I would like to provide some context to this video. It was filmed in Berlin, at an Pro-Palestine / anti-Israel demonstration.
Multiple journalists have been attacked during the demonstration. Levi Salomon, a journalist active in the JFDA e.V (Jewish Forum for Democracy and against Antisemitism) has been attacked by a woman who poured hot tea over him. Multiple policemen attempted to arrest this woman, but she was protected by other demonstrants. This video has been filmed directly after this incident. It shows heavy police violence that cannot be apologized, however I find this context very important.
According to the German Journalist Union (duj), more than 100 attacks on journalists during pro-palestine demonstrations have been reported in 2024. There are also police investigations running about an "enemy list" with journalists names and their private addresses.
You can read this source here, unfortunately it is in German.
I gave my best to report this in a neutral way, but if you are angry, you can of course down vote.
You are linking a right wing Zionist paper as a source which is famous for making stuff up.
This is not context this is just misinformation. Your alleged context also makes no sense with the video as the cops are mashing in skulls instead of trying to break through.
It is indeed a more conservative / center-right newspaper. That doesn't mean it is wrong. The German media landscape is much diverser and more free than what you are used to in the US.
Here is another source from a more liberal newspaper.
But let's be honest here, you are angry and do not care about information outside your bubble. That's okay, downvote and move on.
I don’t what it is about opposing the genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine that brings out the worst in Western governments and security apparatuses
That’s on purpose. The protestors made a human chain and the cops are trying to break it up. The punches are aimed so it encourages to let go of the neighbor.
They are not using the batons they also carry with them.
The civilized Western world is ramming some sense into these crazy women holding Palestinian flags where the most women are killed worldwide by the West.
Truly this is peak civilization.
I can only imagine the comments if this was Iran instead of Germany.
"They are being investigated for particularly serious breach of the peace, liberation of prisoners, resisting law enforcement officers and using symbols of unconstitutional and terrorist organizations."[...]
"Seven officers were injured, but were able to continue their duties. Journalists were also attacked. 28 people were reportedly arrested." [...] "Participants also used umbrellas to block the view of a pro-Palestinian block. Some police officers were attacked with bottles, kicks and punches. Officers then “repeatedly used physical force”, it was reported."
When it got problematic was when people on demonstrations shoutet that they wanted a kalifat (don't know how to write the word) and "from the river ...", because Hamas and other people interpret it differently.
Very fake as most of the pro-palestinian propaganda here and in other websites.
Being in favor of having a Palestinian state implies that:
no Hamas or any terrorist organization can be in power
stop teaching children to hate Jews (very common in Muslim countries by the way)
stop repressing liberal movement ("we want to live" movement for example, weird that nobody talked about it uh?)
Israel needs to stop the hostilities but it is absurd that "pro-palestinian" are more and more blind and justify easily the atrocities that the radical Muslims do to their own people.
Why do people not have critical thinking?
This is not a war to obtain the legal status of the State and being recognized by Israel, the place was owned and managed by Egypt, the same that has tunnels connected to Palestine, the same that did not accept any refugees, the same countries around Palestine that did not accept them, even Lebanon where Hezbollah is.
This is a war that a terrorist group decided to do because of foreign investments from Muslims that are ideologically against any Jew to be alive, this is why they repressed all the protestors in Palestine ALL THE TIME.
Do you want to criticize Israel for their behavior? Be my guest, I agree and I am totally against any cruelty or anything that resembles oppression but if you think Hamas or any of them do it for freedom you have absolutely no idea what you are saying and you are naive.
Mohammad Tawhidi, Mosab Hassan Yousef and hundred of people said exactly this but westerns think they know Islam better than an Imam in Dubai or Saudi Arabia that says exactly how dangerous they are.
Pretty sure nowadays in germany the palestanian flag basically counts as promoting a terrorist organization. So yeah they broke the law but the law is bullshit and still shouldnt allow the officers to exert physical violence.
You can fly the Palestinian flag just in Germany. Some slogans are typically illegal at protests like „from the river to the sea“ and a bunch of other stuff. Every protest gets its own extra rules, if deemed necessary. For example chants in Arabic might be forbidden because of incitement or hate speech in Arabic at related previous protests.
I really appreciate the link to a story on this because I hate out of context video. But I really wish they had used a different outlet like Mastodon or Bluesky, I hate giving any traffic to Xwitter.
for real, who watches this video and thinks "nah, riot police would never do that - I demand a source" 🤦♀️
EDIT: reading TingoTenga's comment history, I wonder if they were intending to be sarcastic or humorous? Or maybe they are just responding to the title of the post and not the video?
Because the EU and especially Germany is mass murdering and oppressing women in Palestine.
Liberals barging in here like the shining beacon of racism they are is truly disgusting. But examplary of its ideology. "Equality for all who are white."
I don’t know why are you shifting the topic on something else, but the conflict in Palestine was there since ages and now you’re all looking to point some fingers at someone ¯_(ツ)_/¯