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स्वतंत्रता दिवस पर पुलिस वालों को ठुमके लगाना पड़ा भारी, वीडियो वायरल होते ही ASI और चार कर्मी सस्पेंड

Viral Video: 15 अगस्त को धूमधाम से भारत में स्वतंत्र दिवस मनाया गया था. सभी भारतीय ने राष्ट्रगान गाते हुए तिरंगा लहराया. देशभर में सभी लोग आजादी के 78वां स्वतंत्र दिवस सेलिब्रेट करते हुए नजर आए. हर कोई स्‍पेशल तरीके से यह खास दिन सेलिब्रेट करते हुए नजर आए. इसी बीच सोशल मीडिया प्लेटफॉर्म एक्स पर एक वीडियो वायरल हो रहा है जिसमें थाने में कई पुलिसकर्मी नाचते हुए नजर आ रहा है. नागपुर तहसील पुलिस…

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On this day:

THE MOTHERSHIP

During the night of August 22-23, 1954, in Vernon, France, businessman Bernard Miserey emerged from his garage after parking his car and noticed a pale glow shining down on the city. Looking skywards, he was shocked to see a colossal, cigar-shaped, luminous, red ship silently suspended low over the Seine River only a quarter mile away. Astonished, Miserey watched as a dome-shaped vertical disk surrounded by a halo of flames detached from the mothership, went into a free fall, and then slowed itself before becoming extremely luminous. It then veered, sank, and vanished in a blink.

Moments later, a second craft detached from the end of the immobile oblong and repeated the performance; a third followed, and then a fourth. After a longer interval, a fifth emerged. The entire process lasted forty-five minutes. The fifth craft flew off lower than the other four, hovering momentarily over the new Seine Bridge and vibrating noticeably before zipping away. Miserey could easily see that the silent saucer had a dark red dome at the center and black edges, and it was surrounded with a burning aura like the others. The final saucer darted off in a different direction from the others. The mothership, approximately a hundred meters (109 yards) in length, fading with each separation, had disappeared.

Arriving at the police station to report the sighting, Miserey discovered that two on-duty policemen had also witnessed the event, as had a chemical engineer from the nearby research laboratory. The engineer was driving home when he spied the spectacular mothership birthing her offspring, and he watched them disappear. Both he and his company thought of them as flying saucers.

Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violins, published by Weiser Books, 2009

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A.5 What are some examples of “Anarchy in Action”?

A.5.2 The Haymarket Martyrs

May 1st is a day of special significance for the labour movement. While it has been hijacked in the past by the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union and elsewhere, the labour movement festival of May Day is a day of world-wide solidarity. A time to remember past struggles and demonstrate our hope for a better future. A day to remember that an injury to one is an injury to all.

The history of Mayday is closely linked with the anarchist movement and the struggles of working people for a better world. Indeed, it originated with the execution of four anarchists in Chicago in 1886 for organising workers in the fight for the eight-hour day. Thus May Day is a product of “anarchy in action” — of the struggle of working people using direct action in labour unions to change the world.

It began in the 1880s in the USA. In 1884, the Federation of Organised Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada (created in 1881, it changed its name in 1886 to the American Federation of Labor) passed a resolution which asserted that “eight hours shall constitute a legal day’s work from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organisations throughout this district that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution.” A call for strikes on May 1st, 1886 was made in support of this demand.

In Chicago the anarchists were the main force in the union movement, and partially as a result of their presence, the unions translated this call into strikes on May 1st. The anarchists thought that the eight hour day could only be won through direct action and solidarity. They considered that struggles for reforms, like the eight hour day, were not enough in themselves. They viewed them as only one battle in an ongoing class war that would only end by social revolution and the creation of a free society. It was with these ideas that they organised and fought.

In Chicago alone, 400 000 workers went out and the threat of strike action ensured that more than 45 000 were granted a shorter working day without striking. On May 3, 1886, police fired into a crowd of pickets at the McCormick Harvester Machine Company, killing at least one striker, seriously wounding five or six others, and injuring an undetermined number. Anarchists called for a mass meeting the next day in Haymarket Square to protest the brutality. According to the Mayor, “nothing had occurred yet, or looked likely to occur to require interference.” However, as the meeting was breaking up a column of 180 police arrived and ordered the meeting to end. At this moment a bomb was thrown into the police ranks, who opened fire on the crowd. How many civilians were wounded or killed by the police was never exactly ascertained, but 7 policemen eventually died (ironically, only one was the victim of the bomb, the rest were a result of the bullets fired by the police [Paul Avrich, The Haymarket Tragedy, p. 208]).

A “reign of terror” swept over Chicago, and the “organised banditti and conscienceless brigands of capital suspended the only papers which would give the side of those whom they crammed into prison cells. They have invaded the homes of everyone who has ever known to have raised a voice or sympathised with those who have aught to say against the present system of robbery and oppression … they have invaded their homes and subjected them and their families to indignities that must be seen to be believed.” [Lucy Parsons, Liberty, Equality & Solidarity, p. 53] Meeting halls, union offices, printing shops and private homes were raided (usually without warrants). Such raids into working-class areas allowed the police to round up all known anarchists and other socialists. Many suspects were beaten up and some bribed. “Make the raids first and look up the law afterwards” was the public statement of J. Grinnell, the States Attorney, when a question was raised about search warrants. [“Editor’s Introduction”, The Autobiographies of the Haymarket Martyrs, p. 7]

Eight anarchists were put on trial for accessory to murder. No pretence was made that any of the accused had carried out or even planned the bomb. The judge ruled that it was not necessary for the state to identify the actual perpetrator or prove that he had acted under the influence of the accused. The state did not try to establish that the defendants had in any way approved or abetted the act. In fact, only three were present at the meeting when the bomb exploded and one of those, Albert Parsons, was accompanied by his wife and fellow anarchist Lucy and their two small children to the event.

