[video=youtube;MKZUjpqgRo4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKZUjpqgRo4[/video]
If think we all can condemn journalists being attacked by protesters. It was not Tim being attacked but another American and German journalist. They were photographed and the photos were shared online along with that they were part of the far-right.
The German guy is interviewed in the video. First his American collegue was beaten then they were escorted away by the attackers, when they returned later to continue cover the protests. Both were beaten.
If any individual or group is ever engaged in this, they should be condemned and any connections severed with them. Violence against others because of their political leanings is never okay, you aren't justified in doing this when they are just walking pass you and in this case not even far-right.
[video=youtube;6vpJwfTYtJ0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vpJwfTYtJ0[/video]
Another independent journalist (Luke Rudkowski and his crew, WeAreChange) also got attacked by protestors at the G20 protest. And get this. Apparently they got assaulted because some German journalist tweeted that those independent journalists, such as Rudkowski and Tim Poole were fascists and Nazis, which he sent to the local Antifa rioteers. Even right down to their person descriptions. Said journalist also notified his Antifa buddies if those independent journalist were changing their clothes to avoid the earlier descriptions.
Ironically enough, those Antifa scumbags and those people higher-up who keep letting them off with slaps on the wrists for such abhorrent behavior act more like actual fascists than almost everyone they accuse of being fascists. The German police aren't acting harsh enough against groups like Antifa, who are nothing more than violent scumbags who just want to vandalise random stores, torch random civilian cars and fight with the police for no damn reason other than that they are a bunch of violent thugs. There are also reports coming in that the protesters are looting shops in Hamburg as well now.
wait, so they attacked them based off a tweet?
are you kidding?
[QUOTE=Lollipoopdeck;52443997]wait, so they attacked them based off a tweet?
are you kidding?[/QUOTE]
Twitter is serious shit now, I'm surprised people haven't started wars over their tweets yet.
[QUOTE=Lollipoopdeck;52443997]wait, so they attacked them based off a tweet?
are you kidding?[/QUOTE]
What did you expect? There's a huge number of violent anarchists there.
At least 159 police officers have been injured today, now they're sending in special forces equipped with machine pistols to stop them from plundering it seems.
Political vigilantes may become a large problem in the future. If they without questioning beat people up based on tweets. In Sweden, we had this pathetic left-wing extremist group spray-paining, smashing windows and throwing fireworks in people's home, just because they or their kids were right-wing extremists. One time, a firework almost hit a sleeping child. It's madness. Politics should come from free will and democracy, not violence against low-level people and their families.
Here's a live ticker with images: [url]http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/g20-gipfel-im-newsblog-hunderte-wollen-gipfel-blockieren-a-1155714.html[/url]
excerpt: [URL="https://tweetsave.com/ceylanim55/status/883433766374526976"][media]https://twitter.com/Ceylanim55/status/883433766374526976[/media][/URL]
It's looking bad, especially by German standards.
We occasionally have violent leftists, but not to [I]this[/I] extent.
[QUOTE=Tamschi;52444081]What did you expect? There's a huge number of violent anarchists there.
At least 159 police officers have been injured today, now they're sending in special forces with machine pistols to stop them from plundering it seems.[/QUOTE]
yeah but using twitter as if its a reputable source to attack someone is retarded lmao
[editline]7th July 2017[/editline]
Jesus hope people stay safe
[URL="https://tweetsave.com/polizeihamburg/status/883446756230483968"][media]https://twitter.com/PolizeiHamburg/status/883446756230483968[/media][/URL][quote=Hamburg's police]We are currently counting 197 injured police officers.
There are no figures regarding injuries to disturbers/non-participants.#G20HAM17[/quote]
G20 should just be held on a remote island.
[QUOTE=01271;52444206]G20 should just be held on a remote island.[/QUOTE]
Indeed, this was just inviting massive protests. 20.000 police officers from across Germany are there just for this. Hardly resources well spent.
[QUOTE=RB33;52444230]Indeed, this was just inviting massive protests. 20.000 police officers from across Germany are there just for this. Hardly resources well spent.[/QUOTE]
Some people are saying that they are asking even the Austrian police to send in reinforcements. Christ, where has that famed German 'ordnung' gone where they used to be so proud of?
[QUOTE=Jordax;52444323]Some people are saying that they are asking even the Austrian police to send in reinforcements. Christ, where has that famed German 'ordnung' gone where they used to be so proud of?[/QUOTE]
I think that was done for once 'protesters' from all over Europe arrived. Not that ours are necessarily better, but there's just too many.
I'm looking at Hamburg in Snapmap right now. It looks way worse than what you see in the tweets I embedded :ohno:
[QUOTE=Tamschi;52444339]I think that was done for once 'protesters' from all over Europe arrived.
