Bill, Saw Chicago's Police Chief on TV. He was at the whole NATO demonstration with a plan. He pulled cops out of the line before they blew-up from the taunting. He even stopped them from donning gas masks at one point. (Somebody shouted GAS and the officers started to don masks. He saw it and said NO, I DIDN'T ORDER THAT!) Communications was a key. Each officer had an earpiece radio. And they practiced what to do with the protesters. The new chief is from New York. He showed two momentos from his professional life, a rock thrown at him here with NATO and the license plate from his destroyed patrol car on 9/11.
Everybody is approaching this like the police are rabid dogs. Get a grip folks, I'm sure you know better than that. The NATO protesters got outsmarted by a peaceful Chief who smiled, protected property, and refused to get mad. Quite a contrast to 1968... Regards, Bob S. On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 1:00 AM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28/05/2012 1:06 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: >> >> Tom, >> The employment issue might be relevant. >> You could wear a hat, sunglasses, and a hospital mask as a disguise, >> but the goggles are teargas protection, maybe the bandanna as well. > > > Knowing how over the top both protesters and police can be these days, > wearing tear gas protection at a protest rally is probably as prudent as > wearing a tie-off when working on a roof. When I get into my truck, I put on > my seatbelt. This doesn't mean I am looking to smack into something, it's > just that I am aware that there are potential pitfalls to driving across > town. > Were I off to a protest rally, the same thing would apply. Some protester > might get carried away (at the G8 in Toronto, some of the protesters who got > carried away were, in fact, police plants who were embedded deliberately to > cause mischief and give the police an excuse to crack a few skulls), or a > cop might just get trigger happy and plop a gas grenade beside me just for > spite. > > -- > > William Robb > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
