Re:George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter
by xorfish on Monday June 15, 2020 @10:52AM
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Extreme left. I don't think this sentiment is popular on the left as a whole.
Re:George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter
by luckylion on Monday June 15, 2020 @11:47AM
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That's hard to say, of course.
There's little rejection in left wing parties and German trade unions (with the exception of the police unions, obviously) with regards to ACAB and similar messages, although you won't find anybody running for chancellor embracing it. As they will march with the Black Bloc on ocassion, I don't think you can draw a clear line.
The parties' youth organizations are generally significantly further left, so that's a different story entirely, but that's probably true for any youth organization.
And that's not what I said. They certainly won't agree that police in Europe is "on average, very kind".
> However, people do acknowledge police is authoritative, profile racially, and abuse their power at times.
That's an overly euphemistic way of describing "ACAB", which is very common and not controversial on the left.