Indomitable Kitty O’Brien smiles to supporters as police thugs drag her away despite bleeding face and broken arm
The habitual thuggery of Berlin police toward anti-genocide protesters has been on show again in the brutal beating of well-known Irish activist Kitty O’Brien, punched repeatedly in the face and breaking her arm despite her posing no threat to officers or the public, leading to a formal complaint from Ireland’s ambassador to Germany.
The assault on Ms O’Brien was filmed by a bystander and released by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign:
Ireland PSC commented:
This is absolutely disgusting. Germany is attacking anti genocide protesters, all while arming apartheid Israel and running cover for its mass murder of Palestinians. This is activist Kitty O’Brien, a member of Irish Bloc Berlin, punched twice in the face and arm broken by these ultra violent police. Germany is an active participant in Israel’s genocide. Solidarity to Kitty and all who stand up to this rotten complicity.
German police have long been condemned for constant use of excessive and unprovoked violence toward those who dare to speak out about Israel’s genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Palestinian people, with Germany’s government continuing to assist and collude in the crimes despite the murder of more than 430,000 Palestinians, nine out of ten of them civilians – according to the Israeli military’s own data.
Despite her injuries, Ms O’Brien smiled defiantly to supporters as police dragged her away:
Ireland’s ambassador to Germany lodged a formal ‘expression of concern’ and the German government announced it was ‘investigating’, which no one who has observed its collaboration with rogue colonial state Israel expects will lead to anything. This toothlessness prompted furious demands from Sinn Féin TDs (MPs) for the government to actually act to protect Irish citizens:
Galway West TD Mairéad Farrell pointed to the Berlin police’s long and appalling record of violence toward protesters, including Irish citizens:
The violent physical attack by Berlin Police on Kitty O’Brien, where the Irish activist was punched in the face and left covered in blood, is deeply concerning and must be condemned in the strongest terms.
This is not the first attack on Irish citizens protesting for Palestine in Berlin. Previously, I raised in the Dáil the banning of Irish language from a protest in Berlin as well as deportation orders being placed, and then later paused pending decision, on Irish citizens in Berlin who engaged in pro-Palestinian protests.
This worrying trend must be opposed. Freedom of expression and the right to peaceful protest must be protected. The Irish Government must engage with their counterparts in Germany on this, and defend its citizens’ democratic rights.
The violence of German police, particularly in Berlin, toward peaceful protesters against genocide has drawn widespread condemnation and demands for action from human rights groups, which the German government continues to ignore in its support for the white supremacist colony, even to the extent of saying that international law does not apply to Israel.
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Birds of a feather ….
Very brave.
Ireland 1 Germany 0.
If Kitty had been British one wonders if there would there have been a peep out of the UK Lab Govt?
Ireland 1 Britain 0.
If Kitty had been British one wonders if there would there have been a peep out of the UK Lab Govt?
Probably the well worn one of: “Putting their lives on the line every time they put the uniform on”
Because – and be in NO doubt about this – plod were:” in fear for their, and their
fellow thugscolleagues’ existences.”They’re the same the world over.
And they’ll continue to palm us off with the tired bullshit (which is so old it has a crust on) that:
“it’s just a few bad apples”
Except even it if WAS ‘only’ one or two bad apples in a barrel of a thousand, the other 998 are happy to continue to sit in the same barrel, so they’re rotten, too.
If Kitty had been in Britain, it would have been Starmer’s instruction to police forces to practically deny our freedomS of thought and speech and Coopers’ criminalisation of pro-Palestine opinion that would have made her a “non-story” to the MSM.
Starmer is – as the Great Ron Rafferty has many-times said – the most dangerous PM this country could ever have.
Authoritarianism is the fruit of his labour.
#DieSchandeDeutschlands!
Off-topic AGAIN (sorry folks)
…But it’s ‘murrica – AGAIN.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce83r56xwj7o
Jesus wept.
We used to think that the majority of our so-called “betters” were MOSTLY moral. What we have discovered is that few of them would know a moral if it jump up and bit them hard on the backside. EVERY damn day we hear “It’s within the rules.” THEIR rules carefully written by THEM for THEM. You can avoid £40,000 in tax but it’s “within the rules.” You can starve millions but that too is “within the rules.” You can accept bribes, but simply by calling them “office expenses” it’s “within the rules.” A friend of mine had a son with leukaemia, and he was in hospital. One day he received a phone call to tell him to come to the hospital immediately. It was a 30 mile drive from the town where they lived to the city hospital. In the city he was caught doing 40 mph in a 30 zone. Naturally this was NOT within the rules. No emergency, no matter the extremely serious cause, could justify making any allowance for one of the small people, and he received a stiff fine and an endorsement. His son died shortly afterwards, aged 6. Rules for body parts? Well, let’s see where the profits are first before we answer that question….
No sooner had I finished writing that diatribe than I turned to the Guardian website to be met with Bridget Phillipson pontificating about behaviour in schools, attendance and getting children in to school ready to “learn.” The man I mentioned in my post above was actually a teacher-colleague of mine at a very large, very tough northern primary school, serving an estate where all the “undesirables” were transferred from other estates. Naturally we had “white working-class boys” (Bridget Phillipson reckons they have major problems) and these lads had one thing in common. Most of their dads were absent, some absent “at HM pleasure” and some of their dad’s were in prison for murder. Their behaviour at breaks (playtimes) led some to cause trouble. So the man mentioned above, and myself simply got out a football, and every playtime, whether it was our playground duty or not we played football with them. End of bad behaviour, both in the playground and in the classes. Children LOVE school if the schools are run right, and if children are allowed a childhood. AT different schools to the one above, I opened my class 45 minutes before school officially started. Within minutes we had 100% of the children in the classroom … working! playtimes were a hive of activity in all manner of sports. By the time playtime was over, they had used up all their adrenaline and quickly settled down to do some classroom work.
Why the hell is it supposedly so difficult? It’s actually quite easy! But maybe I wasn’t sufficiently “authoritarian?” Give children their childhoods back!