I was at the Demonstration yesterday and a few blocks in front of where we were the Police arrested someone who chanted "From the River to the Sea" in the International Block and then got hit with flag Poles. Then Police knocked out a 65 year old man, and arrested 15 others some ended up in Hospitals....
Palestinian protesters seem to be bearing the brunt of police crackdowns on protests in Germany — “We Jews are just getting arrested, the Palestinians are being beaten,” Hefets says. One example was the brutal arrest of a hijab-wearing protester at a sit-in in Berlin central station this past weekend, which was captured on...
Truly unfortunate. I propose an additional $50 million funding in police training will prevent such mishaps in the future.
Annelise Orleck, a 65-year-old Jewish professor at Dartmouth University, was floored twice by aggressive police officers who took away her phone while she was standing with pro-Palestinian student activists....
Within minutes, the Berlin police stormed the conference and forced the 250 attendees to disband. The police shut off the building’s electricity and demanded that the organizers stop livestreaming on their phones. Protests erupted in the surrounding streets, and riot police blocked and encircled the protest with vehicles. Many...
Cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/Europe/t/856426
Workers World spoke with encampment participant Nada Anusi, one of the students arrested May 10, who said: “On Friday morning, at about 5:30 am, we were woken from our sleep by the police with only two minutes left to gather our things and leave. While we anticipated a raid, especially in the early morning when community...
Since 9/11, many U.S. police departments, including Philadelphia’s, have been routinely trained by [neocolonial] “security experts.”...
Even before they had finished with their mass arrests at Columbia, the cops sent significant numbers a mile or so north to CCNY. When they had what they considered enough force, they started to sweep the CCNY campus, arresting 179 people both on and off the campus. (Columbia Spectator, May 1)...
They even used the ‘leg on neck’ technique on him. Disturbing....
Berlin: Pensioner sustains life-threatening injuries after being involved in the Luxemburg-Liebknecht demonstration. A conversation with Alexander Klein...
The Free Jerusalem movement, an […] anti-occupation group, says [that neocolonial] police have detained five people and assaulted others who were “protesting against the criminal attack on Gaza”....
Cohen was covering a spontaneous protest that took place outside Likud headquarters on Saturday night after the conclusion of the scheduled rallies on Kaplan Street and Hostages' Square. A crowd of several hundred demonstrators gathered in the street, encircling a large metal box in which a fire burned underneath the words "No...
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2280820...
On Wednesday, the police refused to approve a Jewish-Arab demonstration that was scheduled to take place at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on Thursday. It was organized by Standing Together and Women Wage Peace. These organizations appealed to the commander of the police's Tel Aviv district, Maj, Gen. Peretz Amar, asking him to...
Neocolonial police terrorizing a Jewish man in a wheelchair....
OAKLAND, Calif. — A former correctional officer at a federal California women’s prison known for numerous misconduct allegations was sentenced to six years in prison for sexually abusing five inmates, federal officials announced Wednesday....
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1476769...
Timothy Murray lost his father earlier this year and had been asking his principal for counseling when she called in the police
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17428327...
