It's become common practice at protests for police to perform mass arrests, hold people for the duration of the protest on false charges, and then drop everyone's charges and release them when the protest is over.
It's also standard practice for people like that to claim "I did nto doing anything these charges are false" when they where not
Its also standard practice to lie about it
Again i do believe this stuff happens but not to the level people say it dose
So when police arrest people by the dozens, hold them by the hundreds, and then just drop the charges and let them go as soon as the event is over... your assumption is that the people must have been guilty of something? That the city would rather pay the court settlement fees for mishandled cases, then actually carry out the charges, which would be cheaper and better for PR? That the donations received from the parties involved in the event being protested have no connection to these practices?
And you accuse people of believing what they want...
What proof do you have of this happening?
I'm not beliving what I want, I see no proof of this happining, yes you always hear about it, but its never backed up with any proof show me proof
As for by the dozen being arrested and doing something to cause it or not, its not uncommon a lot of BAD protesters out there that ruin it for others, so yes I could easily see them hold them in till its over so they dont cause anymore problems then dont pursue so they dont have to go through the legal system,there is nothing wrong wiht that IMO
It's just like how when they sometimes let someone go when they could technically put legal charges on them, its just not worth it, but keeping them there is going to egg more people on
Do I belive cops are doing what i just said? Yes, I also believe some do what you said
but no where near the level your acting like it is
you claim its cheaper and better for PR PROVE it, going through court cost a LOT, and can be dragged out, in fact your side often uses that excused reverse claiming the cops slow the trials down so that the people have no choice to pay for it, guess what? it works both ways they can take hospital people off the streets let them cool down then let them go, not having to pay thousandth of dollars, or they could take them in and do that AND even have more heat form people like you who instantly assume "dozen get arrested? there is no way they did anything wrong!!!!!!"
We don't know what they did or did not do.
Put it this way, cops do it all the time at huge parades and partys, remove the guys who got a little to excited so more dont.
Are all of them doing it legally? of course not, but its far form "common" IMO