Do I support violence? No. Do I support Police using excessive force on a skinny twenty-something year old kid overcome by passion at a Football match? Fuck no! There were 4+ security guards on one skinny kid, did they need to begin stabbing him with a baton over and over? No. This was unacceptable.
The gentleman who ran on to the field did in fact violate the rules of the private institution and for that he is guilty. Moving this over into the realm of a market anarchy the violator would be tackled and removed from the stadium. Would he be beaten like that when he is clearly not resisting? Probably not, the risk to violate an individual would be too great. In the event they did the violating security force would no doubt lose business and be subject to some sort of arbitration. If the kid was stabbing players or trying to harm someone then I can see the need for immediate force. The video shows though, he was not.
What is very acceptable is the power of people to band together and rise up against injustice and abusive force. Should they have attacked the police? The answer is no, violence is never the answer, but when you abuse your authoritarian power on someone who has not committed a violent crime this is the result. It would have ended much better if the mob of people simply rescued the victim and broke up the altercation. Victimizing the security team makes them just as guilty in regard to rights violation as the violent security team. Alas, nothing in life is perfect.
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