Police : Tear gas necessary to disperse crowd
Metropolitan Police Bureau insisted the use of tear gas against People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) protesters to disperse them in front of the Parliament to clear the way for MPs to join policy debate on Tuesday morning was justified.
Pol Maj Gen Amnuay Nimmano, commander of Metropolitan Police Division 1, held a press conference, saying that police had no choice but to use tear gas to disperse the crowd because police had to open access to the Parliament for MPs and senators to attend the government’s declaration of policy statement.
He maintained that the use of tear gas to disperse the protest conforms to international crowd control standards.
He also said that the fact that more than 70 people were injured in the morning riot was because protesters ran into each other to flee the tear gas.
When asked about the cause of a male protester, who has lost his leg during the riot, Pol Maj Gen Amnuay said the man could have stepped on barbed wire around the Parliament. TV news video showed the man was hit by a police tear gas grenade just as it exploded.
Bangkok Post
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