"Oakland police are being the most aggressive of any department I've seen in the Bay area since the war began," said protester Damien McAnany, a database manager. "The San Francisco Police Department never used any of this stuff against us."
"Some people were blocking port property and the port authorities asked us to move them off," said Deputy Police Chief Patrick Haw. "Police moved aggressively against crowds because some people threw rocks and big iron bolts at officers."
While I agree that these people have the right to protest this war, I disagree that they have the right to break the law doing it. They threw things at police and then they complain about aggressive behavior. Seems like force begets force to me. He who lives by throwing "rocks and bolts" will die by the "sting balls, which send out a spray of BB-sized rubber pellets and a cloud of tear gas," to sort of paraphrase the Bible
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