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Berlin police chased down a young boy waving a Palestinian flag, ultimately arresting him.
Footage shows the distraught-looking boy being taken away by a large number of riot police at the edge of a pro-Palestine protest in the German capital.
Somebody explain to me how this isn't fascism.
Kind of amazing how utterly unconcerned with getting shot everyone is tbh
@yogthos smdh do they have nothing better to do?
@yogthos While I am aware that the German "Staatsräson" of supporting the state of Israel "no matter what" lead to authoritarian and borderline fascist behavior, I also have to emphasize that videos like this are usually cut to hide what originally triggered the police response. Waving a Palestinian flag is perfectly ok; people do that all the time. Chanting something like "From the river to the sea" however is considered hate speech (Volksverhetzung).
@neo they're chasing a small child around, trying to rationalize this is just carrying water for the fascists.
The fact that "From the river to the sea" is considered hate speech in Germany is itself fucked up beyond belief. It's a call for liberation of people whose land was stolen and who are being genocided with the German support.
History will not look kindly upon Germans.
@yogthos Hey, don't shoot the messenger. I just wanted to mention a bit of context, respectively the lack thereof. I'm not in the position to judge about the the right of existence of the state of Israel, nor the state of Palestine.
@yogthos classic police tactic of going against the weakest person they can find in a group
@yogthos Honestly, I was expecting way worse from the Berlin police when I clicked on the video.
I have no context but I would assume that the authorities have issued conditions for the demonstration, like "no waving flags" which is quite normal business in Germany and is also done regularly on left wing as well as right wing demonstrations.
Maybe that's what triggered the Police. The video does not show what happened before the boy was chased. Maybe the Police told him to put the flag down and he just ran way.
How would you have handled the situation as the police?
In the end it looks like the boy was not harmed. The handled im gently, looks like one of the police man is checking on him if he is okay. The others are shielding him from the crowd.
The Berlin police has done far worse like using pain compliance techniques on underaged climate protestors that did not resist in any way.
@martin I think the real issue here is with the fact that Germany is making it illegal to display solidarity with the people against whom a genocide is being committed that Germany is directly complicit in.
The police are just enforcing the laws of the German regime.
@yogthos
Etonnant de voir des policiers dans l'exercice de leur fonction avec leur numéro d'identification bien visible. Si aujourd'hui la France fait exception dans l'UE grâce à Macron ce n'est pas pour son caractère bienveillant vis à vis des plus fragiles mais pour son engagement à marche forcée vers l'état barbouze 
@yogthos La police allemande prend exemple sur la police française et devient aussi immonde... Le terrorisme c'est eux. Pauvre minot !