The situation when the police protected the Ku Klux Klan while gassing and arresting the demonstrators can seem to be unexpected and controversial because people are often inclined to associate the Ku Klux Klan with the ideas of the white nationalism and issues of racial prejudice and discrimination, with the Ku Klux Klan’s violent slogans, and with a lot of the Klan’s terrorist methods to influence the community.
From this point, the police acted irrelevantly while protecting the Ku Klux Klan instead of protecting the public. However, it is necessary to pay attention to the fact that such considerations can also be discussed as based on prejudice and biased in their nature because those people who are inclined to discuss the problem from this point reveal their prejudiced and discriminatory attitudes.
Thus, such considerations are associated with the ideas of the stereotypical visions, prejudice, and discrimination because the public is oriented to evaluating people because of their visions and ideas.
In this case, it is necessary to distinguish between the Ku Klux Klan’s character as an organization and between the nature of the actions performed by the Ku Klux Klan’s members and demonstrators with references to the concrete situation. The members of the Ku Klux Klan have the right to follow definite ideas and principles and meet to discuss them until their actions or meetings can cause violence or be associated with the terrorist acts.
It is a controversial idea, but the fact of forbidding the ideas promoted by the Ku Klux Klan’s members can be discussed as a kind of discrimination in some concrete situations.
From this perspective, the actions of the Ku Klux Klan’s members presented in the video cannot be discussed as violent in relation to the public or as violating the social norms. On the contrary, the demonstrators’ actions and behaviors cannot be discussed as peaceful because they gathered to oppose the Ku Klux Klan’s march and meeting.
In this situation, the police protected the Ku Klux Klan because it was necessary to cope with the demonstrators’ violent and discriminatory actions. However, the appropriateness of the police’s activities can also be discussed from the point of the extent to which the violence against the public was demonstrated.
That is why, it is possible to determine some relevant reasons to explain the police’s actions which can be discussed as provocative for many people who do not agree with the ideas promoted by the Ku Klux Klan.
In spite of the fact that the Ku Klux Klan is the organization which can be discussed as socially dangerous because of the supported ideas of white nationalism and racial prejudice and discrimination, the police’s actions are rational from the point of preserving the social peace and promoting the principles of the social ethics.
The police protected the Ku Klux Klan’s members because the demonstrators were not peaceful in relation to their intentions; there was the threat to the public peace; and the demonstrators’ actions can be discussed as discriminatory and based on the stereotypes and biases.
The demonstrators were rather aggressive in their intentions to labeling the Ku Klux Klan’s members in spite of the fact that the Ku Klux Klan’s meeting was not threatening to the community.