G20 PROTESTS, HAMBURG, GERMANY -- Where Is U.S. News Coverage

[ancianita]

From one of those who covered the DAPL protests in North Dakota.

As thousands of protesters seek shelter in Hamburg ahead of the G20, a hundred or so of these protesters attempted to set up a camp near Wohlers Park.

As meals were being served, the police showed up in mass, took the tents that were set up, and began punching, kicking, and pepper spraying the crowd.

I haven't seen any footage on TV. Yet, one can't ignore this.

[mountain grammy]

1. Wow. Terrifying!

[bobbieinok]

3. In 1989 in Hamburg

I saw what I was told were border guards looking this scary lined up at the city hsll. They were there because of a massive 'bike in!' People rode bikes to the large plaza in front of city hall to show the need for better and safer bike-ways in the city.

[applegrove]

2. Vibes that nobody gets hurt. Good luck to all.

[Roy Rolling]

4. Yes

Confrontation and civil disobedience are not easy, it takes courage and heart to be on the front lines of peaceful resistance.

[turbinetree]

5. While over in Poland and the right wing "Law and Oder" fascist party

that is controlling the country, they are trying to dismantle the courts and pack them with there right wing supremacist.

Just's like the Koch's are trying to do here with the repeal of the "blue slip" that a senator can invoke to put a hold on a nominee, if they are , lets say "extreme".................... so that courts can't be packed

[ancianita]

7. Hell, the Kochs are probably trying to buy influence over there; if not, then Putin. Gangster

capitalism is using armed dupes to wipe out democratic rule.

[turbinetree]

9. Yepper, spot on

[SergeStorms]

6. It's only going to get worse.......

as the week wears on. I'm sure the police looked at this as a 'warm-up' for the REAL hostility that will take place later in the week. Like this wasn't hostile enough?

You have to hand it to these protestors. They KNOW what's going to happen, but are committed enough to the cause that they're willing to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune(s) in order to combat the inequality in the world.

Bravo, protestors!

[DK504]

8. That was a big bad no-no. Especially for Germany,

especially by Angela. She should know better and she needs to slap the Nacho Nazi around. Maybe one of his "advisors' will notice the European/Japanese trade deal that just came down the pipes. Wishful thinking but Angelea needs to let this protest go on and stop acting like America.

Takes a real tough guy to beat on an old man and pepper spray him. Did they bring these thugs over from America?