[grooveless touque]

I don't think the police do accept responsibility for overreacting at all. That infamous CBC footage of the police pepper-spraying protestors at the APEC summit in Vancouver who were literally sitting on a sidewalk less than 10 seconds after telling people to move showed the country the kind of power trips these people get themselves on, and the police officers responsible for that incident denied any wrongdoing. And last year here in Halifax there was a protest about something near the World Trade Convention Centre downtown, and police jumped their own barricades to assault protestors. I think they take it too far and, although there are certainly cases where protestors have gotten carried away and sullied their cause, I think the actions of the police during mostly peaceful protests makes everybody less likely to respect the authority and more likely to fight back.