Protest Crackdown Comparisons

There is a strange man who shouts “no Brexit” very loudly outside parliament every day. None of the residents like him. He hasn’t been run over by a tank yet.For forty years mothers of disappeared people have assembled in the Plaza de Mayo.¹ They have not been run over by a tank yet.In Belgrade protests have been held for twenty-six weeks against government corruption.² The police have attempted to repress the protests, but not with tanks.A UK student protest in 2011 continued for sever

There's a rather excessive force being used on a population whom, unlike other large scale protests, didn't overturn any car, didn't burn anything, didn't cause any damage whatsoever.The outrage is remarkably reasonable in this case, and unfortunately it's looking and feeling eerily familiar, to the ​Tiananmen Square June 4, 1989.More international media coverage would absolutely and definitely help.

it's a nice idea but instead we're about to go full tiananmen

"heavy-handed riot police action" This is much more likely to happen in the US than in China

Hm not even a camera recording of a gun? Something?The protestors did poop on the walls.That's insurrection of lunch thinking about it.

From the general tone of the rest of the comment, it's likely they're referring to actions taken adjacent to the Black Lives Matter protests which were depicted in some news media as being like a war zone. Oddly, none of the cities today look like, I don't know, Ukraine. But some people will make mountains from molehills.

Are you talking about this case? https://twitter.com/morphonios/status/1268370620418527232. There was tear gas too even.

You mean like they did at Kent State?

Wait, aren't the people fighting in the streets?

It's not a media-generated event. People are upset about having their friends shot and automatic rifles pointed at their faces as they protest.