Ontopic Marines pissed at Oakland Police

Yea, in other cities they are. I said when this thing began oakland is a terrible example because they riot like twice a year, was just a matter of time before it turned ugly and the cops are over zealous because they want to avoid another 1992.

So you are basing you opinion on the fact that Oakland is a rough city where the people act out every year? Why don't you actually look at the real facts of what happened there?
 
Why dont you? public property was being destroyed (the park, simply can't handle people pissing on trees for that long)

Cops gave 72 hours notice they gotta move or they will be moved, 72 hours later the protestors didn't want to move and started resisting, swarming small groups of cops, throwing shit, etc...

Cops respond with tear gas and flashbangs and everyone is somehow surprised?
 
police turned para-military in the last 20 years. they're after the people, not protecting them.

"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
 
In all fairness, the point about the Marine Corps is central to the story. This isn't an expose about the police beating protesters, it's a shock piece about how the police assaulted a United States Marine. How dare they bloody and abuse a sacred, heroic soldier of this great nation? Do the police hate eagles? Do they hate baby Jesus and freedom? Have we become communists? The dramatic undertones of the story sort of depend upon this guy being a Marine. Which he isn't. It's a technicality, and it doesn't excuse the police behavior, but it's a fair technicality due to the misleading nature of what everyone is saying. Including the other, angry Marines. Do they realize he was discharged for drug use? We don't really know. Would they still care about the story if they did know? We don't know that either.
It's unfortunate that his service is central to the story because it's not what matters. What matters is the treatment of people who were rendering first aid to someone that was injured. That's it; any other qualifiers about them being first responders or him being a marine or the cops having given warning doesn't mean shit. People were not "rushing barricades", they were kneeling down and attending to someone bleeding from the face. That does is not action deserving a flash bang just like standing behind orange netting and yelling is not deserving of pepper spray to the face.
 
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It's unfortunate that his service is central to the story because it's not what matters. What matters is the treatment of people who were rendering first aid to someone that was injured. That's it; any other qualifiers about them being first responders or him being a marine or the cops having given warning doesn't mean shit. People were not "rushing barricades", they were kneeling down and attending to someone bleeding from the face. That does is not action deserving a flash bang just like standing behind orange netting and yelling is not deserving of pepper spray to the face.

I agree with you.