The reason why these eight were picked was because of their anarchism and union organising, as made clear by that State’s Attorney when he told the jury that “Law is on trial. Anarchy is on trial. These men have been selected, picked out by the Grand Jury, and indicted because they were leaders. They are no more guilty than the thousands who follow them. Gentlemen of the jury; convict these men, make examples of them, hang them and you save our institutions, our society.” The jury was selected by a special bailiff, nominated by the State’s Attorney and was explicitly chosen to compose of businessmen and a relative of one of the cops killed. The defence was not allowed to present evidence that the special bailiff had publicly claimed “I am managing this case and I know what I am about. These fellows are going to be hanged as certain as death.” [Op. Cit., p. 8] Not surprisingly, the accused were convicted. Seven were sentenced to death, one to 15 years’ imprisonment.

An international campaign resulted in two of the death sentences being commuted to life, but the world wide protest did not stop the US state. Of the remaining five, one (Louis Lingg) cheated the executioner and killed himself on the eve of the execution. The remaining four (Albert Parsons, August Spies, George Engel and Adolph Fischer) were hanged on November 11th 1887. They are known in Labour history as the Haymarket Martyrs. Between 150,000 and 500,000 lined the route taken by the funeral cortege and between 10,000 to 25,000 were estimated to have watched the burial.

In 1889, the American delegation attending the International Socialist congress in Paris proposed that May 1st be adopted as a workers’ holiday. This was to commemorate working class struggle and the “Martyrdom of the Chicago Eight”. Since then Mayday has became a day for international solidarity. In 1893, the new Governor of Illinois made official what the working class in Chicago and across the world knew all along and pardoned the Martyrs because of their obvious innocence and because “the trial was not fair.” To this day, no one knows who threw the bomb — the only definite fact is that it was not any of those who were tried for the act: “Our comrades were not murdered by the state because they had any connection with the bomb-throwing, but because they had been active in organising the wage-slaves of America.” [Lucy Parsons, Op. Cit., p. 142]

The authorities had believed at the time of the trial that such persecution would break the back of the labour movement. As Lucy Parsons, a participant of the events, noted 20 years later, the Haymarket trial “was a class trial — relentless, vindictive, savage and bloody. By that prosecution the capitalists sought to break the great strike for the eight-hour day which as being successfully inaugurated in Chicago, this city being the stormcentre of that great movement; and they also intended, by the savage manner in which they conducted the trial of these men, to frighten the working class back to their long hours of toil and low wages from which they were attempting to emerge. The capitalistic class imagined they could carry out their hellish plot by putting to an ignominious death the most progressive leaders among the working class of that day. In executing their bloody deed of judicial murder they succeeded, but in arresting the mighty onward movement of the class struggle they utterly failed.” [Lucy Parsons, Op. Cit., p. 128] In the words of August Spies when he addressed the court after he had been sentenced to die:

“If you think that by hanging us you can stamp out the labour movement … the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil in misery and want, expect salvation — if this is your opinion, then hang us! Here you will tread on a spark, but there and there, behind you — and in front of you, and everywhere, flames blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out.” [quoted by Paul Avrich, Op. Cit., p. 287]

At the time and in the years to come, this defiance of the state and capitalism was to win thousands to anarchism, particularly in the US itself. Since the Haymarket event, anarchists have celebrated May Day (on the 1st of May — the reformist unions and labour parties moved its marches to the first Sunday of the month). We do so to show our solidarity with other working class people across the world, to celebrate past and present struggles, to show our power and remind the ruling class of their vulnerability. As Nestor Makhno put it:

“That day those American workers attempted, by organising themselves, to give expression to their protest against the iniquitous order of the State and Capital of the propertied … “The workers of Chicago … had gathered to resolve, in common, the problems of their lives and their struggles… “Today too … the toilers … regard the first of May as the occasion of a get-together when they will concern themselves with their own affairs and consider the matter of their emancipation.” [The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays, pp. 59–60]

Anarchists stay true to the origins of May Day and celebrate its birth in the direct action of the oppressed. It is a classic example of anarchist principles of direct action and solidarity, “an historic event of great importance, inasmuch as it was, in the first place, the first time that workers themselves had attempted to get a shorter work day by united, simultaneous action … this strike was the first in the nature of Direct Action on a large scale, the first in America.” [Lucy Parsons, Op. Cit., pp. 139–40] Oppression and exploitation breed resistance and, for anarchists, May Day is an international symbol of that resistance and power — a power expressed in the last words of August Spies, chiselled in stone on the monument to the Haymarket martyrs in Waldheim Cemetery in Chicago:

“The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today.”

