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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Hah, the video must have been taken down last week. I figured it might eventually be.

Here’s another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq8zFLIftGk

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Upon watching the video then reading further, they seem to have left the square to clear nearby streets. Your comment says he wanted them to stay. Therefore you’re saying he wanted them not to continue clearing the area? Or are you saying he wanted them to continue to maintain the square?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

He seems to be blocking their exiting the square, so it appears he wanted them to remain in it. I don’t know where the tanks were going. Perhaps back to base, perhaps somewhere else.

Edit to add: Back to base seems most likely, because this was on June 5th, the day after the protests had ended.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I think he was just a weirdo

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

They cleared the side streets after this. How does blocking equal wanting them to stay? Seems like wanting them to stop.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

they seem to have left the square to clear nearby streets

That sounds so strange, how do we expect them to clear entire streets if they can't even get past a single guy armed with grocery bags?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How does not wanting to run a guy over equal an inability to?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Can you explain the relevance?