jeffwNYPD officer caught on video punching pro-Gaza protester during Brooklyn rally
febraIt’s crazy how this makes headlines around the world, yet we’ve had cops behave ten times worse with protesters here in Germany and it never leaves fringe news outlets. Not even one big German news outlet explicitly talks about such cases happening here. It feels like I’m living in a dystopian future.
Do you have any news articles (even local ones in German) to share regarding that? Would be interested in reading.
Just a ton of videos of police violence taken at protests and posted in activist groups on Instagram. I’ll drop you some links to them here.
Most of these videos are from a few days ago. Oldest one is from three weeks ago. Honestly they’re all scattered all throughout my gallery, so here are just the few last ones I’ve gotten. This has been ongoing since last year.
Here you can see a police officer repeatedly hitting a protester that’s already on the ground. Remember that cops have gloves with their knuckles covered in hard plastic.
www.instagram.com/reel/C6OauD0MK7j/
There’s also this one from the same event with cops pummeling protesters that are on the ground with fists and jumping on them with their knees. www.instagram.com/reel/C6PSMzaxwUp
Here is one with a cop hitting a woman directly in the face, again, with hard gloves. Also of cops almost breaking a man’s arm while on the ground. www.instagram.com/reel/C7Ji4JGM6Ta/
Here are some of cops spraying people with pepper spray at extremely close distance. www.instagram.com/reel/C7H4E3OMGUW/ www.instagram.com/reel/C7HjvAzMHEM/
There was also one with a cop on top of a woman pummeling her with his fists. I’ll keep looking for it and update the comment when I find it. Remember that these happened over the last few days. This has been ongoing for many months now and there are many horrible examples of this happening. There are also the many pictures and videos of police officers holding protesters from the back while completely covering their eyes and mouths from behind. This is inhumane. Also most of these situations are easily avoidable, but cops are more trigger happy at some protests than at others for some reason. It seems like they’ve been let off the leash to escalate these situations to the extreme.
Many reports of activists with broken noses, arms, or legs coming out of here. It also doesn’t help that in Germany the chances of successfully suing a cop are close to zero.
Attacking sit-in protesters www.instagram.com/reel/C5HH7H3sNWN/
Attacking sit-in protesters www.instagram.com/reel/C6OXmErNRRu/
Beating on a man that’s on the ground www.instagram.com/reel/C6Op_5LMudO/
This looks like a straight up rape scene streamable.com/of0f86
Attacking a guy for peacefully carrying a flag streamable.com/7rjsmt
Attacking a lone man at night streamable.com/diprmv
There’s also a video of them attacking a visibly pregnant foreign woman.
There have also been reports by irish protesters being followed around by police, so they had to seek shelter in a local coffee store until the cops got bored and left. Apparently a tactic is to follow them around until they break up in smaller groups and then violently arrest them.
So you can see, police violence that makes international headlines when it comes out of the US, goes unnoticed in Germany. It feels like I’m living in a fever dream, where the worst in the US is considered the normal here.
RoflmasterbigpimpUff, that’s hard. But people should definitely still try to sue if they feel up to it. This is the only way stuff like this gets out to the public!
That’s not how Germany functions. First and foremost, it’s next to impossible to sue the police. Secondly, the media doesn’t report on any of this and won’t. It doesn’t fit in their agenda to acknowledge that such things are happening.
That’s not true. You can definitely sue the police. You can literally sue anyone. But the chance of winning is something else. And we have lots of private Newspaper which don’t follow an “agenda” and are more than happy to report about this. For example Katapult Magazin & Volksverpetzer. There is no overall “agenda”. Don’t start to schwurble.
What I clearly meant by that is that it is impossible to successfully sue a cop. No one cares that you can sue if the chances of winning are literally zero. And that’s what your chances do look like in Germany.
Besides that Volksverpetzer is trying way too hard to go the enlightened centrist route which is especially now a problem when we’re looking at a possible genocide. Katapult Magazin is okay in that aspect. There are a few other ones there too. But again, these are fringe outlets.
Police violence that is at least as bad as the one seen in this article, or even worse, is not picked up by big media outlets in Germany as it is in other countries like the US or UK. And that is what I was criticising. If you do find an article from a big German media outlet going into detail on cops using excessive violence and pummelling protesters with fists, then link it here. Otherwise I don’t think there’s anything left to discuss.
Ahhh now it’s THIS specific kind of police violence, interesting. In your other Post it was Police using excessive violence in general which was not talked about. Moving goal posts, I see. It took 30 seconds of googling to find this. And… wow, lots of these are public media. Who could have known. You have the same flaw as most “political people” today. You have strong opinion about politics, but doing something? “Naaaah. YoU cAnT dO AnYtHinG!11!!! THEY wont let us!!!1111 No, I haven’t tried yet. I just know…” You can’t expect that People get punished for doing wrong if NO ONE does something. People have to try! You might fail because the system is rigged but not trying is no solution either, then you lose every time. You want the police to stop beating you up? SUE THEM. Start a social media campaign, do something else instead of only complaining. And don’t bother answering me I will have blocked you at this point, I have enough idle people around me, I don’t need more.’
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I’m clearly talking under a post about “PRO GAZA PROTESTS”