To understand why the state and business class were so determined to hang the Chicago Anarchists, it is necessary to realise they were considered the leaders of a massive radical union movement. In 1884, the Chicago Anarchists produced the world’s first daily anarchist newspaper, the Chicagoer Arbeiter-Zeiting. This was written, read, owned and published by the German immigrant working class movement. The combined circulation of this daily plus a weekly (Vorbote) and a Sunday edition (Fackel) more than doubled, from 13,000 per issues in 1880 to 26,980 in 1886. Anarchist weekly papers existed for other ethnic groups as well (one English, one Bohemian and one Scandinavian).

Anarchists were very active in the Central Labour Union (which included the eleven largest unions in the city) and aimed to make it, in the words of Albert Parsons (one of the Martyrs), “the embryonic group of the future ‘free society.’” The anarchists were also part of the International Working People’s Association (also called the “Black International”) which had representatives from 26 cities at its founding convention. The I.W.P.A. soon “made headway among trade unions, especially in the mid-west” and its ideas of “direct action of the rank and file” and of trade unions “serv[ing] as the instrument of the working class for the complete destruction of capitalism and the nucleus for the formation of a new society” became known as the “Chicago Idea” (an idea which later inspired the Industrial Workers of the World which was founded in Chicago in 1905). [“Editor’s Introduction,” The Autobiographies of the Haymarket Martyrs, p. 4]

This idea was expressed in the manifesto issued at the I.W.P.A.‘s Pittsburgh Congress of 1883:

“First — Destruction of the existing class rule, by all means, i.e. by energetic, relentless, revolutionary and international action. “Second — Establishment of a free society based upon co-operative organisation of production. “Third — Free exchange of equivalent products by and between the productive organisations without commerce and profit-mongery. “Fourth — Organisation of education on a secular, scientific and equal basis for both sexes. “Fifth — Equal rights for all without distinction to sex or race. “Sixth — Regulation of all public affairs by free contracts between autonomous (independent) communes and associations, resting on a federalistic basis.” [Op. Cit., p. 42]

In addition to their union organising, the Chicago anarchist movement also organised social societies, picnics, lectures, dances, libraries and a host of other activities. These all helped to forge a distinctly working-class revolutionary culture in the heart of the “American Dream.” The threat to the ruling class and their system was too great to allow it to continue (particularly with memories of the vast uprising of labour in 1877 still fresh. As in 1886, that revolt was also meet by state violence — see Strike! by J. Brecher for details of this strike movement as well as the Haymarket events). Hence the repression, kangaroo court, and the state murder of those the state and capitalist class considered “leaders” of the movement.

For more on the Haymarket Martyrs, their lives and their ideas, The Autobiographies of the Haymarket Martyrs is essential reading. Albert Parsons, the only American born Martyr, produced a book which explained what they stood for called Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Scientific Basis. Historian Paul Avrich’s The Haymarket Tragedy is a useful in depth account of the events.

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The Higher Prosecution Office in Belgrade said it had held hearings of people arrested on 24 December in protests against what the opposition says were rigged elections in the Serbian capital.

The Prosecution is charging them with the crime of seeking a violent change of the constitutional order, beside violent behaviour at a public event. The penalty for these offences can range from six months to five years in prison.

The Prosecution said seven persons had admitted guilt “and concluded an agreement on the recognition of [their] criminal offences with suspended prison sentences and fines which … will be forwarded to the High Court in Belgrade for … confirmation”, the press release published on Wednesday said.

It also said it had proposed additional detention for 11 suspects, so that they do not repeat the same offence in a short period of time.

Out of these 11, the The Higher Court in Belgrade decided to leave four person in custody for up to a maximum of 30 days, five persons should be put under house arrest without electronic supervision, while one person has been be released.

Of the seven suspects admitting guilt, the Prosecution said four had concluded agreements on the recognition of the crime of violent behaviour at a sports event in a public meeting in connection with the crime of “calling for a violent change of the constitutional order”. They had agreed on a suspended prison sentence of six months with probation of two years and a fine of 20,000 dinars (170 euros) and of 10,000 dinars (85 euros).

The Prosecution canceled the detention for two suspects who were released to defend themselves in the further course of the proceedings.

Before the reaction of the Prosecution, President Aleksandar Vucic and Ivica Dacic, chief of the Serbia’s National Security Council, said on December 24 that the protest actions were against the constitutional order.

“This is about breaking into institutions and destroying the constitutional order,” Dacic said after the session of the National Security Council.

Ivan Ninic, lawyer for one of the arrested students, on Tuesday told N1 TV that “there is no evidence that he committed one of the most serious crimes from the group of crimes of the criminal code”, referring to the accusation of “calling for a violent change of the constitutional order”.

Among those charged are some opposition activists.

Miroslav Aleksic, one of the leaders of the opposition coalition “Serbia against violence”, claims the charges are completely false. “We don’t want any violent incursion anywhere, we don’t want power by force. We want the annulment of the stolen elections because it has been proved that the elections were stolen,” he said on Tuesday.

The opposition stressed also that one of the prosecutors in the case against the protesters is Nikola Pantelic, the same prosecutor who was hearing Kosovo Serb leader Milan Radoicic over the September shooting incident in Banjska, northern Kosovo, in which one Kosovo policemen was killed. Radoicic was released 24 hours afterwards.

“This case is like a political party investigation, not a hearing by the prosecution,” Jovan Rajic, another lawyer for the arrested protesters, said on Tuesday.

