These guards start beating a subdued fan with clubs in plain view of the stadium full of fans. The fans would have none of it and descended onto the field and ran off the abusive guards. The athletes themselves had to save the guards from the fans.
Way to go fans! I wish all abuses of power were as unsuccessful.
Interesting:
The Portuguese cops were obviously very bad at subduing the invading fan. Not like efficient US cops.
I really think the fans' response was too much.
Honestly, soccer mobs are sometimes terrible (remember Heisel!).
But, yes, sometimes I see on TV, in American sports, fans being forcefully dragged out of the premises for very minor things while the others watch and even applaud. A sad view, IMHO.
American sports crowds behave just like the Chinese do. Good boys and girls. Not like those nasty Europeans and South Americans.
Crowd control, biiiiiiggg subject. Not saying I'm a fan of obedient bots, even less of power abuse. This makes me want to look up the situation in, I think, Sicily, in the last year or two where they shut down the stadium.
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Robert Gentel
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Thu 4 Sep, 2008 08:03 pm
@Intrepid,
If you don't like them you can vote them down or ignore me.
Interesting:
The Portuguese cops were obviously very bad at subduing the invading fan. Not like efficient US cops.
I really think the fans' response was too much.
Honestly, soccer mobs are sometimes terrible (remember Heisel!).
But, yes, sometimes I see on TV, in American sports, fans being forcefully dragged out of the premises for very minor things while the others watch and even applaud. A sad view, IMHO.
American sports crowds behave just like the Chinese do. Good boys and girls. Not like those nasty Europeans and South Americans.
Right!
Yes, I have been to soccer games in Europe where it got ugly very fast,
despite an abundance of police presence.
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Robert Gentel
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Thu 4 Sep, 2008 08:45 pm
@Intrepid,
Intrepid wrote:
I just wondered why your post are going through the roof.
Mainly because I like using the site more than I did on the last version, and because I'm working on this one most of the day now. What used to be testing and work on the dev sites has become live site use.
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Fri 5 Sep, 2008 06:01 am
@kuvasz,
kuvasz wrote:
coming from you, cjhsa who is the site's biggest fucktard and one who both sucks as well as swallows, your remarks are typical.
Have fun voting for your loser boy Obama there big guy. Your personal attacks are just par for the course. I addressed the video in question - and the idiot being subdued should have been tasered or worse. He is probably trying to bite or spit on the officers, who were armed only with batons. Their training says to use the baton on anyone biting or spitting - break their ribs - that is what they were trying to do. It's by the book. Craven is way off base.
Sad commentary on our site creator, but not unexpectedly so.
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