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  • First off I wanna know why they are sitting in the middle of the street. take it somewhere else. go sit in a park or something. Secondly, you're lucky you're in the United States because acting crazy like this and yelling in the faces of officers in another country would have changed this whole scenario. Youd be in a lot more pain and they may not have used rubber bullets on ya.

  • @JBurhenn253 It's not luck they're in America. If they were in a 3rd world, war torn country they'd have been armed as well and ready for a reaction like this as opposed to staging a peaceful protest on a public street that was payed for with tax dollars. Since this is the US our law enforcement and military are supposed o be protecting the people they open fired on in his clip.

  • Peace through bad words ?

    I am guessing that's passion.

    

  • They broke up a peaceful protest. Cops are fucktards.

  • @UhMysteryGuest They escalated a peaceful protest to a riot.

  • 'Nonviolent protestor' is the name for a liberal who thinks as long as they don't conduct physical violence that they can break whatever laws and statutes they want. An annoyance overall.

  • hahah hippie faggots.

  • NIGGA FUCK DA POLICE FUCK NYPD LAPD SFPD SDPD PPD SPD CPD AND ALL DA REST

  • hahaah that cowards police¡¡¡¡ i wanna see confront to true violent protest¡¡¡

  • Are you kidding me?

    You people are fucked up.

    It doesn't matter if it 'would have worked' or not. It's the fact that they actually had the ball's to stand up to our fucked up law inforcement and stand for what they beleived in.

    I hope you get maced, and beated so i can smile at that.

    Damn, our society is just wrong.

    They weren't causing trouble, no fire arm's. No violence.

    You people go by the normal societies view's on 'hippies' mabye you should do some research. they are why we're free.

  • @longstrangetrip1 throw bottles,sticks , petards, fireworks to police why not? they provocate the violence no?

  • The police look so cool. I'm glad they stop those fucking hippies from singing it was horrible.

  • Every time I see one of those hippie fucker maced or beaten it makes me smile:)

  • If I remember right and this was the same protest they were blocking the road for the trucks taking medical supplies and such to Ft Lewis.

  • Those hippies got owned,honestly I don't know why they are protesting 1 it won't work 2 they are just causing trouble it is thier fault the riot police have to be there

  • fuck the police all over the world! they like violence too! someone from.. greece!

  • What if they were hippies ??? They didn't hurt shit.... -.-

  • Fuck the police they know nothing what we are fighting for is peace to end this god damn war! This mother fucking nation is full of people who are so self centered. Fight for freedom and FUCK THIS WAR.

  • Is this NOT a case for self-defense?? The right of self-defense, resistance against attack (also called, when it applies to the defense of another, alter ego defense, defense of others, defense of a third person) is the right for civilians acting on their own behalf to engage in violence for the sake of defending one's own life or the lives of others, including the use of deadly force.

  • Try that shit at a Tea party rally, and as soon as anyone hears gunfire from the cop side, there will be return fire from the patriot side.

  • stupid hippies

  • the video doesn't give details about the protest. just one piece of time during the confrontation between the police and protesters. would have been nice to have more of the story. not even a time and place was given. though the people were speaking English so that point of reference was good. I did not see the people being violent, but the police were. but the people were occupying important space.

  • @curiouschem Check out the article linked in the description.

  • law enforcement in america fucking disgusts me, fucking gestapo pigs

  • JIPIES¡¡¡¡

  • well, the teargas seems to work properly....

  • The police were responding to the violent action of the protesters sitting down

  • Stupid hippies your singing and sitting is doing nothing but pissing off the police and your going to get your ass beat. If you really thing that the government is oppressive get violent show them you're not tacking shit from them. but you are bunch of pussy. And I like the chick who's acting like she dieing lol bitch and before you yell at me yes I have been tear gassed so fuck you

  • lol, I love how people claim "OMG OPPRESSION."

    No, oppression would be live rounds, followed by them exterminating your family, as well as the rest of your kind.

  • In the red corner weighing in at just over 100 people hippies and in the blue corner weighing in at just under 40 people the cops. Lets get ready to rumble.

  • NYC, that's like a 250-pound retarded manchild fighting a 140 pound Krav Maga specialist.

  • An apt comparison.

  • You are a faggots. I wish it woulda been live rounds. Pussies like this are ruining Tacoma.

  • These are not police, they are monsters. They are being used to limit the will of the people, much like the death squads that killed so many revolutionaries...Fuck the police.

