I am a little bemused as to the lack of reaction in the Danish press to the videoed police assault on the students last week at the Iraqi asylum-seekers deportation debacle. In Britain once anything so inconvenient as a video is produced, police assault gets investigated and things begin to happen. (Without a video, no they don't, but that is one of the beauties of digital democracy innit.) An officer is facing prosecution for manslaughter for an unprovoked attack on a bystander at the G-20 summit in London in April. He's been suspended. There have also been investigations of two additional cases of police assault on unarmed demonstrators (both women) at the same demonstrations. The files have been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Is unprovoked assault with batons considered okay police crowd control in Denmark? They could have got the students out of the way without batons, could they not.
We take our rights to protest seriously. Don't they care in Denmark?
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I've noticed the same and found it disturbing. The video was shown quite casually on the news and I haven't heard anything about an investigation. Upsetting.
ReplyDeleteI keep hearing from Danes who have rationalized the experience.
ReplyDeleteAnd the Danes go nuts when women are stoned to death in other countries as if they have the moral highground.
Damn, Babs, you're absolutely right.
ReplyDeleteHypocrites, through and through, it's as simple as that. They're also a very sadistic breed, the Danes. Oh trust me, there's plenty a sticky keyboard in many homes here after the release of that video!
Yes it is hypocritical, Fuzzy, but *how* does it work? Perhaps because people are so super-wedded to the compliance idea. Everybody's in this together, The Rule Is Sovereign.
ReplyDeleteWhereas of course sometimes you have the wrong rules. And you need to think out the rules according to the whole structure.
Any thoughts, anyone?