In scrupulous fairness, it does look like he may have made some small attempt to avoid the kid (just before the moment of impact, he goes slightly right) and to avoid actually treading on him.
But that doesn’t change the fact that this is RenFaire nonsense, and no one’s safety would have been compromised if he’d just stopped. What if it had been a toddler? Or someone having a heart attack?
The uniforms are sure, as are all dress uniforms, but they are armed with a modern weapon*. These aren’t ‘pretend’ soldiers, while they’re doing guard duty, the other half of the regiment is on active deployment.
Oh, and our current government would like to make them immune from prosecution for any and all crimes.
*(they may or may not have live ammunition depending on the threat level, but that bayonet on the end is real enough)
It was less the training of the soldiers or the deadliness of their weapons I was questioning, and more the effectiveness of marching backwards and forwards while yelling at tourists as a means of protecting anything from anyone.
So are regular cops. The total death toll of the Troubles, all sides, comes in somewhere around 4,000 depending on which acts you include and time frame. That’s about three years of US police killings. Now those obviously aren’t comparable statistics, but it is a reminder that cops are a trained murder force of our society.
Apparently the warning that they were coming didn’t stick
Hardly public.
That protester stopped those tanks several blocks away from Tiananmen Square, as they were going somewhere else
It is a famous event because they were rolling past a hotel full of foreign journalists
That would depend very much on which country we’re talking.
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