Hope the police bike was able to catch up with that Polo. Nasty.
According to local news the driver was not arrested
What the hell did the cops do give him a high five?
Idk mate, it’s just what it says here:
Thank you for the source. Crazy that they let him get away. But from other videos about Dutch Cops I am not surprised.
I mean the number plate is visible in the video, that’s easily solved of they want. It’s also clearly an attempt to cause bodily harm in the least…
It’s also siding to see how little coverage this got. Even in the linked article there’s less about this incident and more about how an Israeli flag got burned
Not much of a surprise from Western media. If I recall correctly Dutch media was going in propaganda overdrive when Maccabi attacked some Dutch people, claiming that the Maccabi attackers were actually the victims. And that they were undergoing a pogrom.
The Maccabi affair was more nuanced, I’d say. There were politicians that spun it as a Jew hunt, but quite soon it became apparent that the hooligans were actively provoking and taking iyn fights themselves.
This incident is weirder, it barely gets coverage. I tried posting it in the Dutch Reddit sub but didn’t get a single upvote
Source?
De aangereden persoon is nagekeken door ambulancepersoneel, zegt een politiewoordvoerder. De demonstrant maakt het goed, volgens Van der Wurff. De bestuurder van de auto is niet gearresteerd.
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If you say peaceful protestors against genocide deserve to die for slightly incovenicing you.
I think you deserve to get your “ass ran over”.
Everyone in the anti genocide movement is on their tippy toes to avoid saying anything which could be remotely interpreted as a call to violence. The other side is so used to calling for violence that they do it wherever they go.
People say we are all on a list for using Lemmy, but this one in particular needs to be on more lists.
I was permabanned from Reddit right after the Inauguration after 12 years, and almost a million Karma, of posting radical, activist, anti-conservative, anti-MAGA posts. I’m already on a list, probably have been for a long time.
Police were already there to clear the street, but good to know we have you to handle it personally John Rambo.
what is up with these protesters blocking traffic? how does that stop a ship?
It’s a sign of frustration that the government and the broader public largely choose to ignore these issues. I’m not saying it’s smart or effective, but peaceful, calm protest hasn’t done anything in the past decades.
I’m not saying it’s smart or effective
I wonder when it’s going to finally become acceptable to admit it?
Were the George Floyd riots smart? Probably not. But when you push people this far that’s what happens. Our governments are explicitly condoning and in many cases directly participating in literal genocide.
They are blocking traffic around the town hall to inconvenience and drain money from the municipality which allows the port to be used to transport weapons to Israel.
You literally wrote the word “protesters” and appear to be confused as to what a protestor or a protest actually is?
Don’t you know? Ghandi, MLK, the Molly Meguires… They all won they’re rights by inconveniencing regular people! They definitely never engaged with people that have the actual power to change things.
All of those people did things that if you saw them today you would be saying the same things about them that you’re saying about protestors now.
MLK in particular organized a lot of traffic-blocking protests.
Well, let’s see, for one you can engage with people in power through inconveniencing “regular people.” For two, those three absolutely led movements that contained times of “inconveniencing regular people.”
Acting like they didn’t actively disrupt the status quo and lives of folks going about their regular business is very dismissive and honestly ignorant.
Three figures which exist to whitewash oppressed people freeing themselves using violence.
After mass murdering and colonizing people, the Brits saw Ghandi. He was so brave and peaceful with his hunger strike that the Brits spontaneously found their humanity and stopped colonizing. The end.
It doesn’t. I think these people are well meaning, but I’m not sure they’ve given much thought to the effectiveness of these kinds of demonstrations, in regards to actually affecting policy. I’m not sure they even care. I think stuff like this might be more about expressing their outrage than actually making any meaningful changes.
yep exactly, all it will do is increase law makers making up new rules to stop this style of protest
“this protest could have been a tweet”
Don’t be so sure. Protesters lend political capital to forces within the government who agree we should be doing more to stop this genocide.
One person with a sign is worth more than a hundred irate posts.
