So we (a Palestine solidarity group) were leading a pride parade chanting the usual things in a megaphone. When we started chanting “From the river to the sea” the cop (who was supposed to be the liaison for pride) tried to grab the megaphone and said “you can’t say that”. Well, it turns out the person who used to babysit his kids was in our group and they gave him a dressing down while the person with the megaphone started shouting into the megaphone “from the river to the sea” the cop got really mad, was completely humiliated by his former babysitter (I think neighbour too?) and his cop body put his hand on his arm and said “what are you doing?”. At which point he backed off.
So I guess personally knowing a cop can help, just not in the way people think.
So we (a Palestine solidarity group) were leading a pride parade chanting the usual things in a megaphone. When we started chanting “From the river to the sea” the cop (who was supposed to be the liaison for pride) tried to grab the megaphone and said “you can’t say that”. Well, it turns out the person who used to babysit his kids was in our group and they gave him a dressing down while the person with the megaphone started shouting into the megaphone “from the river to the sea” the cop got really mad, was completely humiliated by his former babysitter (I think neighbour too?) and his cop body put his hand on his arm and said “what are you doing?”. At which point he backed off.
So I guess personally knowing a cop can help, just not in the way people think.