It seems that breaking into and taking over someone else’s property isn’t enough for the mob of Chapel Hill squatters and anarchists. Some of them will reportedly march and protest today’s Chapel Hill town council meeting. Since several council members are squealing about how wrong they think it was for the police to have — shudders!! — weapons drawn when the activities of the mob of malcontents was escalating, I wonder if those same council members will tell the police to go away if they feel endangered by the squatters and anarchists today.
Town Council member Laurin Easthom says she does not understand why police responded withsemi-automatic rifles to a group of squatters that had moved into the vacant building the night before.
“They must have assumed that people in there were heavily armed,” Easthom said Wednesday. “If they use heavy artillery for protests, then I think we need to talk about a policy change. … That’s huge. That’s bad in my opinion.”
At the council meeting last Monday, council member Sally Greene also questioned the use of assault weapons, saying she didn’t know that the Chapel Hill police even had them.