For ten days now, the “Serbia against violence” coalition along with student movements has staged protests against what they call fraud in the December 17 elections. Another protest was due at 6pm Wednesday in front the Republic Electorate Commission, RIK.

Both domestic and international observers reported numerous irregularities in the elections. The Serbian election watchdog CRTA said the organised “migration” of voters sharply shaped the election result in the capital, Belgrade, where the result was tight, meaning neither the ruling parties nor the opposition can form a clear majority at this point.

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Hamburg airport closed for officials to battle a "hostage situation"

Hamburg airport closed for officials to battle a "hostage situation". On Saturday, Hamburg police announced that they were handling a hostage scenario following a man who drove with a child through a barrier and onto the airport grounds in the city. At approximately eight o'clock in the evening local time following the event, the airport closed for all takeoffs and landings. An armed man drove past a security barrier and onto the tarmac at Hamburg Airport, putting German police in the midst of a hostage scenario. It is believed that the 35-year-old man and the 4-year-old child stayed inside the car, parked beneath an aircraft. The driver, who arrived at the airport on Saturday night at around 20:00 local time (19:00 GMT), communicating with the officers. All flights have been suspended indefinitely and the airport has been shuttered. The ongoing scenario was described as "tense" by a Hamburg police spokeswoman on Sunday, but she also said it was encouraging that the suspect was still in contact. "We need to take into account the fact that he is carrying a gun, as well as the fact that According to a police spokeswoman, the automobile carrying the 35-year-old guy and the 4-year-old boy was parked beneath an aircraft. A considerable number of cops were present in the area late on Saturday. It's probably a custody issue, the police stated. The mother informed the police that she had spoken with her father over the act. Police refused to reaffirm their earlier claims that the man had fired rounds and was armed. According to an airport spokesperson, 27 It had impacted flights. Perhaps he's carrying some explosive devices." According to Sandra Levgruen, the infant is believed to be uninjured, she told the German station ZDF. The man started the problem by pulling his vehicle up to the airport's apron, which is where planes are often parked. The local media reported that he parked beneath a Turkish Airlines aircraft. According to the police, the man hurled burning bottles from the car and fired his gun twice into the air. According to the officials, there is a "custody dispute" involved in this case. The mother reportedly notified emergency services of the four-year-old that she had been removed. According to Ms Levgruen, the man desired to go to Turkey with her since he disagreed with some of the decisions made by the authorities on the custody arrangement.. "He speaks about his life being a heap of shards," she continued. The conversations with him are reportedly taking place in Turkish with the assistance of a translator, but it is unknown how he is related to the nation. Special troops, psychologists, and negotiation-trained policemen are on the scene, according to the police. Hamburg Airport reports that almost half of the scheduled Sunday departures and arrivals have been cancelled, and some flights have been diverted. There will be further cancellations and delays throughout the day, they have warned. ALSO READ: Airlines Cancel Flights to Israel Read the full article

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"PLANS FOR PARADE HALTED BY POLICE," Montreal Star. May 1, 1933. Page 3 & 11. ---- Demonstration by Reds Fails to Materialize On Square ---- ARRESTS MADE ---- Six Men and One Woman Held For Distributing Circulars --- Montreal's "Red" May Day noon-hour "demonstration" in Victoria Square for 1933 proved just as great a success as that of 1932. Neither materialized.

Six men, and one woman were arrested in various parts of the city during the week-end for distributing circulars announcing the "mass meeting" and police precautions effectively scotched any attempt at gathering at the appointed place and time.

POLICE PLANS Shortly after 11:30. 40 uniformed policemen, with four sergeants and a dozen plainclothesmen took up strategic positions in and around Victoria Square and eight mounted men arrived on the scene a few minutes later. Captain Isabelle of central police station was on hand to take charge of the uniformed force and Lieutenant P. E. Caron to look after the officers in mufti. Shortly before noon, Inspector Maranda, adjutant of the police force, arrived to take charge of the whole operation. Eight mounted men patrolled the streets of the square and also Vitre and Craig streets and Beaver Hall Hill for some distance. Deputy Director Charles Barnes, in plain clothes, arrived almost unobserved, a few minutes after noon, and was soon followed by Inspector Lawton of the western district.

But nothing in the way of trouble materialized A few known characters arrived at intervals, took a look at the "reception committee" and either vanished of their own accord or were invited to do so, quite good-naturedly, by the police.

BANNERS SEIZED The Communist squad of detectives under Lieut. Ennis who toured the city, came across several groups of men carrying banners marching towards the centre of the city. The banners were immediately seized and the paraders dispersed without any trouble of any kind. About 15 banners were captured in this way, but no arrests were made.

Spectators gathered here and there, but were rapidly "moved on" and lunch-going Montreal strolled through the square much the same as usual, the only inquiry being "What is it all about?"

DISTRIBUTORS HELD. Recorder Semple dealt with the distributors of circulars this morning. They were: Henry Harman. 42. 1372 St. Antoine street: Jack Holthum, 36, 1376 St. Antoine street: Joe Kebrick, 22, 5275 Jeanne Mance street: Lina Lann, 18, 167 Mount Royal avenue east: Victor Lalcosky, 38, 1131 St. George street: Steve Obchansky, 57, 974 deBullion street, and George Peters, 29, no given address.

