Bears Armed wrote:Verdant Haven wrote:OOC: When fully lethal methods are used for those scenarios, it tends to go down in history as brutality, and leads to major civil unrest - for example, the Boston Tea Party, or the Kent State Massacre.
OOC
Law enforcement, of any kind, did not take place during the 'Boston Tea Party'. You're probably confusing it with the so-called 'Boston Massacre' -snip-
Damnit it, yes. I know the difference well, but had to re-post the reply I was making about half a dozen times because the login server was screwing up. I'd actually corrected that multiple times, but was copy-pasting my draft text by this point, and naturally the one that finally worked had that brain fart in it still unedited. C'est la vie. I'll edit the text above for posterity.
Would you consider the 'Sand Creek Massacre' to belong on this list or examples, too?
I am less familiar with the Sand Creek Massacre, but I believe I would categorize that more as a war crime. It occured during a period of armed conflict between the groups, and the perpetrators set out with deliberate intent to slaughter Innocents. The previous examples were cases of civilian crowd control gone bad, with government forces acting against their own citizens in non-military contexts.