I can easily continue, because our cops get proper training and don’t kill thousands of people a year.
Political gatherings are protected by law and police exists to enforce the law. As long as no court declares the party illegal, it’s their job to ensure they can gather, because they are a party. Same goes for all other parties.
But they are different! Our police still has an appreciation of the value of closeness to the population that can only be reached through the use of a baton.
Non of this inpersonal gun stuff with shooting people from afar, please. A cop needs to see into the persons face they brutalise to really make a connection to their community.
I’m in 2 minds on this. It reads (and looks) like the police were dealing with deliberate civil disobedience, against a legal event. (Yes I feel dirty describing it like that, but it’s true).
Looking at the video, it looks like a twitch response that they reigned in immediately. The police officer had protestors all around him and was likely feeling defensive. It shouldn’t have happened, but it was a quick human/training failure.
As for the police stopping them at all. The best we can hope for now, is for the police being neutral. I would hope that the police would step in, if it was a bunch of right wingers trying to invade a gay pride event. It’s hard to argue the reverse, when the shoe is on the other foot.
And just to clarify, I’m well on the side of the protestors here. It’s just one of the things you need to accept if you’re pushing the law. I’ve played run-around with the police at protests myself before (years back now, unfortunately). I knew the police had to oppose us, and accepted that fact.
I need Europeans to stop insisting their police “are different” when they constantly do stuff like this and brutalize refugees and environmentalists.
You can criticize European police and still acknowledge that they are nowhere near as bad as the cops in the US.
I can easily continue, because our cops get proper training and don’t kill thousands of people a year.
Political gatherings are protected by law and police exists to enforce the law. As long as no court declares the party illegal, it’s their job to ensure they can gather, because they are a party. Same goes for all other parties.
In the Netherlands and the UK political gatherings are no longer protected by law.
The “law” is nothing but the enshrined power of the elites.
But they are different! Our police still has an appreciation of the value of closeness to the population that can only be reached through the use of a baton.
Non of this inpersonal gun stuff with shooting people from afar, please. A cop needs to see into the persons face they brutalise to really make a connection to their community.
Step 1: realize Europe is not a country and police doesn’t act the same everywhere
I’m in 2 minds on this. It reads (and looks) like the police were dealing with deliberate civil disobedience, against a legal event. (Yes I feel dirty describing it like that, but it’s true).
Looking at the video, it looks like a twitch response that they reigned in immediately. The police officer had protestors all around him and was likely feeling defensive. It shouldn’t have happened, but it was a quick human/training failure.
As for the police stopping them at all. The best we can hope for now, is for the police being neutral. I would hope that the police would step in, if it was a bunch of right wingers trying to invade a gay pride event. It’s hard to argue the reverse, when the shoe is on the other foot.
And just to clarify, I’m well on the side of the protestors here. It’s just one of the things you need to accept if you’re pushing the law. I’ve played run-around with the police at protests myself before (years back now, unfortunately). I knew the police had to oppose us, and accepted that fact.
Quickly! Someone mention the USA! They’re not getting enough attention!