Four of the accused, Harman, Holthum, Kebrick and Lina Lann, pleaded not guilty on their appearance before Recorder Semple today and trial was fixed for next Monday. The remaining three pleaded guilty. Lalcosky was given costs or 10 days in jail, while Obchansky was allowed his freedom on suspended sentence. In the case of Peters, sentence was reserved until tomorrow.

DISTRIBUTING CIRCULARS The seven arrests were carried out on Saturday evening and Sunday by police in different sections of the city. All police allege, were illegally distributing circulars. One of these circulars was produced in court.

Gummed on the back so that they could be stuck on automobile wind-shields, fences and buildings, the circular called upon citizens to demonstrate in Victoria Square at noon on May against what was termed slave camps [relief camps], hunger, Fascism and wage cuts, and for rent for the unemployed and higher relief.

[AL: Reading stories by the bourgeois press in which they celebrate the crushing of dissent, the arrest of individuals for thought crime, and denigrate goals and demands that with hindsight are not so radical at all is always a trip. But then that is much of Canadian media in 1933 as much as in 2023]

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Spurious liquor kills 10 in TN - News Today

An illegal alcohol brew has been blamed for the deaths of 10 individuals, three of whom were women, in two districts of Tamilnadu. As a result, seven policemen were suspended on Sunday.While six people have died and more than 33 persons are hospitalised from Marakkanam in Villupuram district, four persons have died near Maduranthakam in Chengelpet district as on Sunday evening.Chief Minister MK…

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Action on negligence in Kanhaiyalal's murder case, 4 police officers were punished

Action on negligence in Kanhaiyalal’s murder case, 4 police officers were punished

Udaipur Murder Case Update: An Additional Superintendent of Police, Udaipur, two circle officers and a SHO have been suspended for negligence in the murder of tailor Kanhaiyalal in Udaipur. Police Headquarters sources said that Circle Officer (East) Jarnail Singh, Circle Officer (West) Jitendra Anchalia and Surajpol SHO Liladhar Malviya were suspended on Friday night for negligence. Earlier on…

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Four policemen suspended for extorting money on highway

Four policemen suspended for extorting money on highway

Four policemen suspended for extorting money on highway Jaipur, Aug 9: Four policemen were suspended in Rajasthan’s Bikaner district for illegally extorting money from truck drivers on the highway, a police official said Tuesday. Traffic police sub-inspector Qasim Ali, constable Lal Singh, Sunil Kumar, Gopaldan, posted in interceptor service near Kasturisar in Lunkaransar have been suspended,…

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बेखौफ वसूली कर रहे थे पुलिसकर्मी, ट्रक क्लीनर बनकर पहुंचे IPS, उनसे ही मांग लिए पैसे, फिर...

बेखौफ वसूली कर रहे थे पुलिसकर्मी, ट्रक क्लीनर बनकर पहुंचे IPS, उनसे ही मांग लिए पैसे, फिर…

वैभव शर्मा/ग्वालियरः नायक फिल्म के एक सीन में मुख्यमंत्री बने अनिल कपूर नकली ड्राइवर बनकर टोल प्लाजा पर पहुंचते हैं. जहां वे टोल प्लाजा पर अवैध वसूली करने वाले अधिकारियों को गिरफ्तार करवाते हैं. ये तो थी रील लाइफ की बात, लेकिन ग्वालियर में रीयल लाइफ में ही कुछ इसी तरह का मामला सामने आया है.  जहां एक आईपीएस अधिकारी ट्रक क्लीनर बनकर चेकिंग प्वाइंट पर पहुंचे तो मौके पर तैनात पुलिसकर्मी ने उनसे…

[beardedmrbean]

A teenager is fighting for his life in a Greek hospital after a policeman shot him in the head as he fled a petrol station, allegedly without paying.

The officer fired two shots at the 16-year-old Roma boy in the second biggest city Thessaloniki.

Protesters took to the streets on Monday, throwing petrol bombs at police.

The shooting has highlighted the recurrent issue of police violence in Greek cities.

Last year an 18-year-old Roma man called Nikos Sampanis was fatally shot in a car chase near Athens and on 6 December 2008 a 15-year-old boy was shot dead in the capital during a police night patrol.

Alexis Grigoropoulos's death in the central district of Exarchia is remembered every year with big protests in Athens and other cities. Several thousand officers were deployed in the capital on Tuesday to prevent trouble.

In the latest shooting, the teenager filled up his vehicle with €20 (£17) of petrol and then left. CCTV released on Tuesday revealed that four policemen were inside the petrol station at the time.

The 16-year-old drove away chased by police on motorbikes. Police said he then turned his vehicle towards them with the aim of ramming into them.

"I fired once in the air and once towards the vehicle. Colleagues' lives were at risk," the 34-year-old officer was quoted as saying. He was later suspended from duty and charged with carrying out the shooting.

News of his shooting prompted protests from the local Roma community outside the hospital in Thessaloniki where the boy had surgery to remove the bullet from his head. Protesters joined friends and relatives at the scene and stones were thrown at police, who responded with stun grenades.

"And what if he didn't pay? Did they have to kill him?" his father told Greek media, adding that the boy had made a mistake and police should have arrested him at home.

Local reports say Roma protesters burned tyres and rubbish bins in the west of the city. The police officer charged with the shooting appeared in court accused of attempted homicide and other offences.

