World News @lemmy.ml acargitz @lemmy.ca 2mo ago

German police chase a 10-year-old boy with Palestinian flag during pro-Palestine protest in Berlin

TFW you support Israel so much that you start treating Palestinian children just like they do.

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Um, whilst I agree that the powers that be are definitely anti-palestine, this is just a video of cops chasing a kid who happens to be holding a palestine flag.

Given that other people are also holding flags and not being chased, I'm guessing they're not chasing him just because he's holding the flag.

This is pretty disingenuous social media reporting.

Edit: The novaramedia link up in the thread does seem to show excessive police action against peaceful protest. I don't think the video shows this, but it could be related.
- I don't understand people down voting this. I'm with you - I am pro-Palestine, condemn the war crimes being committed by Israel, and recognize the pro-Israel political bias in several western countries.
  
  With that said, this video provides 0 information on what is happening and why. I understand the bad optics of the video with multiple cops chasing a small child & him being placed in a van, but there is no indication as to why this was happening. The cops seemed professional, they were not physical with the child or protesters chucking stuff at them.
  
  If you try to find any information about what happened in English - all you can find are middle eastern based news sites pushing a backlash narrative, without any evidence of backlash outside YouTube comments, Reddit & now here.
  
  There is definitely an issue with pro-Israel bias in Germany because of their history, there is definitely an anti-Muslim sentiment among the right leaning population in Germany (as in many other European countries due to the perception and challenges of immigration.) But with that said - there is no reason to think the police are doing anything wrong here without some context.
  
  This is how fascism is successful, because liberals will lie for a lie, but they won’t lie for the truth.
- Hello? This is the internet. Please don’t complicate things with your thinking and logic. /s
In the US they would’ve tased him.
- Or shot him as well as 2 bystanders and another cop, and then claimed he had a knife, but that it was subsequently stolen.
  
  ...And his pet dog
This video doesn't even show why the child is getting chased.
- According to the police the kid was being chased and secured for his own safety because he was unsupervised at the event. He was returned to the father.
  
  Well, that's... unexpectedly reasonable.
  
  EDIT: Unexpectedly reasonable for the cops to be even remotely altruistic. Unfortunately in this day and age, I was fully expecting the cops to just curbstomp the poor kid.
  
  Do you have a source? I couldn't find anything about the situation outside of middle eastern news sites talking about Germany being in the wrong side of history & backlash because of the video.
- In the western country where I live, riot cops don't chase kids like that.
  
  Now I'm torn between:
  
  A) riot cops ignore kid
  
  B) riot cops fire 40mm "non-leathal" whatever at kid, killing them instantly
- Yeah that 10 year old had it coming.
  
  That'll teach him to fly illegal flags, hope he gets hard labour otherwise society is doomed.
- yeah, maybe „he hit a police women with the pole“ (was in the youtube comments) Dont know how illegal it is to have a palestinian flag with you.
  
  If the Palestinian flag is illegal then all the more reason to fly it. They just want to live free and unoppressed.
- He's ten, flip him the bird and watch him tire himself out.
And arresting him too, by the looks of it.
Germans try not to be fascist challenge impossible.
- Its a senseless paradox, if you are against the genocide in gaza you are labeled as an antisemit and if you are for the fascist isreal government you are also a fascist.
Is it true that a lot of people arrested under germany's antisemitic speech laws are jewish (mostly for supporting palestine)? I saw this somewhere recently but can't find anything now.
- https://novaramedia.com/2024/04/17/germanys-anti-palestine-crackdown-has-reached-a-new-low/
clickbait as always. Al Jazeeras also going crazy with their titles. Whenever anything happens its "Western countries Bad", when you do some dd though, most of the time its obv that nothing really happened.

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