tkip
Active Member
People don't understand or they don't want to understand.
It's a typical knee jerk reaction to claim that I thought someone had it coming when I'm talking about using common sense and understanding the choices you make and that includes participating , either as a bystander or as part of the protestors in a protest or being in the immediate vicinity of a summit that everyone knew was rife with possible danger. People were being warned to stay away from the downtown core all the weekend through the media.
It wasn't a secret. I heard TTC supervisors out on the streets telling people not to go downtown. So it wasn't just from the "police" as someone claimed which is pure bullshit.
Yeah, we deserve protection.
But one's choices with how they get into situations needs to be addressed and no one wants to do this. I'm not saying or have ever said that people had it coming. Only that they should have known that something might have happened. It's like a pedestrian screaming at a driver for nearly hitting them when they just suddenly step off the sidewalk onto the street and into the path of traffic. Which I see all the time now.
Sure, if the pedestrian had been injured, they need medical attention but you have to question them as to why they just thought it was okay to step off the sidewalk and expect traffic to suddenly stop for them. People don't think (common sense) and it's creating stupid scenerios with results that many times are avoidable.
So let me repeat. I don't think people should be deprived of help or assitance or protection but when it's obvious that they put themselves into dangerous and risky scenerios that had possible negative outcomes, don't complain about not understanding what happend and how you got caught up in it.
And I don't want someone to interpret this as me letting the police off the hook. Right now we're still dealing with allegations and until there's an investigation, I'm not just going to accept at face value the stories I'm hearing.
It's a typical knee jerk reaction to claim that I thought someone had it coming when I'm talking about using common sense and understanding the choices you make and that includes participating , either as a bystander or as part of the protestors in a protest or being in the immediate vicinity of a summit that everyone knew was rife with possible danger. People were being warned to stay away from the downtown core all the weekend through the media.
It wasn't a secret. I heard TTC supervisors out on the streets telling people not to go downtown. So it wasn't just from the "police" as someone claimed which is pure bullshit.
Yeah, we deserve protection.
But one's choices with how they get into situations needs to be addressed and no one wants to do this. I'm not saying or have ever said that people had it coming. Only that they should have known that something might have happened. It's like a pedestrian screaming at a driver for nearly hitting them when they just suddenly step off the sidewalk onto the street and into the path of traffic. Which I see all the time now.
Sure, if the pedestrian had been injured, they need medical attention but you have to question them as to why they just thought it was okay to step off the sidewalk and expect traffic to suddenly stop for them. People don't think (common sense) and it's creating stupid scenerios with results that many times are avoidable.
So let me repeat. I don't think people should be deprived of help or assitance or protection but when it's obvious that they put themselves into dangerous and risky scenerios that had possible negative outcomes, don't complain about not understanding what happend and how you got caught up in it.
And I don't want someone to interpret this as me letting the police off the hook. Right now we're still dealing with allegations and until there's an investigation, I'm not just going to accept at face value the stories I'm hearing.
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