Video: "Rainbow" cannons on guard of order: protests are dispersed by pouring paint on people
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Perhaps there is no country in the world where public life would be absolutely calm and devoid of any upheavals. All kinds of protests and demonstrations have long become commonplace, and no one is surprised by the measures to combat them. However, as practice shows, sometimes the authorities decide to disperse the disgruntled people in a completely non-standard way - pouring paint from head to toe!
The answer to the natural question about the expediency of such actions is very simple: by pouring persistent purple or pink paint on the crowd, diluted in water, the police make it easier for themselves to further search for and identify the protesters. To do this, they spray paint from special "guns".
Don't think that paint splashing is a modern invention! The most famous peaceful use of colorful cannons occurred in 1989 in South Africa, when police dispersed anti-apartheid activists with purple water. It is noteworthy that during the struggle, the protesters managed to deploy the cannon, pointing it at the police themselves and at the walls of the headquarters of the ruling party. Both the party building and the White House were painted purple that time. On the next day, leaflets were already distributed with a new slogan against apartheid: "The violets are in power!"
Protests in Hungary, Indonesia, Argentina, Malaysia, India and Israel have been affected by color police measures over the past 15 years. In Uganda, pink dye was used last year to humiliate protesters. In Israel, Palestinian rioters were sprayed with dark blue paint, the color of the Israeli flag. Hungarian police prefer green, while Koreans prefer orange. But the Indian police are in solidarity with the Africans in their love for purple.
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