Fascist scum

Not to express support for the cops in any way, but for a bit of context: Publicly insulting a person is a crime in Germany. The old guy here did give the cops a great excuse to arrest him.

Dit is Berlin...

its what the IDF would do too,.

Like people who always jump to say this in such posts: we don't know the context. And it's true that we don't know the immediate context. But we do know the wider context. This forceful suppression of pro-Palestinian speech is consistent with the concerns repeatedly expressed by multiple human rights organizations about the systemic biases of the German state.

To make a slightly distasteful analogy: if this was a video of ICE agents arresting a Latino person at a protest outside a detention center, sure we would not have the context of that person's actual immigration status. But we do have the wider context of a systematic crackdown on Latinos by ICE.

Do you want to actually defend the honour of German police? Organize and push politically for systemic change. Otherwise, your pearl clutching about "context" will only read as complicity to the systemic issues.

Turns out cops are the same wherever you go.

Denazification didn’t work. The occupation authorities realised that if they hanged all the Nazis there wouldn’t be enough people left to be a viable country. So the virus gestated.