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Possible charges for parents of vandals may be coming, police silent on use of rubber bullets/tear gas


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Police are contemplating pursuing legal action against the parents of young protesters that allegedly vandalised public property while attending the recent pro-democracy protests in Bangkok. The police kept silent on their use of rubber bullets and tear gas. Piya Tavichai, the Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner, announced at a press briefing today that multiple suspected vandals are teenagers that have been arrested for similar offences in the past. Thus, the police are now mulling whether to file criminal charges against the suspected vandals’ parents as the police see it as a failure on the parents part by not “restraining their children”. […]

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Well considering many of these young protesters come from very well to do families I say bring it on. Nothing will end this farce of a government and the sanctioned corruption of the RTP quicker than those that support them ( wealthy parents of some protestors) finally turning against them. 

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Just now, Dedinbed said:

Protestors need to duck then .. 

Talking of which, I did not see those yellow inflatable ducks that were popular with the protesters January time. Maybe the have migrated.

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1 minute ago, gummy said:

Talking of which, I did not see those yellow inflatable ducks that were popular with the protesters January time. Maybe the have migrated.

Probably .. especially if old Bill were ruffling their feather's .. 

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3 minutes ago, thai3 said:

Typical tactics of a dictatorship- go after the families

So the cross tactic of that is go after the families of the dictators and supporters

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32 minutes ago, gummy said:

So the cross tactic of that is go after the families of the dictators and supporters

That would threaten 'national security' 

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Punish the whole family?! Welcome to North Korea. What's next, Army with live ammunition on the streets and "stray" bullets hitting journalists. Good luck with that. Twitter is full of Police vids already and they are not showing actions according to international standards...

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