  • lol fuck you. Police arn't going anywhere no matter how hard people try, still gunna be here. Its not as if police can calmly tell people that are throwing shit at them or fighting to simply just go home. alot of times force is necessary, the constitution says " supreme law of the land " and civilians causing trouble thinking they rule the streets are wrong.

  • I like how the girl at 1:53 is acting like she's on the verge of death, when all it was was tear gas

  • lol, actors lololololo

  • Do you have any live experience on tear gas? i got a taste of 2% strong (very mild) tear gas during army, and i was pretty much blind and unable to breathe

  • fucking police thugs

  • I also forgot to mention that at 00:47, a guy even picks a damn barricade up.

  • YOU CAN SEE THE DAMN BARRICADES ALL CRUSHED AND BROKEN AT 00:39. There is evidence!

  • So sad those were only rubber bullets. Use FMJ instead and rid this poor Earth of that scum.

  • Tacoma in tha muthafuccin house

  • the meek shall inherit the earth. not fascist assholes like yourself.

  • they deserve a molotov cocktail.

  • i have watched this video a number of times ove the past 2-3 years and it sickens me everytime,,,,,so much for our constitution ,,,,freedom of speech , right to lawful assembly,,i could go on and on

  • LOL!!

  • what is this? North Korea? A nazi regime? NO!! this is America. where we have FREEDOM OF SPEECH and FREEDOM OF PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY

    it was peaceful until the police fired rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowd of kids singing give peace a chance. wat the heck is their problem? are they on crack? I hope they got sued

  • we have limited speech and limited assembly actually...

  • Where the hell do they find these brutal coward pigs that would pull shit llike this on peaceful kids singing give peace a chance? Literally insane.

  • Too bad no body opened fire on those stupid traitors of their own people, everyone knows what the punishment for being a traitor is. Against the people look at them!! How long till the people revolt?Where were the militias!! Say No To The New World Order!!

  • It's REAL funny to me how the dumbfuck Nazis don't account for the wind, when they start chucking the gas,

    LMAO DUMBFUCK TYRRANISTS

  • And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air ,

  • what kind of freedom is this, your not allowed to protest openly causing no violent distrubance without getting shot at...

    I thought we learnt it was wrong the first 100 years, King and Ghandi would be spinning in there grave...

  • im sure theres more to it than that, these ppl were blockin off the roads in the Port of Tacoma, stopping shipping in and out of the city, im sure they were warned.

  • yes... soooo thats the point of civil disobidience; the only thing thats getting hurt is fat bankers wallets

  • negative, theres a lot more thats hurt when blocking off a port. thats also income for the little guy and supplies for the troops

  • OHHH supplies for troops!!!!

    thats what peace protesters want WAR.

    god there are some idiots on this website... man GET OUT OF YOUR MUM AND DADS BOX AND THINK FOR YOURSELF

  • You dont have to support the war, but you cant abandon the men and women of the armed forces. We wouldnt be a country without our military. These men and women are our brothers, fathers, sisters, daughters, sons, and mothers. If you had a family member in the military im sure you would want them to come home in one piece even if you didnt support the reason they were there.

  • of course!!! why do you think i support peace in the first place... for preservation of ALL life. I support the men and woman in the military no end, i just dont like the one wanker that sent them there

  • tacomapunker You are one of the idiots who caused this shit, why dont you join the army you little punk go die for this shit buddy. You have a big mouth buddy and sound like either brainwashed or a punk ass loser, are you getting paid for this junk?

  • That's the whole idea. Make it incredibly difficult for the little guy to supply the troops. The more money and time it costs him, the harder it will be for him to make money from war.

  • Kind of like Africa when they were starving to death.

  • hahahahahahaha sittin on the ground n singing n thats what tha fuck gon happen, if i was the cops i woulda did the same thing. funny shit.

  • savages

  • call that a protest? amateurs

  • U dont fuck with Tacoma police.... trust me on this one, cus i live in tacoma,

  • I think Police should just let these protests go. If the damn hippys want somthing there just going to sit there but if for some reason they fight then kill them.

  • Face it in the end. It is in our nature to destroy ourselves.

  • haha we can't help it

    we were made from chaos

    it's only right we die in it

  • lol that guy at the end got pissed because he got shot in the head by a rubber bullet

  • Fuck these stupid anarchist cunts, kill them all.

