Live: Police condemn violence as dozens of protesters arrested, 24 officers injured

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• Baku@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The only thing that was really sad to see about this was the horses

  Cops bringing animals to protests they plan to start violence in is fucked. I feel the same about the attack dogs they sometimes use too. It seems like they bring them solely as some kind of power projection, and in the case of dogs, so they can inflict serious injury without any kind of investigation stemming from it, and with the moral quandary that most people can’t or won’t hurt an animal

  I don’t condone anybody harming animals, but it seems like police have animals mainly so they can provoke people into injuring the animals and then yelling about how unfair it is the animals get injured. Also, we aren’t in 17th century Britain, don’t bring a fucking horse to a protest you archaic savages.

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The British police still love nothing more than a mounted charge on football rioters. Or at a peaceful candlelit vigil if the protestors unhelpfully refuse to become rioters.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I did cackle a bit at the cops complaining about people hurling horse shit.

    Gee. I wonder how the protestors got hold of that.

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  • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You know the horses also cause serious injuries yeah? Like the whole point of them is so cops can move protestors for fear of being stepped on.

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    • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You know that doesn’t make it any better yeah? Like the idea they force animals to go injure people they don’t like is pretty fucked.

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Police bring violence to bear, condemn it and blame others

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  • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep. The whole thing stinks. Cops have a nasty habit of either intentionally escalating, or at the very least, not trying to de-escalate protests and similar large scale events

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  • kerrypacker@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The police didn’t bring any violence, have you watched any footage at all of these fuckwit protesters? They are there to create conflict.

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• zero_gravitas@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  a liquid irritant, some of which has been identified as acid

  ‘Acid’ hardly narrows it down… Often the cops will say it’s ‘acid’ when people throw rancid butter bombs, which obviously are designed to stink, not maim. They’re trying to bullshit the public into believing that protestors are trying to give cops chemical burns. Meanwhile, the cops are using capsicum spray, tear gas and rubber bullets.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Citrus juice, vinegar and yoghurt all contain / are acid for example

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    • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was actually thinking it looks a bit like tomato sauce. Tomato sauce has a vinegar base and is mildly acidic, right? It’s also a red liquid…

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• Aradina@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Police condemn violence” lol

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• Fleur_@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Live: protesters condemn police violence

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Police condemn protester violence at a literal weapons of war convention.

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why did people bring acid to a peace marsh? Were they planning violence?

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  • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Meh, the cops kind of had it coming. Objectively poor behaviour, but maybe if the cops went in with respect and tried to de-escalate, things would’ve been less violent

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  • Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It wasn’t a peace march, the organisers called for attendees to carry out citizen’s arrests on anyone they believed to be attending the convention. In 7:30’s footage you can see random people who have no connection to anything happening trying to walk past and being assaulted by the protestors because of how they dress. The language used by the protestors was not “we are here to protest” but instead “we are here to disrupt” so their intentions yesterday were clearly never to be peaceful. In the footage you can also see some of them deliberately and repeatedly running into the police while filming for TikTok so they can be pushed away and scream about police brutality to their viewers.

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  • blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It could literally be yoghurt or vinegar, if it was actually anything worst they would’ve stated what it was.

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• assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I bet you that the police escalated the situation and are in fact to blame for the violence.

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