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    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. As I’ve said, almost no german media outlets picks on these cases of extreme police violence even when they are actually there when it is happening so it’s next to impossible for me to send you links to newspapers.

    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 last few ones I’ve found now. 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 knuckles covered in hard plastic.
    https://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. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6PSMzaxwUp

    The rest are not as violent as the first two but they are still extremely bad and completely unjustified from a supposedly well trained police force:

    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. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7Ji4JGM6Ta/

    Here are some of cops spraying people with pepper spray at extremely close distance. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7H4E3OMGUW/ https://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. These protests are almost always peaceful. They’re not riots. They’re not destroying the city. They’re merely walking from one place to another and are met with extreme violence

    Many reports of activists with broken noses, arms, or legs coming out of here (again, in activist groups and so on; also many victims are simply posting to look for witnesses to sue cops when they end up in the hospital because of them). It also doesn’t help that in Germany the chances of successfully suing a cop are close to zero.

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      Attacking sit-in protesters

      https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5HH7H3sNWN/

      Attacking sit-in protesters

      https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6OXmErNRRu/

      Beating on a man that’s on the ground

      https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6Op_5LMudO/

      This looks like a straight up rape scene

      https://streamable.com/of0f86

      Attacking a guy for peacefully carrying a flag

      https://streamable.com/7rjsmt

      Attacking a lone man at night

      https://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.

      All I’ve posted here was filmed over the last month and just at pro palestine protests. If you really want to look for cases of german police violence altogether there are A LOT more.

      Now you tell me how many german news outlets have gone into all these cases of police violence, especially bigger ones.

      This kind of police behaviour is very normalized in Germany. I fail to understand why German society is so obedient that it doesn’t care at all about how these cops are behaving. You don’t even need to agree with the protesters to realize that this is straight up wrong and extremely undemocratic.

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      Uff, 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!

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        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.

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          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.

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            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 acceptable media outlets out there too. But again, these are mostly fringe outlets, which was exactly my point in the first place.

            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 in the current context of pro Palestine protests, then link it here. Otherwise I don’t think there’s anything left to discuss.