This is a spinoff from Rob’s thread on the protests yesterday in France and beyond. These are stills from that thread.
I don’t recognize some of the positions that protestors, once overcome by police and completely harmless, have their bodies forced into.
Why are the police officers always pulling away at heads and limbs, and seemingly trying to cause severe discomfort, pain and humiliation?
Reporters even looking at the pictures seem to think this is OK! Not a dickie bird.
In these first two, are they trying to find out which way this guy’s head comes off?
This appears to be a world-wide phenomenon. Police have been given carte blanche to protect the elite, which latter controls the press and does not report police brutality, accordingly. Conversely, if a policeman is attacked, perhaps by agents-provocateur, this will be widely reported.
In my opinion, the time is rapidly approaching where the police in these types of photo’s will become the target of violence. Not in public, probably not during daylight, and cetainly when they are alone or with their families. Perhaps a taste of their own medicine and as @Sanjeev pointed out, a world-wide medicine (Israeli Defence Force trained medicine that is).
The picture clearly showstwo men punched each other.
After a massive police manhunt the suspects were identified and arrested
This is no idle point. Other footage shows the policeman manouvered the horse so it’s head was in the guy’s face. He seems to be pushing it away. This looks like the ‘punch’.
A couple seconds before that, it was the horse’s backside that swung towards him. You see him reacting in annoyance, trying to push it away. That was followed by the horse being swung round by the policeman as noted above.
Edit: Just as in the Ali/Parkinson picture (leaving aside that the smiles obviously give it away), a still picture does not prove a punch.
Seriously: that is pathetic. Our pet cat wouldn’t have been discomforted by that.
In the same twitter thread some earnest soul claims the “assailant” had a knuckle duster.
I guess it’s not a pantomime horse, but every other aspect of the whole global panto-demic certainly is. No wonder Spaffer keeps appearing in a new costume most days. When Wilfred is a bit older the tantrums and tussles in dress-up corner will be a thing to behold.
Compare the soft soap approach to police arresting XR activists and it’s all too clear - different methods altogether - where XR types are gently cradled away, Anti-Lockdown people are ALWAYS violently brought down, surrounded by a shielding array of police and, let’s face it, tortured whilst the cuffs go on to behind the back hands - I mean, when did it become routine to cuff people behind the back and then keep them face down on rough surfaces whilst up to as many as 6 cops do whatever it is they’re doing behind that shielding array? See the footage below for clear demonstration of their wholly unnecessary arresting technique - - btw, the chap in the video below was targeted because he was with a friend earlier in Whitehall - his friend had refused to move from off the road and filmed footage shows him arguing wth a police officer - the cops move away, as do the cameras - then suddenly, they jus on him and arrest him, violently…some of the footage I’ve seen is truly shocking and it doesn’t bode well for the future…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5ZOw3E78PI
HI Pat, and sadly the reason I’m here is because I don’t have links to local social media! And I found a hell of a lot more interesting and shocking photos here than I saw on any report.
You would I think be truly shocked by what is now going on here, where all 20,000 odd protestors are being told they will be hunted down, with the help of CCTV and public vigiliantes trawling through social media, and good old dobbing in. Already the police have received TEN THOUSAND tip-offs from public about friends or relatives who went to the protests, and hundreds have been hit with fines. Meanwhile the media and leaders of all parties are unstinting in their abuse of the protestors, and without the slightest appreciation that what they were protesting about (what was it now?) had any validity or was even worth a mention. Very dark times here. But there’s another story I might make into a post…
