OCCUPY gets out of hand

[elpolloloco]

the protesters were also lobbing things at the cops (with intent to injure?)

Some were, yes. This group wasn't even looking at the cops and the cop that threw it had a front row view of this. He could see that NONE of these guys presented any immediate harm. Throw a flash bang at the guy throwing a rock. Throw some smoke next to the group that was trying to help. But when you see that your "OOPSIE" did serious injury to someone that caused the fuckin' guy to lay there BLEEDING FROM THE SKULL 3 feet away from you and you do it again, with EVEN MORE direct intent, that's just fuckin' retarded.

I know neither one of us are going to sway the other, but if this guy was so stupid that he didn't know that lobbing a flash bang in someone's face would do serious injury and couldn't figure it out after the guy RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM got hit in the face and laid on the crowd bleeding from the head, he needs to have his balls stapled to the wall.

And this opinion is coming from a conservative guy here who thinks the "Occupiers" are a bunch of smelly hippies. And think about this. The guy that was on the ground was obviously injured. And he threw a flash band just 1 foot from a man that was already bleeding from the skull.

Let me repeat that: The COP.... threw a flashbang, 1 foot away... from a guy... that was BLEEDING.... from the skull, man that was a few FEET from the cop that he could see.

And let me ask you this: Since now you seem to be arguing more about how big of a mistake it was, it looks like you are indeed admitting it was a mistake. So you're essentially admitting that what the cop did was wrong then, right? We're just arguing about HOW wrong?