A Policemans Lot

[Mich the Tester]

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

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[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.

[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?

[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...

[Mich the Tester]

What would you do to a 7 year old who pissed on you while you were taking cover from a sniper?

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

[Churchill]

You have the right to assembly (except near the Houses of Parliament), the right to peaceful protest(unless your outside the socialist narrow views of acceptability)I could just about tolerate stone throwing... but would take the intent of throwing a Molotov cocktail as an act intended to kill, maim or disfigure me.

Justifiable use of a firearm me'thinks!

What would you do to a 7 year old who pissed on you while you were taking cover from a sniper?

[Mich the Tester]

Does it matter? Collective responsibility.

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.

[lilelvis2000]

I certainly hope those idiots that threw a molatov cocktail (or similar) into that bank yesterday, killing three people inside, get the book thrown at them. I was seriously surprised that the demo continued after that.

[Scary]

I'd be more worried about getting the hell away from the pool of burning petrol than standing there trying to figure out who in a crowd of several hundred ( or thousand ) protesters actually threw it.

Does it matter? Collective responsibility.

[DaveB]

Watching the riots in Greece .... if you were a armed policeman and someone threw a petrol bomb at you.

Would you shoot that person?..... I would

I'd be more worried about getting the hell away from the pool of burning petrol than standing there trying to figure out who in a crowd of several hundred ( or thousand ) protesters actually threw it.

[Troll]

Maybe that's why you're not an armed policeman in Greece.

You have the right to assembly (except near the Houses of Parliament), the right to peaceful protest(unless your outside the socialist narrow views of acceptability)I could just about tolerate stone throwing... but would take the intent of throwing a Molotov cocktail as an act intended to kill, maim or disfigure me.

Justifiable use of a firearm me'thinks!

[Mich the Tester]

I wonder how the Greek police feel about all this, seeing as they are also public employees who are likely to see their remuneration cut.

[threaded]

Watching the riots in Greece .... if you were a armed policeman and someone threw a petrol bomb at you.

Would you shoot that person?..... I would

Maybe that's why you're not an armed policeman in Greece.

[Troll]

Watching the riots in Greece .... if you were a armed policeman and someone threw a petrol bomb at you.

Would you shoot that person?..... I would