Violent activists at COP15

posted December 28th, 2009, 2 comments, tagged ,

Clearly non-violent protestors sitting on the ground in a police lockdown

COP15 activists stuck in a preventive arrest. Local police preventively arrested hundreds of these violent activists.

Photo by Kris Krüg.

2 responses

  1. Harry Fear says:

    You say that the violent activists were stuck in a preventative arrest.

    This paradoxical and misleading.

    If the activists had acted violently, then there illegal action would have led to their arrest, not preventative arrest.

    You cannot be arrested preventatively!

    They may have been detained preventatively; but you cannot call them “violent activists” for they didn’t commit an action considered criminally violent.

  2. Mark Wubben says:

    Detained for up to six hours or arrested… point is my disagreement with the situation. Regarding violence, the post is tagged ‘irony’ for a reason.