You're right, I mixed the two. In any case I think my point still stands; in most European countries both would be addressed with police batons and in case of violence rubber bullets and tear gas. From his tweet I don't think he was thinking about rubber bullets.
Sending police to shoot at protester is "glorifying violence". As a reference, that's the approach that Assad took in Syria back in 2011.
He mentioned shooting at looters, not protesters.
Maybe you didn't see that part because Twitter has hidden the tweet?
You're right, I mixed the two. In any case I think my point still stands; in most European countries both would be addressed with police batons and in case of violence rubber bullets and tear gas. From his tweet I don't think he was thinking about rubber bullets.
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Shooting at looters instead of arresting them and taking them before a judge?
That's reminiscent of the very brutal police practices that sparked this chaos in the first place.
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he said he was sending the army to start shooting, not sending the police to stop violence.
No, see you've immediately moved the goals posts. He didn't say "I'm sending the police to stop violence".
Sigh. Really.
The tweets didn’t offer “sending in the police” it threatened to send the military in. Which isn’t the police.
Word matter. The fact I’m m reading this comment here is sad.