<lcs>Riot police are Imperial Stormtroopers. Realization of this is key to enlightenment.</lcs>
The term "non-lethal" is detestably
misleading. Since any weapon by definition is capable of causing serious harm to a person, intentionally or not, their use in subduing another should be accompanied by the awareness of this fact, and ignorance of this is either willful or negligent and results in
people dying for no good reason.
So, either these police are fine with the fact that they might lethally injure unarmed men, women and children in the name of following orders, or they lack the proper discipline and restraint to be entrusted with such weapons. So who's job is it to make sure the police are taking all necessary precautions and ascribing punishment to those who impunely brutalize the people they swore to protect?
There must be
some way for the people to stand up for what is right before the powerful and the wrong. The free nation is ours, and so too the burden of leveling inequity. If justice remains unserved, the duty is ours to serve it. Do the research and find your representatives. Carry dissent to the polls and sweep out chunks of existing governance.
The world is paying attention, speak!