matter? Collective responsibility.

It does when you are planning on shooting the person you think did it ( as per the OP ).
Or are you advocating the arbitrary execution of any random individual who happens to be in the same area at the time?

[Scary]

Yes it matters. Lots of people go out to protest wanting to make their opinions known noisily but in a non violent way. Can those people really be held responsible for one idiot who uses violence?

If that were the case then everyone who goes to a football match could be held responsible for the idiots who start trouble.

I was being facetious, but that's the way of the world. A protester firebombs a policeman so the protesters deserve everything they get and a policeman ends up killing a protester. The protester was peacefully protesting when caught in the action and killed by a policeman, so the policemen deserve everything they get and can now be the targets of his friends' vengeance.

[Mich the Tester]

Hopefully the little bastard was under the local priests tutelage...

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