r/europe • u/Dazzling_Lobster3656 • 1d ago

Irish protester ‘repeatedly punched in the face by police’ during Gaza protest in Berlin

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/irish-protester-repeatedly-punched-in-the-face-by-police-during-gaza-protest-in-berlin/a249856773.html
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u/elPerroAsalariado 1d ago

If a protest doesn't inconvenience anyone... Who would ever listen to it?

Have you seen the video? She was repeatedly hit in the face without a violent response from her side

Mean words

Ah yeah, that poor cop

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u/An22x 1d ago

I've seen the video, yes. The cops told them to leaves the area because they have Platzverweis. She didn't move. Cops continued to tell them they need to move in that direction. She didn't move. Cops tried to push the protestors in that direction. She literally moved towards the cops seeking confrontation. Obviously she then said some of the various insults that you can find in the press statement, so a cop punched her. And she continued to move towards them. Like bruh.

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u/elPerroAsalariado 1d ago

Have you seen any protest ever?

Are you implying what she was doing was either violent or that she had it coming?

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u/Koizito 1d ago

What do their boots taste like?

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u/An22x 1d ago

If you go into a protest with this mindset, no wonder you end up getting punched.

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u/Martzi-Pan 1d ago

Both sides are wrong.

But shouting at the cap, insulting, calling him named, etc... nah, it's bound to make him angry and lose his cool.

Protests are already an inconvenience against politicians. It's the image. It's to show you disagree with something/someone.

Police are there to protect others. We don't live in the jungle. I've been to mass protests, we didn't shout at cops, we blocked the city center, and shouted slogans against the government and even sung happy birthday to a cop... and we achieve our goal to repel a law.

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u/EdgiiLord 1d ago

With the price of countless civilians, including kids and mothers, being assaulted by the police, when a bunch of football hooligans decided to crash the protests that were already pretty tense. The police are not on your side, they will start beating the shit out of you whenever they see the right opportunity to do so with minimum backlash: in more democratic states, excuses as right to defend, in more authoritarian states, just because the protesters are considered as "terrorists".