Glad to see The Atlantic is back on it with this great combination of history, theory, and raw footage. Great piece.
The article does ask for “a call for restraint,” which I would disagree with semantically. This should be a call for humanity, for the protection of rights, for common decency… Restraint implies that this violence is a natural, a-okay action for police, one that should to be repressed in this instance, as if out of good sportmanship.
Sorry, I don’t believe that a police force should be allowed to force pepper spray into the throats of peaceful protesters (one of whom was coughing up blood for the next forty five minutes). The police force shouldn’t be “restraining” themselves from beating the shit out of peaceful protesters. That should never even be an option in the first place.
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