  • i find it laughable that you deem standing up for your rights in the constitution and being able to protest peacefully as "anarchistic"

  • Blocking a main road is not apart of your rights, If they had gotten their dumbfuck asses onto the sidewalk there wouldnt have been a problem, you can hear the police saying multiple times to "Get back" yet they don't listen, so they have to use force.

  • If you have to block a main road to get attention then thats a fine way of doing it + therw didnt seem to be much traffic and the only lorry that did go past was in support and stopped! didnt you think that the police were also blocking the road?

    nothing ever, ever requires force; thats in the persons mind any dispute can be settled peacefully.

    The Police are supposted to deal with dangeriys criminals, not ordinary people standing up for what they beilve in.

  • Lol, that was a good one.  I liked it when the cops shot tear gas at the hippies.

  • HA HA

  • There is no solution outside of love!

    Peace be with us all!

  • FUCK THE POLICE.

  • This is by far one of my favorites...Thank you hippie cameraman for posting them.....I show them at work to teach the officers on how to use the control tools(gas) for the best effect. Also, just what qualifies a person to be a "medic" anyway?

  • Good point. Because it is against some laws to describe yourself as a medic if you are not certified. Not to mention it will open yourself up to a lawsuit.

  • lmfao! that was hilarious! allllweee arrreee sayen! boom! haha they didn't even sound like they wanted peace such a shitty efford! lmao teh phail!

  • Clueless left-wing leech-on-society hippy asshats getting exactly what they deserve. Nice.

  • "The Tacoma Police admitted in a debriefing interview at UPS" hahaha called it. Evergreen is spreading I guess. You want to do some good? Go out to lakewood/tillicum and do some work in low income areas. Protest real asshole cops with gestapo attitudes like the ones in fircrest, UP or Ruston. Go help out with beautification projects over in salishan or the east side. Nah, that wouldn't give the same lefty cred on campus. What a bunch of faggots.

  • We do do that. Maybe you should come to campus and see how much community services goes on here.

  • hahah no you don't link some work ever done in the poorer parts of town by UPS students. Volunteering in the north end doesn't count. UPS is a school for upper middle class kids with indulgent parents who were too unremarkable to go to a more demanding school. At least in the old days they pretty much stuck to Magoo's and a couple gay spots on 6th ave. Now they are protesting...you just gotta laugh.

  • I hope that one day you will talk with some and be able to get over your superficial prejudices.

  • And I hope someday you graduate and move down to eugene.

  • Wait, who the fuck are you? and what "good" do you do?

  • what the FUCK was that? lol

  • What a bunch of faggots.

     UPS is now Evergreen Lite I guess.

  • You're incredibly intolerant. So, good luck with all THAT.

  • In your description, you said no barricades were thrown, Acumensch. At 0:38 in the video, you can see displaced barricades. At 0:46 in the video, you can see one protester pick up a barricade and approach the police. It's highly unlikely this protester was just looking for a seat in the middle of a teargas cloud. He threw that barricade, just as police claimed.

  • Watch closer. At 0:49, he sets the barricade down again. Also, the displaced barricades were from people running into them during the retreat.

    The Tacoma Police admitted in a debriefing interview at UPS that they didn't know why it was said that barricades were thrown.

  • Liface > "the displaced barricades were from people running into them during the retreat."

    You can see the "displaced barricades" at 0:36, only seconds after the first tear gas canister and long before any person in the visible crowd got up to retreat. And I didn't see that person lay down the barricade. All I saw was him fumbling with the barricade as he approached the police line.

  • Okay, so if the barricades were thrown, why are they behind the protesters? There were no barricades thrown, even the police have admitted this. I know all about cognitive dissonance and stuff, but you're fighting a one-man battle here.

  • Maybe this is TOO complicated for you to understand, Stewart. The barricades were already lying down because people knocked them over to get past them and sit in the road. I was standing there the whole time and saw how it all played out - nobody threw them.

  • fuck you rednecks that support that, they weren't doing thing wrong

  • Give Peace A Chance

  • I wonder if I'll have to deal with worse shit in the FBI when I join...this should be fun. lol.

  • Those domestic terrorists deserved it... I am glad im joining the police force where I can help put these infidels in fema camps when the time comes.. NWO for life.

  • lol they shoulda thrown the ter gas canasters back at the riot police

  • Yes, because those gas masks are just for show.

