Did The Police Not Know That There Are Non-Lethal Ways Of Barricading?
The police ended up using tear gas and lathicharge in a manner they are used to dealing with the usual protesters on foot. Having little effect on men on tractors, this only worsened the situation.
Protesters climbed atop police buses. South Korean police officers climb upto the roofs of buses to bring down protestors physically, and do not shoot them.
However, had the farmers not been allowed to enter the city, this situation would not have arisen. An argument, that had the police tried to stop them from entering, they ‘would have been obliged to use lethal force’, does not hold water.
First, there are non-lethal ways of preventing people from entering a certain area. They range from plastic bullets, Capsacinoid-based pepper grenades, Pelargonic Acid Vanillyl Amide (PAVA) shells; and bean bag rounds.Finally, firing in the air could have been resorted to.
Second, a whole science of physical barriers has been…