@Cerrone
Have you lost all sense of rationality??? What those students did was inexcusable. Protests are a form of freedom of speech; rioting and destroying other people's property (as well as attacking others) is not. It matters not whether a car or a fire extinguisher was thrown; all that matters is that something was thrown, and it endangered many lives.
Perhaps you didn't do any actual research before writing your post, but had you done so, you may have realised that the police sent to the event were unprepared for the riot, and as such, had to hold off the protestors on their own before riot police could turn up, and even then it wasn't enough. If they had tried to arrest people at the time, they would have (a) lost at least 2 officers who could have helped prevent more students from getting in, and (b) caused a wave of anger through the already angry crowd, possibly putting more lives at risk.
The police made the correct decision given the circumstances; try to prevent further damage now, and arrest later. They weren't being cowardly at all; they were being attacked by a swarm of students that outnumbered their own, and were fighting for their own lives, as well as those of the people who worked in the building.
As for the charge of attempted murder, I think it is fully justified. I hope the person responsible gets jail time, and never gets to set foot on a university campus again; he deserves it.
Have you lost all sense of rationality??? What those students did was inexcusable. Protests are a form of freedom of speech; rioting and destroying other people's property (as well as attacking others) is not. It matters not whether a car or a fire extinguisher was thrown; all that matters is that something was thrown, and it endangered many lives.
Perhaps you didn't do any actual research before writing your post, but had you done so, you may have realised that the police sent to the event were unprepared for the riot, and as such, had to hold off the protestors on their own before riot police could turn up, and even then it wasn't enough. If they had tried to arrest people at the time, they would have (a) lost at least 2 officers who could have helped prevent more students from getting in, and (b) caused a wave of anger through the already angry crowd, possibly putting more lives at risk.
The police made the correct decision given the circumstances; try to prevent further damage now, and arrest later. They weren't being cowardly at all; they were being attacked by a swarm of students that outnumbered their own, and were fighting for their own lives, as well as those of the people who worked in the building.
As for the charge of attempted murder, I think it is fully justified. I hope the person responsible gets jail time, and never gets to set foot on a university campus again; he deserves it.
