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Sending police to shoot at protester is "glorifying violence". As a reference, that's the approach that Assad took in Syria back in 2011.

>>mrighe+(OP)
He mentioned shooting at looters, not protesters.

Maybe you didn't see that part because Twitter has hidden the tweet?

>>pnako+A4
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.

>>totalZ+97
In which country do you live?

Shooting rubber bullets at rioters and looters is standard practice pretty much everywhere in democracies, and in non-democracies they tend to go straight to lethal ammo.

>>pnako+A4
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.

>>mrighe+Pa
No it wouldn't. Most cases of looting in Europe are just forgotten about because it's done by minorities in countries like France or UK and it's a controversial topic to talk about so police and governments would rather just pretend it doesn't happen.

>>mrighe+Pa
Mobs in Europe are usually not armed with guns, mobs in USA are.