    Good thinking, VW.

  • I can't believe people would support this.

    Have you forgotten the Constitutional right to peaceful assembly, free speech, redress of grievances?

    These people are trying to get their government to listen to their concerns, is this so evil?

    Do you REALLY insist on living in a police state?

    In the 1960s and 70s Americans hated the Soviets and Chinese

    for this sort of suppression of the people.

    And now this is the American way.

    How very, very sad.

    RIP, America.

  • Hahaha your a joke. God Bless America kick these hippie anarchist bastards asses

  • What a strange comment for someone calling themselves

    LifeLibertyLove.

    And so full of errors, too.

    Taking a stand for liberty is no joke.

    I don't see many hippies in this clip.

    If they were anarchists they would not be trying to get the government to follow the Constitution.

    You have no way of knowing anything about their parentage.

    If I were to make your type of assumptions

    I would assume you are very young.

  • Hah! There not trying to make there government follow the constitution there trying to destabilize the government. I know your kind and you have got yourselves fooled. You act like barbarians instead of human beings.

  • I also do thank you for you're compliment I am 38 years young.

  • lol i don't blame the police for shooting them with rubber bullets and tear-gassing them, their singing was horrible >:)

  • haha stupid hippies

  • Hippies are the reason the city's stench is known as the "Tacoma Aroma". It comes from a mixture of B.O., Patchouli oil, weed, unemployment, laziness and tear gas!

  • oh shit the bandana shit is hardcore i wanta do that one day.

  • If we're gonna tlak law here then I think it would be apprpriate to point out the legal maneuvering bush and Cheney will have to do once they leave office to avoid war crimes accusations. I'll take concerned and compassionate citizens sitting in a straight over greedy politicians starting wars based on lies any time.

  • "If we're gonna tlak law here then I think it would be apprpriate to point out the legal maneuvering bush and Cheney ... blah blah"

    So, with your taxonomy, because OJ murdered and got off, I should be able to kill you with no consequence?

  • HAHA I HATE HIPPIES!!!

  • You people who defend this police action, you a disgrace for a human being aswell as the cops. I dont care if you dont like protesters for what ever pathetic reason, but to support unprovoked violence is the reason your country is spiraling into tyranny. You wont be happy when they are breaking your door down for some unlawful reason.

  • they got off easy, and they were breaking the law. and our country will be fine.....which one are you from again?

  • Yeah I mean, the right to peaceably assemble is so illegal, that is why it is in the bill of rights.

  • Didnt look peaceful to me....looks like they intended to get gassed.....to the hippies, it isnt about protest, its about airtime on the news and youtube....I loved the clueless students giving advice on what the police can and cant do...Plus the right to Peacably assemble cannot interfere with others rights of passage and private property.

  • They were sitting down singing. It can't get any more peaceful. They were sitting in a road that wasn't even busy and the police were more in the way than the students were. I do agree that students are stupid, though.

  • They were given lawful orders to disperse. They failed to comply. The fact that the road isnt busy doesnt matter. the right to peacably assemble does not include blocking roads or causing disturbances like a child throwing a tantrum in the toy isle. They were warned repeatedly, and the fact that the "medics" were present indicated they wanted a confrontation.

  • ShadowCrashed, the protesters were blocking a shipment of US Military Stryker Combat Vehicles. They were quite literally impeding on military affairs directly, which literally is like them going down to Iraq and forming a blockade around US troop emplacements. And don't try to bullshit the "OH BUT THEY'RE NON VIOLENT" crap on me, I didn't say they had to be violent in Iraq.

  • OH BUT THEY'RE NON VIOLENT

  • Congrats, you've just lost because you can't construct a proper response.

  • I didn't realize there was a competition. I know it's easy to look smart when there is google in your hands.

  • I don't need Google to "look smart", simply because I am smart.

    And it doesn't require intelligence to know that a shipment of Strykers was being sent through Tacoma.

  • You're still talking about this?

  • Apparently so. YouTube didn't notify me of your response until a little earlier.

  • kay

  • "it isnt about protest, its about airtime on the news and youtube"

    it's not all three?

    "I show them at work to teach the officers"

    This is a perfect example of how and why police are never there to protect protests, and go out of their way to tell protesters on YouTube that they use "hippie" videos to train more fascists to hurt them and laugh about it.