Video from outside the court later went viral showing a man identified as the boy's father being manhandled by police outside the court. The man is seen being thrown to the ground, surrounded by riot police.

According to the Council of Europe, the Roma (Gypsies) are Greece's biggest minority and number some 270,000, mostly living in makeshift accommodation.

As the boy lay in a critical condition in hospital in Thessaloniki, his lawyer told reporters that they did not want him to become another Alexis Grigoropoulos.

Theofilos Alexopoulos told Thess Today that his life was hanging by a thread but they wanted him to survive and for the plight of Roma people to be recognised.

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

So, in Brazilian police brutality news, a military cop in Sao Paulo has been caught on tape stepping on a 51 year old black woman’s neck. “The more I struggled, the more he tightened his boot on my neck”, the woman, who requested anonymity to avoid retaliation by the policemen, said. A widow, with five children and two grandchildren, she is a merchant who makes a living with a small bar. The incident happened while she was at work.

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Someone had parked in front of her bar (which, despite lockdown, was functioning, but only for clients to purchase drinks and leave) and was playing really loud music, which prompted neighbours to call the cops. The woman asked for the owner of the car to turn down the volume and continued attending. Then she saw cops outside beating her friend, kneeing his face while he was down, and asked them to stop. Another cop pointed a gun at a man, who took of his shirt and raised his arms to surrender, and another guy yelled to the cops that he was recording everything with his phone. The first cop pushed the woman against her bar’s grid, punched her three times, and gave her a low kick, and it broke her tibia. At a moment the cop took the other foot off the ground, putting his whole body’s pressure on the foot on the woman’s neck. He then handcuffed her and dragged her over the asphalt, after which he pressed one knee on her ribs and the other on her neck again. She fainted four times, she says, and only woke up at the sidewalk on the other side of the street. She was detained for contempt, bodily injury, and disobedience, after being taken to the hospital. A month later, she had to have surgery on her broken leg. Sao Paulo Governor Joao Doria and the Military Police said the cops have been suspended and are under investigation. The police claimed that they were attacked with an iron rod and that they were defending themselves. The woman denies it. The footage favours her version of the events.

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Cases of police brutality and police abuse in Mexico

Yesterday (June 4th, 2020) in Guadalajara, Mexico, there was a protest derived from the Geroge Floyd’s case. Giovanni López was arrested on May 4th by the police in Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos, according to the family, for not wearing a mask (obliged in the state due to the pandemic), but according to the authorities, he wasn’t arrested for not wearing a mask, the police reports state “administrative detention of an aggressive person”. The video of his arrest shows at least 5 policemen arresting him violently, according to his family, he was sitting doing nothing. When his family went to pick him up he was dead. He died from a severe blow to the head while being under police custody. After a month, the family states there has not been any investigation.

On March 29th, 2020, a man was killed by the police of Tijuana by stepping on his neck for a few minutes after he was arrested for throwing rocks at some cars. The video of the event was posted on June 2nd on Twitter and after it, the policemen have been suspended.

On August 3rd, 2019, in Azcapotzalco a minor was raped by four policemen in the police car while they were doing a morning patrol.

On January 11th, 2016, José Benítez de la O (24yo), Mario Arturo Orozco Sánchez (27yo), Alfredo González Díaz (25yo), Bernardo Benítez Arróniz (25yo) and Susana (16yo) were arrested by the police of the state of Veracuz and were handed over to the organized crime who dissapeard them.

In 2014, 43 students of the Escuela Normal de Ayotzinapa were kidnapped by the police while protesting and disappeared. To this day, they haven't appeared and are presumed dead.

There are many other cases and these are just a few. Police brutality and abuse needs to end.

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Kosovo Serb police officials who resigned from the police over the weekend as part of a mass resignation alongside MPs, mayors, judicial officials, have continued resigning, with officers handing over their weapons and cuffs on Monday.

Over 20 Kosovo Serb police officials who resigned over the weekend handed over their weapons and cuffs in bags on Monday morning at the regional police station in the Serb-majority municipality of North Mitrovica.

Serbs resigned from state institutions in four Serb-majority northern municipalities of Kosovo on Saturday, claiming that EU-mediated agreements between Serbia and Kosovo in Brussels are being breached.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Sunday evening dismissed claims that Serbs from North Kosovo left institutions “on the orders of someone from Belgrade” as “senseless”. He said this decision was not easy for them, but that Serbia would “take care of them”.

“The state of Serbia says, and we say that, we will take care of them, that’s a new 50 or 60 million euros for us, we will do it all”, Vucic told the Hit Tvit TV show on Pink Television.

“It’s not easy [to leave] but no one wanted to stay without being with their people, people feel it at every step,” he added.

Vucic said that, “if the Americans are smart enough and fair, they will tell KFOR and EULEX to do police work in the north, and I think this can contribute to the preservation of peace”.

“If they think the []Kosovo] Albanians will come to organize life in the north, and they have no right to do so, neither according to the Brussels Agreement nor according to the will of the people, I am afraid that will lead to a disaster,” Vucic said.

The resignations came after a meeting in the town of Zvecan organised by the Belgrade-backed Kosovo Serb party Srpska Lista.

The move came two days after the regional director of the Kosovo Police for the Serb-majority north, Nenad Djuric, was suspended for calling for resistance to government orders.

