According to the Media (CNN/Fox/MSNBC), there were 200 people at the Chicago Protest

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  1. ComradeLer Proud Anti-Patriot

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    200-1000 people, eh? So, tell me again about how the media isn't completely censored?
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  2. CoExIsTeNcE LeonTrotsky in Disguse

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    Links to the articles please.
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    Those were the estimates they made on live news, at the time of the protest. Even if they did change the figures later, which I'm not sure if they did, saying that there are 200 people there is blatant bullshittery. Also, Google is your friend.
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    It's not censoring, it's just bad reporting. It could potentially be censoring, but you would have to prove that the higher ups at the news knew what was going on at the time, and instructed their reporters to report different figures.

    Also the 2 pictures look like they're from completely different locations...
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    They are. It was a march, and it happened over 3 days.
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    I bet other news agencies told you the cops beat 5000 of those 200 protestors all the way into the emergency room too.
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    It was obviously small at first, probably when it started
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    No, they started out in mass.
    But when the meeting was over and all of the public permits expired, the police disbanded the last few hundred protesters.
    Peaceably, mind you.
    The worst injury was a cop with a fat cut on his arm.
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    sounds about right.
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    All I hear is a bunch of whining from an ideological crusader who is generally just buthurt about "society" and the lack of a communist/socialist/marxist/anarchist/whatever revolution...
    Please stop it, or I'm going to turn into Kali one day.(with the hating)
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    Dude, I watched the whole thing live. I saw the police attacking protestors, and I know there was brutality because the camera teams specifically went after people with the worst injuries. One guy was literally ran into by a police van, and was put into critical, another guy, who I physically saw on the livestream moments after, was bashed in the back of the head, multiple times with a police baton - he was taken away in an ambulance. Hell, it seemed like 5-10 minutes there was another police attack, and there are countless images online of bloodied people. Please don't make claims that you have not bothered to research.

    There was nothing peaceful about it, on the behalf of the police at least.
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    Interesting, though I can't just take your word for it, I need prove of this.
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    Lol.
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    ^Well If Ler is right about the police brutality then something needs to be done about it.
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    Lets cry police brutality guys, damn capitalistic pigs!
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    I disagree.
    I think with most of these protests, the police do an excellent job under difficult circumstances. You have to remember they are simply normal people, and have to hold firm against crowds of angry protestors, trying to keep everything under control.
    They are often subject to abuse and violence, so the occasional injury done to a protestor is no big deal, under the circumstances.
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    He isn't right.
    He lives in Austrailia.
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    @ComradeLer
    Don't lecture me on what's happening in Chicago.
    I know that none of that is true, or is completely taken out of context.
    The only time any officer in Chicago ever committed physical violence against one of the protesters is when they were physically attacked by the protesters.

    The entire time, the police force utilized extraction to keep the peace.
    When the crowds started to get too crazy, they would extract the ring leaders who were starting the trouble.

    The only other times the police acted out against the protesters was when an individual or individuals were suspected of being Black Block.
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    Would you rather take out the cancer cells out of the protesters main body or let it grow out of control. Then get swarmed by hundreds of angry college students?
    Also if you remember the pepper spraying police officer in some Californian campus, who sprayed point-blank at the protesters. These protesters were WARNED multiple times to leave peacefully or the police would use necessary methods to disband the protest.
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    You know, Ler, a true Marxist wouldn't be whining about police brutality because he wouldn't be surprised by it.

    COMRADELER IS A REVISIONIST
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    While they might have been warned, the pepper-spraying was in no way justified. If they were their legally(not really sure how this works in the US) and they didn't pose any threat to anyone, they police had no justification of removing them by force anyway, and if they were their illegally or/and posed a threat to someone, a removal by force doesn't include pepper-spraying unless the protesters get violent.

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