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purple-is-great · 1 year ago

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Finnish media: a police officer on horseback rode into someone when breaking up a protest so that the person fell down. that was fucked up and probably not allowed

People in the comment section: well it's their own fault for not moving out of the way. the police told the people to move so anything that happened after that was their own fault.

#there were some smart commenters agreeing that yeah that was messed up #and okay i have some complex thoughts about this protest #it was an anti-nazi protest and the organisers told police they'd be at this one square in helsinki #unfortunately the neo-nazi parade had already gotten permission earlier to be there #(yes nazis are allowed to freely hold protests but we have fairly strict rules for how stuff can be banned based on ideology)#(it is messed up but it's not the main point here)#so the organisers were like ''we'll be there earlier and leave before the nazis come''#no fucking way that would be possible without all-out fighting in the street. the job of the police is among other things to keep #these two protests away from each other #so rather than compromising and going somewhere else the organisers decided to just hold the protest there anyway #so the police didn't let them do it #so quite frankly they chose to focus on opposing police rather than the actual fucking nazis #and by doing so took away from the message of ''we don't want nazis on the streets''#because now we're not talking about the nazis or how many people opposed them #we're talking about police #and my social media is filled with people acting like the nazis were allowed there and the anti-nazis not for some arbitrary reason #or due to ideology #and not because of pure bureaucracy: the nazis announced it first

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