  • Correct...the police were there to disperse an illegal blockage of a public road. The protesters chose to have a confrontation instead of being productive students and or part of the workforce. If the cops were true fascists, the protesters would be dead and hanging from the light poles as a warning....instead of the pee pee slap they got.

  • but the cops are true fascists. You don't need an example better than this to show that. The fact that they use power to completely disable public discourse over policies that the people have no control over whatsoever, and paint the picture as a bunch of "stupid hippies" is absolutely undemocratic. It only accelerates fascist logic towards complete obedience when you assert they need to either be part of the "workforce" or else have - "confrontation", as if Labor has no business with politics.

  • You obviously have never left the security blanket called america to see true fascism and evil in other parts of the world. To sit in this forum and call hard working police officers fascist makes you part of the problem that this country can do without. The hippie kids were very gullible to be led in by a few anharchist saying they have a right to block a street. No rights implied by the constitution allow you to impede on other's rights by blocking the road...not one

  • Wow - because you're excusing fascism as "hard work" makes this even more fascist.

  • Something tells me your concept of hard work is standing in line with your hand out asking for your welfare check.......

  • No you're wrong about welfare.

    You didn't get what I was saying? You can't excuse fascism as "hard work". The Italian fascists themselves excused their evil plans as "hard work" so that they could sidestep the real question. The question isn't whether they "worked hard" or not! Thieves and thugs can "work hard" too. If that doesn't make sense to you, then you're the poster child of blind obedience.

  • Its not thatI dont "get" what your saying....I dont care about what your saying....Now your focused on the Italians? You still cant tell the difference between other countries and this one.

  • But Fascism isn't bad. Order brings Peace. Order brings Advancement of our species. Order is the only reason why humankind isn't extinct; we would die without Order.

    What kw918 said is correct; if America was Fascist, the police would be firing real bullets rather than rubber ones. Had the dumbasses here actually applied for a license to protest, this wouldn't happen. People are allowed to protest as long as they are not obstructing the lives of others.

    I am a Fascist. I am proud.

  • Police always get the blame for enforcing the very same laws politicians created (and sometimes the general public itself). Police should never be in the position to choose if a person is guilty of a crime or "overlook" crimes. People do have control of what policies are created. Whether they are hippies, pro-war marchers you may have the right to assemble but not to break the traffic laws.

  • But its also my road, and I wish to use it to. by blocking the road, and disobeying the lawful police order to disperse, you got the gas...in china they would have just shot you with lead.

  • This is by far my favorite one....the screams of medic!!medic!! the young kids trying to take on the man....and loosing. I will be using these clips to teach other cops on better tactics against unlawful protests, so keep posting the films ...

  • You SUCK! Protect and serve NOT POLOCE. Catch a clue buddy!

  • So, in the strange little world YOU live in, just what does "NOT POLOCE" mean? look on the side of your pipe, it says not to drink the bong water.

  • We really need to hire about 40-60 people to do a mock protest for each academy group. Classroom time followed by a realistic simulation is always the highest quality training, I find. But the problem is, some people think they have "rights" that do not exist. There is no Constitutional right to sit down on a roadway that is designated by the Law for automobile traffic. Actions that inherently violate the Law are not "peaceable". If the Law is wrong, we have this thing called Court. Right?

  • "There is no Constitutional right to sit down on a roadway that is designated by the Law for automobile traffic."

    That's not it at all... It's for public use. They have a right to block traffic IF the public allows it and the city gives them a permit saying so. I bet all those stinky hippies have a copy of the permit on them because they look so organized!

  • you are such a fool...

  • the solution of this situation is attack the police whit cocktail molotov, stones and baton .... no justice no peace!all cops are bastadards! EUROPA ANTIFASCISTA

  • The American Indian Movement tried the armed conflict method of political expression several times. It didn't work out too well. Any more ideas?

  • they can't oppress very well if they're burning, now can they?

    Moltovs vs. tear gas...I'm thinking fire's gonna win.

  • The use of tear gas is easily upgraded to the use of pistols, rifles and shotguns. Are you prepared similarly? Do you have advanced paramilitary training, protective equipment, state of the art communications, well practiced teamwork, wide availability of backup personnel, and the virtually unlimited funding enough to best all of theirs? Simply put: "Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya??" LOL

  • Fuck ANTIFA, they're a bunch of terrorist thugs who need to be lined up and shot. They're no better than those crazy Muslims that lop the heads off of random reporters. Seriously, ANTIFA has murdered, bombed, and threatened innocent Fascists, even if the said Fascists haven't actively taken part in politics. ANTIFA must die. When the Enlightenment guns you down, Diostramerda, send my regards to Stalin, Lenin, Marx, and Mao. Bastard.

