Alleged context (feel free to correct if you have info in comments):

After Israeli Maccabi hooligans terrorized Amsterdam, the Dutch government demonized the pro-Palestine movement and banned protests. People came to protest anyways (peacefully)

The police arrested peaceful protesters and put them in a bus. They were driven to a parking lot. The police released them from the bus in a parking lot near a station.

While the protesters were walking to the station the police started hitting them. Allegedly for not moving fast enough.

  • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    If Russia outlawed protests and their police came to beat up people protesting anyway, would you say the same thing? Or would you laud those protesters as heroes?

    • bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Russia is not a free and democratic country.

      In this case the city of Amsterdam only made pro palestine protest illegal for a few days to protect public order after incidents of rioting. Protesting would have been fine just a few days later.

      Russia is nothing like that.

      • jerkface@lemmy.caEnglish
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        3 days ago

        So when the USA resumes conducting illegal detentions, extraordinary renditions, and mass expulsions in a few months, I guess that’s just the consequence of living in a free and democratic country, and we should just accept it.

      • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        3 days ago

        The temporary ban on demonstrating against the governments complicity in genocide. Out of fear of extreme violence which never manifestaties.

        #JustDemocracyThings.