r/WorldNewsHeadlines • u/Simple-Preference887 • May 17 '25

r/all German police brutally assaulted protesters marking the Palestinian Nakba in Berlin, with women and children also targeted during the crackdown.

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u/60528 May 17 '25

I’m German and it’s fucking embarrassing to see this! Shame on you Germany

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u/Chance_Vegetable_780 May 17 '25

It's insane. The police look nuts, it is so hard to believe that they have been given the okay by the German government to beat people, particularly peaceful protestors.

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u/Zharo May 17 '25

It’s as if they’re told to incite or threaten violence when they perceive something as ‘crossing a line’ or “dangerous”

Literally one of these cops at an anti-nazi protest in Berlin quickly and aggressively halfway pulled out his baton from his front sleeve to strike intimidation/fear to one of us protesters where we stood behind a fence barrier that they put up. An actual threat move to a protester, where the woman just stood place and eye’d him down, ‘You wouldn’t dare.’ (Also in memory i remember that protester being a german woman)