NYPD officer caught on video punching pro-Gaza protester during Brooklyn rally

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NYPD officer caught on video punching pro-Gaza protester during Brooklyn rally - Lemmy.World

Fucking disgusting.
That’s not proper procedure, that’s assault. I would totally back that crowd if they swarmed in and beat the shit out of those cops after seeing that.

I completely expected at least some incidents of crowds mass uprising against cops during the 2020 brutalities. I don’t mean burning down police stations. I mean literally attacking every cop on the street after Twitter was awash with cops running over protesters, cracking an old mans skull open, etc. I would have thought cops would be afraid of citizen mobs coming to their homes.

The degree of repression that we just accept, despite our anger, is shocking to me. And I say this as an anti-violence person. I wouldn’t have taken part in such an uprising. But I thought there are enough people who would be pushed over the edge that I was sorta dismayed that a mini-revolution didn’t happen.

YES! YES! YES! THIS IS LITERALLY WHY I’M ANGRY. I DON’T CARE THAT THERE’S FASCISTS!!! WHEN ARE WE FIGHTING BACK? I WANT TO FIGHT BACK!