I actually dreamed about tear gas last night. I'm fucking pissed that everything they did to us on the 6th, including the flash-bangs and pepper spray along with the tear gas, was done arbitrarily at best. I'm sure other pedes in that massive crowd at the back of the Capitol can attest that NO MEMBER OF LAW ENFORCEMENT WAS GIVING ORDERS. I didn't hear a single fucking of them tell anyone to back up, or get off of that, etc. It was a if they'd been ordered not to say a word to us. But fire flash-bangs at people who are literally just standing the fuck around. I think escalation of force is generally fine when people refuse to comply (at least, I used to think that), but it's IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPLY WITH UNSTATED ORDERS. Which may have been the fucking point.
I actually dreamed about tear gas last night. I'm fucking pissed that everything they did to us on the 6th, including the flash-bangs and pepper spray along with the tear gas, was done arbitrarily at best. I'm sure other pedes in that massive crowd at the back of the Capitol can attest that NO MEMBER OF LAW ENFORCEMENT WAS GIVING ORDERS. I didn't hear a single fucking of them tell anyone to back up, or get off of that, etc. It was a if they'd been ordered not to say a word to us. But fire flash-bangs at people who are literally just standing the fuck around. I think escalation of force is generally fine when people refuse to comply (at least, I used to think that), but it's IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPLY WITH UNSTATED ORDERS. Which may have been the fucking point.