I'm looking at Hamburg in Snapmap right now. It looks way worse than what you see in the tweets I embedded :ohno:[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I've seen small videos of Ferguson-tier looting in Hamburg. Along with around five dozen videos of different car fires throughout the entire city. I am surprised that the Germans would let it get out of hand this much, honestly. Wonder if we get any of Facepunch's local Antifa supporters in this thread arguing on why lighting random cars on fire, beating up independent journalists and looting stores and supermarkets is justifiable to them.
It looks like the riots are for the most part contained to one area, at least.
Still, there are multiple blocks that appear to be [I]really[/I] badly affected by this.
Knowing German police and their methods, the ones that did all that pointless violence are gonna get shafted hard.
[QUOTE=MendozaMan;52444451]Knowing German police and their methods, the ones that did all that pointless violence are gonna get shafted hard.[/QUOTE]
They just cleared the main area, it seems.
[quote=~15 minutes ago, SPIEGEL ONLINE][img]https://images.scribblelive.com/2017/7/7/88253969-205e-4fe5-ad0a-a4bec8dd8067.jpg[/img]
Die Polizei hat die Straßen rund um die Rote Flora wieder unter Kontrolle. (Foto: Reuters)[/quote]
([URL="http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/g20-gipfel-im-newsblog-hunderte-wollen-gipfel-blockieren-a-1155714.html"]sourc[/URL][URL="https://archive.is/ShFr1"]e[/URL])
It's okay though, the pizza is still being delivered on time
[media]https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/883512448501727233[/media]
Jesus, are people really getting this violent over anti-capitalist demonstrations?
[QUOTE=Lollipoopdeck;52443997]wait, so they attacked them based off a tweet?
are you kidding?[/QUOTE]
There's worse:
[vid]http://vid.pr0gramm.com/2017/07/07/65b2dddbbeeb850c.mp4[/vid]
They attack this one (Marcus DiPaola) out of nowhere and just call him a nazipig. They are using mob mentality to their advantage.
[QUOTE=Destroyox;52445835]Jesus, are people really getting this violent over anti-capitalist demonstrations?[/QUOTE]
Rioting is the language of the unheard.
What fucking vile wastes of fresh air those cunts are. Who the fuck just attacks someone in groups like that just because someone said they were something.
[QUOTE=Dave_Parker;52446117]Why don't they storm the actual G20 then instead of looting stores and setting cars on fire[/QUOTE]
that would take actual guts and conviction in their ideals to do
What a literal shit storm
[QUOTE=Sky King;52446021]Rioting is the language of the unheard.[/QUOTE]
We live in the age of the internet, where all ideas are given a platform, even completely retarded ones. If you're unheard in 2017, there's probably a very good reason for it.
Maybe we should stop being blind on the left eye.
[QUOTE=CarnolfMeatla;52446292]Maybe we should stop being blind on the left eye.[/QUOTE]
Do you people communicate exclusively in meaningless catchy phrases?
[QUOTE=Sky King;52446021]Rioting is the language of the unheard.[/QUOTE]
I totally agree. Especially the right extremists with their bombing of asylum housings are in their right to do so. That is also why they are RIGHT wing. They are always right. The government may be to blame that their criticism of the current refuge policies are [B]unheard[/B]. So they are allowed to use violence to bring their point to attention of the population.
...
This is not my opinion. I just used his opinion and applied it to other side of the political spectrum, to get my point across that rioting is in no way [B]THE[/B] form of language for the unheard.
You also have to look at the psychological aspect of it. People who are moderate look at this and think "so violence is okay in their eyes? I don't think so, I won't support their cause" and people will be against the general ideology of the left because they are willfully ignorant of these people who use violence in their name.
And then you have the right wing who just has to point at them and say "Look at those people, they are the real fascists. They use violence against any opposing opinion, and even destroy the property of the people who are in no way affiliated to any of these political gatherings which they are against".
And people wonder why there is a rise of the right wing in Europe.
[QUOTE=Antimuffin;52445879]There's worse:
[vid]http://vid.pr0gramm.com/2017/07/07/65b2dddbbeeb850c.mp4[/vid]
They attack this one (Marcus DiPaola) out of nowhere and just call him a nazipig. They are using mob mentality to their advantage.[/QUOTE]
Judging by his twitter, he's not even right-wing. Which also plays into the next point:
[QUOTE=Sky King;52446021]Rioting is the language of the unheard.[/QUOTE]
All you need to do here in Germany to be heard is to go outside and hold a [U]peaceful[/U] protest.
Going by most of the reporting/witness accounts I've seen so far, many of the rioters and violence tourists there don't have a political motivation at all. They only want to commit violence and/or be entertained by it.
[QUOTE=Tamschi;52446667]Going by most of the reporting/witness accounts I've seen so far, many of the rioters and violence tourists there don't have a political motivation at all. They only want to commit violence and/or be entertained by it.[/QUOTE]
Which is why no one should support them ever, they are just people looking for an excuse to be violent or commit crimes and getting away with it. There is no reasonable political campaigning from these people, everyone actually serious in political change should stay away from them. And if they ever think that this is beneficial to their cause, it's not. It's only turning most ordinary people away, the people they need to enact actual change.
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