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Pepper spray on neo-Nazis is self-defense. Their mere existence is a threat.
Why, are you afraid the neo-nazis will respond with sarin gas or something?
The reason chemical weapons are prohibited in war is because chemical warfare using mustard gas, sarin gas, etc. is horribly painful to people, and affects anyone in the area, including medical personnel, civilians, and prisoners of war. Using pepper spray and tear gas in riot control doesn't have that problem.
How do you prefer them dispersing rioters if not non-lethal weapon?
Ahh yes, riot shield, standing there, menacingly, until rioters decided to disperse by themselves.
Ahh yes, cordoning off the area and the rioters will never find way through it.
Ahh yes, arrest, where the rioters will willingly cooperate.
it's very much depend on who did the protest and what the protest is about.
It's nazi, it's cool and good, It's fucking nazi dude, not a hill worth dying on. It's good that cop punch bad people and nazi are bad people deserved to be punched. It's a circle block in a circle hole, the reaction is just fitting. No one defending their right exactly because they are nazi.
You can't both protest on the right to not get pepper sprayed and then also protest against the right to protest. You could've point out the protestor is the first one getting pepper sprayed and then the nazi, then we have a case, but nope you have to defend the nazi but missed the one worth defending.