Dem Senator Wants To Neuter The Police
BLM and anti-police libs have been protesting non-stop ever since Floyd was killed by Officer Chauvin. Libs can't accept that Chauvin is an extreme outlier and worse they think that defunding the police is somehow supposed to prevent a situation like Floyd from happening again, which is beyond unrealistic. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) feels that he has the solution to brute force, he wants to disarm police officers so that they can no longer control crowds. He specifically wants to prevent officers from using tear gas, rubber bullets, and bean bag rounds. So all of the non-lethal means to stop rioters...
"Our streets are not meant to be battlefields, and law enforcement shouldn’t be using weapons of war against protestors and other Americans,” said Senator Markey. “Law enforcement’s use of tear gas also compounds the effects of structural racism, because we know communities of color are already suffering disproportionately during this global respiratory pandemic. It’s time we stop using these potentially lethal weapons against our own people."
He also tweeted about it.
"Portland police routinely attack peaceful protestors with brute force. We must disarm these officers, and every other police department in America, of weapons of war, and enact a nationwide ban on tear gas, rubber and plastic bullets, and bean bag rounds."
Detroit Police Chief James Craig responded to the Senator's ridiculous proposal.
"...When are we going to start talking about disarming criminals? I've been on the record. I support law-abiding citizens to be armed, but criminals?"
And so it's OK to attack police officers and then everyone always says one thing. 'These were peaceful protesters.' So I guess when you throw Molotov cocktails, railroad spikes, other projectiles, using green lasers, I guess that constitutes being peaceful. We have never tried to stop folks from their right to free speech. We've been dealing with this for in excess of 100 days. Six instances where we've had to use force because they were either attacking us or they resisted a lawful arrest."
This is so counterproductive. Do we want police to move back to billy clubs, or just aiming low? These crowd control tools are meant to be non-lethal. They are far better than any lethal option and are only used when things get violent. How is it that the police are supposed to keep the peace if we take all of their tools away from them? Crowd control tools are necessary especially nowadays when protests are often turning into riots.