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edit on July 1st 2011 by greeneyedleo because: (no reason given)
With the first few clips I'm not so sure about police brutality.
As for the youngster, well he was disrespectful and somebody had to tell him better than he was taught, although it was excessive.
Most of these people were in a space of public disturbance.
Here is a soundless clip from 2007 in SA, where students were simply sitting in a pub and beaten down and assaulted, as the police moved from floor to
floor, brandishing machine guns and even firing into the roof.
Andries Tatane was shot and murdered during a "service delivery" protest in South Africa.
He was attacked by police when he tried to help an old man out of the way of a water cannon.
Since April this year, he's become an inspiring figure of holding the corrupt NWO self-enrichment politicians to account, as we increasingly see the
war on crime being used as an excuse to deal violently with civilians and attempts to silence the press.
He inspires many to think beyond the divide-and-rule racial rhetoric, and for all the people in the nation to remember their revolutionary roots.
Viva Andries Tatane!
edit on 1-7-2011 by halfoldman because: (no reason given)
It seems the real police brutality still goes on behind the scenes, when people from downtrodden communities are arrested on minor charges and then
die in police custody.
Nothing can ever tell the world of the horror they experienced.
Visible brutality is not the real brutality when peaceful activists are tortured and killed.
The street-cops are just the first line of defense, and rarely kill or hold the activists.
Just take the Mauritian Creole reggae musician Kaya (Joseph Topize www.cannabisculture.com...) .
He was arrested in 1999 for smoking pot on stage at a legalization rally.
For this the police murdered him in custody, and the following riots brought the island's capital to a halt for three days, and cost 50 million
Dollars.
The funeral clearly shows the anger of his community for this needless police atrocity.
It seems almost contrary to how the US keeps it's dissidents alive with a constant daily regime of drudgery, anti-depressants and mental anguish.
They prefer the promise of procrastinated show-trials to a quick martyrdom.
The possibilities of "civilized sadism" seem endless in the Wikileaks saga.
The implied message to computer geeks is real.
But in the end it's all the same hell promised to those who dare speak out against corruption and injustice.
They're all classed as "unpatriotic" to some regime that history will spit on.
Anyway, here is the Joseph Topize funeral, and many people could identify with those emotions.
We don't see the violence and brutality - but this small community let everyone know how he died as a peaceful, loving musician at the hands of
sadistic beasts.
edit on 1-7-2011 by halfoldman because: (no reason given)
While I find that video provocative and informative in and of itself, was there a point you were trying to make or some facts you wanted to bring to
the table by posting it? A solution maybe? Just posting a video without any context, support, or detraction just wastes electrons.
there was a few reasons i made this: 1. i wanted to show that police brutality happens everywhere.
2. i was tired of watching 5 minute videos only to see there is absolutely no brutality
happening 3. i was REALLY bored. 4. i wanted to show there is many types of brutality- trapping people on a stairwell and gassing them, beating
people, threatening to taze someone to death.
This makes me sick, and honestly scares me. I couldnt imagine being surrounded by a wall of masked men with bats for protesting what I belive in. We
need to fight this.
It is obvious that these particular civilans were not disturbing the peace. They were not rioting, fighting and distroying property. A lot of them
just seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Isn't there some legal recourse for these people? Possibly a class action law suite against
the police departements for assult and battery and brutality? The police need to be held accoutable for doing this to lawful citizens or this will
continue to get worse. The police have become nothing but power hungry bullies. Protect and serve the public is gone. The new motto is to bully,
harrass, intimidate and assault.
Basic assumption of all police is that everyone is guilty until proven innocent, everyone is lying and everyone is a threat to the cops own personal
safety. This absolutely WRONG! This false inital basic assumption is what starts them on the path to civilian abuse. It instills them with
irrational fear.
They need to be retrained or fired if they can 't be retrained. The first assumption is that everyone is innocent until proven guilty and people that
are not acting agressive are not threats.