Post by pieter on Oct 31, 2019 15:10:54 GMT -7
Thousands of construction workers from all over the Netherlands at a national strike with a mass of tens of thousands of workers on one square creates a huge risk for the The Hague police, because public safety, government buildings, roads and highways and key public functions like hospitals, police stations and the government buildings are concentrated in a few square miles (kilometers). Because these construction workers are in the Hague with heavy construction machines, tracktors, bulldozers, vans and trucks and because these people are not regular Union folks.
Why the Dutch police is concerned about these construction workers shows this British construction worker who went on a rampage in a new built hotel in the UK.
Amongst construction workers you have notorious Hooligans of various Hooligan firms.
Farmers, workers, student protesters and other don't realise that these riot police officers have years of experience with heavy riot control. With violent hooligans and squaters. They use the same methods with Hooligan arrests and workers strike arrests. The police moves in with a van. Police officers jump out of the van and jump on a rioter and arrest him. I saw such arrests at a large student demonstration in 1994. The authorities are always stronger at the end. They have the riot police ME, the military police and military assistance if needed.
But large demonstrations of several professions are in fashion today. So more large scale protest will follow. Also new farm protests in december.
