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Hope the dude with his hands up gets ahold of this he was beaten because a bike cop tripped over his own fucking bicycle.
Funny people sitting at home in Australia thinking what’s happening in the US can’t happen here. When it’s already happening under a Labor government.
Chris Minns is a fascist genocide supporter
NSW Police like spending tax payers money by assaulting people. A friend of mine bought their first (and only) house with a hefty payout after being assaulted.
New affordable housing policy
Is the bike attached to him somehow?
Gets his foot stuck in the frame at the end but unclear what's going on at the start.
Should be a wake up call to my fellow Aussies. It ain't just a Yankee problem, the police are a problem everywhere. So many Aussies forget that our pigs have only been well behaved for a couple decades. The rest of our history is rife with them being demonstrable monsters.
Two of my friends want to join WAPOL and they are both nice women, but I wonder whether the cop culture will chew them up and spit them out, or turn them into bastards.
Lived in WA most of my life, never had a problem with WA police.
Last time I visited Sydney in 2019 it began to feel like a city from another country and the police presence was a large part of that.
One thing I'll never shake is the guards stationed outside the AFP building in the CBD with automatic weapons. Only places I've ever seen a sight like that are places like Mindanao in the Philippines, where insurgent terrorists are a real threat.
It feels like law enforcement is increasingly willing to incite and provoke violence so they can claim credit for, or otherwise politicise, their response.
It will. all cops are bastards.
It doesn't, but the trauma they'll be exposed to will impact them eventually.
the police are a problem everywhere.
And yet no other city or town experienced these issues. It's a NSW Police and Sydney culture problem.
Just because you aren't paying attention, does not mean it's not a problem. Yes the other protests went well, but consider if there were more Chris Minns. Imagine if One Nation is in power, how would they utilise the police? They are only as good as the person giving them orders. This is why they are a problem everywhere.
Just because you aren’t paying attention, does not mean it’s not a problem. Yes the other protests went well, but consider if there were more Chris Minns. Imagine if One Nation is in power, how would they utilise the police?
Putting aside the fact that you just agreed with me that police in other states and territories do not have this problem, "imagine if they also had Chris Minns" completely ignores the second part of my reasoning. Sydney has a culture problem and consistently elects terrible politicians. Other cities do not have this cultural problem, therefore they do not elect Chris Minns, therefore they do not have insane people utilising the police against protestors. Live in denial if you want, everyone outside of Sydney knows it is a shithole and not representative of the rest of the country.
Our cops are good...except the bad ones.
Na this is bullshit.
I know of cops in small towns like Hill End getting people arrested for driving with morphine in their system ... because the cunt got the guy tested for morphine after the ambulance administered the green whistle.
And cops in Queensland get aboriginal kids, drive them dozens of kilometres out of town, take their shoes and make them walk back.
Cops are cunts no matter where they are.
I thought only Canadian pigs did star light tours. Fuckers.
What does any of this have to do with protests...?
Israel is also the problem everywhere
Fucking cops escalated as if they just like punching people.
Murican cops do. They form little clics over how quickly they'll escalate. Is Australia borrowing some of ours?
Well that was totally uncalled for
Oh, so literally all cops are bastards.
Yup.
I hope the people of Sydney keep protesting today after this. Every one of these policemen need to be held accountable, there is no justifiable context for this.
I understand that there are protests happening still and more being organised.
Hopefully more bluefash trip on their bikes.
A bit off topic, but is it mandatory for Australian police to wear that mustache?
Woah, appears to be.
Makes it easier to trim the sides of the mo off when the time for pretending is over. Also very trendy amongst their comrades formerly in NSN (before it went underground)
Yeah I can't defend that, looks like the officer freaked out when there was no need to
Freaked out or was itching to punch someone? Lots of thugs go into these jobs for this exact reason.
ACAB - idiots shouldn't be cops, but that's all they'll hire
So protesting the nazi "state" head visit will get you beaten up also in Australia? Fuck the whole "western" society. Down with israel, death to IDF.
People with no self control shouldn't hold responsible positions. If your having a bad day you shouldn't be in a uniform dealing with people. Goes for any job, not just cops. Imagine if nurses behaved like this, punching every patient who pissed them off. Yet they get paid less than police for some reason.
I am not anti-police at all. Strongly disagree with the ACAB bullshit in Australia. Some cops are bastards for sure. I think they have a tough job and an important one even if their recruitment and discipline sucks (less so in Australia than the US but we could do better). I feel particularly sorry for the ones who get shot dealing with cookers and some of the stuff they have to see and deal with.
If the police service can't self discipline and weed out the trigger happy snowflakes then the public lose faith in them. They need to put cops like this on suspension and retraining. They might not have the right personality for this sort of work. It makes them look week. If your an agitator and want to start a riot it is so easy to bait weak minded law enforcement.
suspension and retraining
Discharged from the police force.
they might not have the right personality
Clearly, they don’t.
This doesn’t surprise me with the NSW police force though, they seem inclined on putting their hands on people, even teenagers. Like you I’m not necessarily in the ACAB camp but the repeated actions of these arseholes in this police force are hard to justify.
suspension and retrainingDischarged from the police force.
Ideally, if things are as clear cut as shown in the video. If the protestor committed some unseen offense like spitting on the officer it would certainly justify an arrest, something that might require force if resisted. This guy had his hands in the air. Hard to make any case that this response was justified in any way. Even the cops are innocent until proven guilty though so this is all just opinion.
Going in throwing punches makes it look like the police were drafted out of a particularly incompetent pub brawl. Weird behavior for trained public servants. I don't get how that is justified as crowd control. Makes the cops look terrified and pissing themselves with fear in a country where ordinary people take down armed terrorists with their bare hands and milk crates.
In my opinion this sort of behavior brings the service into disrepute and if not dealt with sends a message that violently assaulting peaceful protesters is tolerable. Training and recruitment have a cost and there could be systematic issues with culture and training that need to be addressed and dealing with individuals and not the organization and leadership would be short sighted. This should be investigated right up to Minns and the instructions he gave about the handling of the protest. NSW police have earned a bit of a reputation for being political enforcers.
To be fair to the cops there are protesters whose aim is to provoke a violent response from police by whatever means necessary. The police have no choice but to defend themselves and establish order with that crowd and people get hurt on both sides. There is a time and place where the police have to use violence to maintain order. In my opinion this didn't look to be such an occasion.
It makes them look weak.
It looks like the person with his hands up was trying to help the cop that fell off his bike. The second it looks like he is touching that cop some other cops start attacking him mercilessly and without much thought. The bike cop seems to be putting himself in that situation and being violent with protesters for no clear reason.
Does that seem to be the case?
I love how bitch boy looks like he's putting everything into those gut punches like he's in a movie, only for them to barely even wrinkle homie's shirt.
What's the context of this? Was the bike cop trying to arrest the guy?