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| Cops gone wild: Protesters stay calm as police lose control at Balfour |
| 2020-08-24 |
| [JPost] - On Saturday night, some 10,000 people gathered outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official residence on the corner of Balfour Street in Jerusalem to protest his continued term as Israel’s political leader. The protesters were mostly peaceful. They were a diverse group of older and younger Israelis from across the religious and socioeconomic spectrum. It was no different than any of the other protests that have been held there every Saturday night for the last few months. Never mind he got to be PM via scrupulously honest election - in Israel there are no such things as mail in ballots, and every party sends representatives to the voting centers (there even were voting centers for covid positive - the personnel wore full hazmat suits). Well, how does it go "If 90% of the population disagree with us - these 90% are Enemies of the People!" But this Saturday night the situation seemed to spiral out of control. The catalyst? The Jerusalem Police District. Early in the evening, the police refused a request from the protesters to march from the Bridge of Strings at the entrance to Jerusalem to Balfour Street. While several hundred protesters took matters into their own hands and marched — that should not be allowed — the police reacted with extreme force. Nobody got dead, or even hospitalized. What "extreme force"? One officer, Niso Guetta, was filmed walking over to a protester and simply slamming him to the ground. Guetta then went after another protester, hitting him directly in the face. He then dragged the protester on the street. How do we know this? Because it was all caught on camera. I guess cops got tired of "mostly peaceful" protesters |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 Extreme force, eh? Water cannon trucks with water laced with enough cinnamon oil to raise blisters (Manuel Noriega's "smurf trucks" in Panama). 'A whiff of grape' in Paris back in the day. Oh, pushing with, probably *gasp*, unkind words and gestures... Shocking. |
| Posted by: magpie 2020-08-24 19:16 |
| #1 Police response was mostly peaceful to dealing with this illegal action protesting democracy. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-08-24 05:05 |