• Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    I was at a peaceful rally a week ago, police showed up and acted as intimidating as possible. We stood around and listened to some very powerful speeches from Palestinians, the police left momentarily so that they could come and assualt the crowd from the side.

    They pepper sprayed children. Fuck every cop who ever did their job.

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        5 months ago

        You have no idea and are choosing to assume the protesters did something bad. It’s also possible (and likely) that the cops just abused their power and attempted to break up the protest illegally since they do stuff like that all the time.

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            5 months ago

            yeah, thoughts & prayers to the cops for turning another peaceful protest violent.

            maybe approach the subject again once you’re done slobbering on pig pp.

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            5 months ago

            Demanding an intifada is neither wrong nor illegal (at least not in the US). Palestinians have the right to resist their oppressors.

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            5 months ago

            You think, so it must be. Who cares about facts and statistics. You know best, oh very wise one. By the way, what makes you come to this conclusion? Do you go to protests a lot, are you with the police, do you read a lot on Facebook on shady right wing pages, did Qanon tell you this,… I’d love to hear your support to your claim.

            By the way, intervening a peaceful protest which includes children has a very very low probability of risk for police. They would think twice when the protesters are violent, but when they are peaceful they won’t hit back that hard so it’s rather safe to escalate. The cops in the task forces for breaking up protests are generally people who love to fight, filled with adrenaline and testosterone. Cops who are less eager to fight usually have desk jobs or are regular street officers.

            I don’t know in what country you live, but in countries with freedom of speech you’re free to demand whatever you like, as long as you do not turn violent (except when you’re police of course).

            Please stop spreading unsupported bullshit arguments based on “I think” and “looks like” when you clearly have zero knowledge of how police operate (which I do) and clearly have no clue about this protest (as you make very wrong assumptions)

      • Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        5 months ago

        Wow, what an awful thing to assume. No, we listened to people talk about losing their families and the villages they grew up in.

        No one was violent, no one called for violence and there was nothing for the police to stop. We walked through a street and then stood still peacefully.

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        5 months ago

        What’s the age limit when a child is allowed to learn from an adult’s example about peaceful activism

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            5 months ago

            “If it was peaceful, why did the police show up?”

            “If you were innocent, then why were you arrested?”

            Bad arguments are bad.

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            Police violence is something different then peaceful protesting. It turns into non-peaceful as soon as the police starts to use force without a proper cause. It’s called “abuse of power”. Cops love to get violent, especially when the protesters do not (so they won’t hit back).

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            5 months ago

            Yes, it was completely peaceful as it has been for the past 30 something weeks that these rallies have been held.

            If you’ve ever been to a demonstration you’d understand that all the police do is show up and cause violence. No one needed protecting from us, we walked down a goddamn street. Last time I checked that wasn’t exactly a violent act. But people sure needed protecting from the police…

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        5 months ago

        Children came to support a peaceful rally, they weren’t in danger until the police showed up.

        There are many young people who care about things and want to help, many are refugees themselves and have just as much of a right to be there as anyone else. People are there to share stories, raise money for relief funds and to show our goddamn solidarity for people being murdered in their homes.

        These rallies have been running for months now and no one at them has caused any issues, but the cops sure fucking have.

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        5 months ago

        It was a peaceful protest. The only danger was from the -checks notes- boys in blue sworn to protect them? That CANT be right.

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        It’s irresponsible for the police to abuse their power and use pepper spray on children at a peaceful protest.

        Going outside has a risk of getting hit by a car. So now it’s irresponsible to take your kids outside? It’s not normal to get hit by a car, but it’s also not normal for police to use violence on non-violent protes… Oh wait, yes that indeed IS normal now, depending on the religion, ethnicity, political statement of the protesters.

        Imo it’s irresponsible to have kids in the first place by the way, it’s not irresponsible though to bring your kids to a peaceful protest as no one expect police to pepper spray your kids without cause. Or at least, that is how it should be. When you claim it’s irresponsible to bring your kids because you can expect police to use violence without cause, to abuse their power even though you are there because of your constitutional right, you acknowledge the police violence without condemning it.

        You are victim blaming.