re: #367 boxhead

Why yahoos, and why is the response by NYPD not reviled? Really, netting people and then macing them?

To answer the second, macing after netting is not automatic. It’s used when those being arrested remain combative. The nets themselves are used to more easily control detainees, and avoid officer injuries from a more individual process. The sight of part of a crowd being netted also scares other parts of the crowd and helps disperse it. It’s a dominance tactic.

Yahoos is a thing I call protestors I don’t like.