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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 8554040" data-attributes="member: 6716779">3 cops treated in hospital and feces thrown at them. [MEDIA=youtube]LyeGXg8faNk[/MEDIA]  Cops are kinda stuck between a Rock and a hard place. There options are really do nothing or go in with water cannons, tear gas and batons which of course will end up on social media with people screaming police brutality and women and children and PoC are present.  There's to many to break up peacefully and a lack of polical cover.  Additionally the cops are independent of parliament and the occupation into it's third week is at parliament. They're more or less sitting on their hands so the police more or less have to decide to wade in or not independently and then they'll get the blame when people inevitably get hurt.  It's also not clear what the laws are as they haven't done anything similar since the Bill of Rights act was introduced and increasing amounts of health and safety laws.  So the cops don't want to do anything and can't really blame them. It's all on them if anything goes wrong (which it will let's face it). People basically sick of them and some feces was also dumped in the harbor contaminating local beaches getting them closed. Protesters are being anti social ass hats but not using enough violence where the cops can wade in and no one cares.</blockquote>