  • haha they got owned so bad, that dude was like vomiting and then the dude that was whining about getting shot with rubber bullets looked like a total puss. u dont creep toward cops, they get nervous very, very easily. it is perfectly legitimate for u to get a bruise from a rubber projectile or get some oc all in ur throat if that rules out the possibility of groups taking their little "peaceful tea parties in the streets" to throwing rocks, barricades, bottles, etc. at the police

  • Fuck War

  • You can't block roadways or shipments even if you are protesting. Sorry, but that's life, and a reasonable law... and that's what happens if you try it two feet in front of a group of police officers.

    Whoever was organizing/leading the protesters to block the road failed everyone there that otherwise was protesting legitimately. And the protesters that advanced on the cops, including one you can clearly see picking up a barricade, ensured an epic fail.

  • If you want to demonstrat, do it peacefully and don't block shipments of vehicles I need in iraq.

    I hope everyone of you hippies got hit with OC, CS, and Mace. You definetly earned it. (Don't worry, I've been hit with crowd control agents. Yes, they hurt. They're supposed to!!)

  • what a load of weak minded individuals chanting in the night instead of doing somthing constructive.

  • pwnt ;D

  • i'm from belgium, europe and i thought usa is the country with freedom of speech. fuck police violence and fuck the war

  • Fuck the police!

  • first of all f*** that bullsh** amendment. if you dont like it leave the countr. we dont need you or your stupid opinion. the fact that your interfering with a government organized operation overrides you pathetic excuse of a amendment. oh and thanks for paying my check. have a nice but pathetic life.

  • That was great.

  • i live in tacoma :] i remeber this theese people got pwned and wtf is up with the guy at the end?

  • hahahahhah, funny video, stupid hippies

  • i dont blame the police because it there job to put the city back in order and plus just think of this way you have about 200 police men with you and the city is filled with what about 20,000 people or more plus some might care guns and cocktail bombs... hell if i was a riot police i would of piss my pants

  • The protesters most likely don't even know what they are protesting.

  • I like how the one guy is yelling "YOU JUST SHOT ME WITH A RUBBER BULLET!" They shot you like you said. I have a funny feeling they know exactly what it was.

  • The cops should have used live ammo.

  • to everyone saying "I HATE COPS", spend some time trying to help an ungrateful populace that tries to thwart you at every turn, and THEN come back feeling like "giving peace a chance". seriously, at the end of a day filled with pissy civilians who hate your guts but STILL seem to want you to cater to their every whim, no one wants to have to deal with scores of protesters singing at them. they just wanted the job to be over with. the reaction was a little extreme, but hardly unprovoked.

  • Yeah, tear gas and rubber bullets are such an appropriate response to singing.

  • i did say it was extreme did i not? and it's not just singing it's essentially breaking the law. look, both sides are wrong in this case, and neither should be held above the other. the protesters knew that their actions would have ramifications and remained obstinate despite that, and for what it's worth you should be glad that no blood was shed. maybe it was an inappropriate response to the provocation, but the fact of the matter is that a response was inevitable and the protesters knew it

  • Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

    Ever read that? It's one of the very first laws in this country. It's the first amendment. What the police officers did violated the first F***ing amendment amendment.

  • but the law IS on the officers' side. look, i'm simply saying that in this situation neither the protesters nor the police should be considered right or wrong and that before people condemn then they should stop and think "why did they DO what they DID?" that quote doesn't even support your statement. congress passed the laws that gave policemen power, and so CONGRESS "violated the first F***ing amendment". the policemen did not violate any laws in their actions.

  • "The right of the people to PEACEABLY assemble..."

    Blocking the street is not considered peaceably assembling :)

  • It does say that but it does not say "where" you can assemble.

  • You're totally right. It also doesn't say "where" you're protected from unreasonable search and seizure, nor "where" due process applies. Where doest the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment apply again? Hell, why not just give a little 10 by 10 square where these rights DO apply, preferably out somewhere really out of the way. If they don't exist everywhere, then they don't exist anywhere, since the places where they do apply will keep moving to where they won't be needed. QED.