Another good article about the protest.

[Oldfellah]

Much has been made of the whole "throwing faeces" matter, as is understandable if it is true.  But is it actually true?  I've seen absolutely no evidence presented; it has instead just been oft quoted by those eager to paint the protestors as ferals.  I've heard that the true story is that someone chucked a bag full of orange juice (not a nice thing to do, but not remotely on the same level as a bag of poo), which was initially incorrectly assumed to be urine.  Passed down the line, from person to person, "bag of urine" (which wasn't actually urine), became "bag of poo".  My evidence that it didn't happen is no more robust than any evidence I've seen that it did, but surely the burden of proof lies with those claiming it happened.

Another "the protesters are ferals" favourite was the "unknown acid sprayed at the cops".  That one got quite a bit of air-time for a few days until it was determined that it was actually just the cops own pepper spray blowing back in their own faces.

All in all, just because you read it/saw it in the news, it doesn't mean it is necessarily remotely true.

shit is brown orange juice is yellow, perhaps these ferals are colour blind as well