During the meeting on Saturday, Kosovo Serb police commanders took off their uniforms. The meeting was followed by a peaceful protest in North Mitrovica on Sunday and further resignations, including by the border police, which continued on Monday as well.

Kosovo PM Albin Kurti on Sunday said that Serbia’s attempt to destabilize Kosovo “will be unsuccessful because our state is strong by being democratic and aligned with the EU, USA, and NATO”.

“It is possible that they do not want to engage constructively in [EU-mediated] dialogue and have now chosen this other path. But, I believe they are listened to by many different illegal structures rather than the citizens of our country of Serbian ethnicity,” Kurti continued.

As of Monday, work continued normally at the border crossing between Kosovo and Serbia, Jarinje despite the resignations. On Sunday, around 26 Kosovo Serbs in the Kosovo border police in Jarinje handed over their weapons and other police equipment.

BIRN reports that special border police as well as two vehicles of the EU rule-of-law mission in Kosovo, EULEX, are present to maintain rule of law. NATO peacekeeping forces KFOR also patrol in the area.

Moreover, the public relations directorate of the Kosovo parliament announced on Monday that the 10 MPs from Srpska Lista, also handed in their resignations. According to the Constitution, 10 seats are designated for the Serbian community.

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Hamburg airport closed for officials to battle a "hostage situation"

Hamburg airport closed for officials to battle a "hostage situation". On Saturday, Hamburg police announced that they were handling a hostage scenario following a man who drove with a child through a barrier and onto the airport grounds in the city. At approximately eight o'clock in the evening local time following the event, the airport closed for all takeoffs and landings. An armed man drove past a security barrier and onto the tarmac at Hamburg Airport, putting German police in the midst of a hostage scenario. It is believed that the 35-year-old man and the 4-year-old child stayed inside the car, parked beneath an aircraft. The driver, who arrived at the airport on Saturday night at around 20:00 local time (19:00 GMT), communicating with the officers. All flights have been suspended indefinitely and the airport has been shuttered. The ongoing scenario was described as "tense" by a Hamburg police spokeswoman on Sunday, but she also said it was encouraging that the suspect was still in contact. "We need to take into account the fact that he is carrying a gun, as well as the fact that According to a police spokeswoman, the automobile carrying the 35-year-old guy and the 4-year-old boy was parked beneath an aircraft. A considerable number of cops were present in the area late on Saturday. It's probably a custody issue, the police stated. The mother informed the police that she had spoken with her father over the act. Police refused to reaffirm their earlier claims that the man had fired rounds and was armed. According to an airport spokesperson, 27 It had impacted flights. Perhaps he's carrying some explosive devices." According to Sandra Levgruen, the infant is believed to be uninjured, she told the German station ZDF. The man started the problem by pulling his vehicle up to the airport's apron, which is where planes are often parked. The local media reported that he parked beneath a Turkish Airlines aircraft. According to the police, the man hurled burning bottles from the car and fired his gun twice into the air. According to the officials, there is a "custody dispute" involved in this case. The mother reportedly notified emergency services of the four-year-old that she had been removed. According to Ms Levgruen, the man desired to go to Turkey with her since he disagreed with some of the decisions made by the authorities on the custody arrangement.. "He speaks about his life being a heap of shards," she continued. The conversations with him are reportedly taking place in Turkish with the assistance of a translator, but it is unknown how he is related to the nation. Special troops, psychologists, and negotiation-trained policemen are on the scene, according to the police. Hamburg Airport reports that almost half of the scheduled Sunday departures and arrivals have been cancelled, and some flights have been diverted. There will be further cancellations and delays throughout the day, they have warned. ALSO READ: Airlines Cancel Flights to Israel Read the full article

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“The first demonstration by the unemployed in Prince George occurred on the afternoon of 11 June 1931 in a George Street store. The action was prompted by the decision of the City of Prince George to suspend direct relief payments because of municipal financial difficulties. Approximately 175 unemployed men and one police constable were present at the meeting and the premises were crowded to capacity. The men wanted immediate aid for the needy and relief work. Delegations were appointed to wait on Dr. R. W. Alward, the local Conservative member of the legislature, and George Milburn, the government agent. Alward came to the meeting and announced that the highway relief project would begin shordy. Milburn promised to forward the men's demand for immediate action on relief payments to officials in Victoria. The meeting was orderly, but the police inspector noted that "the unemployment situation here is reaching the stage where anything may be expected to happen." However, the beginning of the highway extension and the resumption of municipal relief payments diffused organization among the unemployed for the duration of 1931.

In the spring of 1932 discontent in the highway construction camps along the East Line manifested itself. The men went on strike in April, demanding an increase in the scale of pay. They stated that they wished to work but that the remuneration of only free room and board and $7.50 a month for pocket money was insufficient. Extra policemen were brought into the area, but the men remained in the camps and acted peaceably as they awaited the response of the Department of Public Works. The strike was soon settled and the men returned to work. The terms of the settlement were a thirty-hour work week, $7.50 a month in wages, and the provision of work clothes by the government. By early July the promised clothes had not been provided and the number of hours of work had increased to forty-four per week with no raise in wages. The men went on strike again, this time demanding $4.00 for a seven-hour work day and the guarantee of three days' work per week. The Department of Public Works refused to meet these demands and closed the camps. The men decided to evacuate the camps, and beginning on 5 July 1932 the strikers rode the trains into Prince George. 

