Do police just throw up their hands when there are armed criminals going around free, killing people? Should police not respond to mass shooters because the mass shooters have a gun?
Hell if you're going to argue the police is too weak to apprehend a bunch of armed Nazis, I'd assume the military has a responsibility of preventing domestic terrorism.
In short, what part of "you don't have to let armed Nazis assemble in public" are YOU not understanding?
To put it even more simply, if you don't fucking let Nazis assemble, you won't have to have protection for Nazis assembling.
Another difference-- a police escorted convict is handcuffed and rendered incapable of full free movement. An armed Nazi isn't.
What the fuck are you even talking about.
This wasn't illegal, this is a fucked up situation where fascists have the unfortunate right to form protests (and I'm not even sure if this counts as a protest considering like 7 people showed up).
You can't just arrest protesters who have a legal right to form and assemble. The police's job aren't to install
our social justice, it's their job to deal with half a dozen nazis legally walking down a sidewalk, legally armed, attempting instigate instigate people into causing violence against them so they can "stand your ground" (Michigan is a Stand Your Ground state).
The police know that that's why they are walking around during a gay pride parade, they aren't stupid. They know these people are walking around with guns to try and goad someone or a group of people into giving them a possible legal reason to "defend" themselves.
You're mad, I get that, but you're completely ignoring the actual laws that exist and that police are there to prevent a violence from breaking out.
"The City of Boston cannot deny a permit based on an organization's values," he said.
Walsh, a Democrat elected in 2013, said the organizers of the 'Straight Pride Parade" don't have a permit yet, but are "working to amend their application" for permits to host a public event. He did not say what those amendments entail.
This is how protests work. It's very shaky ground to outright deny permits based on the values of an organization. If you can't deny the legal right for assembly of a bunch of armed nazis during a large gay pride parade, the next best thing is to have an armed police force isolate them and make sure nothing happens that would cause violence to break out.
Obviously the best situation is to just deny their legal right to assemble. If I had my way it would be law to ban nazi and white nationalist assembly. I don't make laws and we don't live in a world where the 1st Amendment is so easily circumvented in a legal manner.
In this situation the best possible solution to the problem at hand is what happened. Police isolating the Nazi assembly and not allowing anyone to get close to them in order to prevent a possible life ending situation from happening.