The infusion of strikers into the unemployed population in Prince George invigorated the local branch of the National Unemployed Workers Association (NUWA). The activists from the East Line camps took a leading role in the NUWA, and on 11 July 1932 a deputation appeared before Prince George City Council, delivering a communication that set out the demands of the organization. They wanted the city to guarantee single men three eight-hour days of work per week at $4.00 per day and married men four days per week at the same wage with further allowances for dependents. They also demanded no discrimination against workers because of race, colour, creed or political conviction, as well as free housing, light, fuel and clothing for the unemployed. The city council, strapped for financial resources, viewed the requests as remarkable and impossible to meet.

In late July 1932 the NUWA began to take its struggle to the streets of Prince George. On the morning of the 28th of July the striking camp workers sent a committee to visit the government agent requesting that he communicate with officials in Victoria regarding the government position on the strike. Victoria replied that there was no change in the conditions offered the camp workers, and upon hearing this the men decided to take direct action. At 11 o'clock in the morning about a hundred men entered the grocery store of C. C. Reid and asked him to supply them with food. They told Reid that the provisions were to be charged to the provincial government. Reid attempted to negotiate with the men and a number of police constables arrived. Finally the men left the store, but only after Reid had donated fifteen dollars' worth of food to the unemployed men. That evening the NUWA held a meeting, and Inspector Spiller and Sergeant McKenzie of the Provincial Police spoke to the crowd, warning the men that their action in demanding food was unlawful and must not occur again. The leaders of the NUWA replied that they did not advise the breaking of man-made laws but that their advice was to obey the laws of the stomach.

On the morning of 3 August 1932 the provincial government presented an ultimatum to the striking camp workers. The strikers were informed that the twenty-five cent per day sustenance allowance they were receiving in Prince George was suspended, and that to receive room and board they would have to go to non-work relief camps. The camps were those that had been previously used for the highway construction crews, and the strikers did not want to return to these isolated camps to while away the time. The NUWA and the strikers promised stronger action in dealing with the government: 

"To date we have been dealing with the government on a more or less fair basis, but from now on it is going to be Direct Action." 

That afternoon the police patrolled the city streets to prevent demonstrations, and authorities feared disturbances. About ninety men were involved in the refusal to go to the relief camps, but according to Inspector Spiller the number of "malcontents" in Prince George numbered about 250.

It was over a week before the NUWA acted. On the morning of 12 August 1932 sixty men arrived at the police office and demanded to be arrested as vagrants. Inspector Spiller told the men that they had the option of moving to the non-work relief camps and as such could not be arrested as vagrants. In the afternoon twenty-six of the men went into the government agent's office and demanded food and shelter. On being refused, the men stated that the building belonged to them, as they were the people, and proceeded to sit down and occupy the office. The men were then arrested and charged with unlawful assembly.

Three days later a preliminary hearing was held and the twenty-six men appeared before George Milburn, the government agent and acting stipendiary magistrate. Before any evidence was presented, Milburn, who had witnessed much of the affair, commented that there was little doubt that the men would be committed to trial. NUWA leaders who had been involved in the incident — Henry Vorberg, John Ward, Leo McCaffery, Frank Stager and Frederick Newton — skilfully cross-examined the witnesses on behalf of the accused and argued that no weapons had been involved, that the men were weak and hungry and as such incapable of physical violence, and that while in the government agent's office the men had caused no trouble. The men were committed for trial, and bail was set at $400 for each of the accused. Bail was raised only for Fred Newton, and the other twenty-five men remained in prison. A defence fund was organized, and donations came in from throughout the district, a logging camp at Sinclair Mills making an especially large contribution.

The men were tried on the 22nd day of September, and the case was dismissed on the grounds that there was no fear that the peace was about to be broken. On the following morning the men and their sympathizers celebrated by gathering in front of the government office and singing Red Songs. Then they marched to the Prince George Grill and demanded to be fed : the bill was to be sent to Prime Minister R. B. Bennett. The police arrived and forty-three men were arrested, including the twenty-six who had just been released. At the trial the accused were acquitted on the same grounds as the previous case involving the NUWA.

With the release of the most active NUWA members from jail and that success of the NUWA tactics in embarrassing the government and judicial system, organizational work among the unemployed was intensified and prosecuted with increased vigour. The events of late September 1932 buoyed the spirits of NUWA organizers, and plans for disturbances and demonstrations were discussed, pamphlets and radical working-class newspapers were disseminated, and organizational work was revived.

Provincial authorities were not idle, and in October an official of the Canadian Immigration Department was brought to Prince George to investigate the possibility of deporting some of the more militant NUWA members. The immigration official spent two days in the city and interviewed eight men: Frank Stager, John Ward, Frederick Newton, Carl Anderson, Arthur Negard, Ragner Olson, Victor Hagen and Nels Hedlund. All of the men except Hedlund had been arrested in the sit-in at the government agent's office on 12 August 1932. Police Inspector Spiller was confident that the deportations would be executed, and he only regretted that the federal immigration officer had been able to interview so few potentially deportable men during his short stay.

During October the government was successful in removing the unemployed activists from Prince George to non-work relief camps along the East Line. With no relief payments forthcoming in Prince George, the men were forced to go to the camps in order to receive food and accommodation for the corning winter. The NUWA was angry at this turn of events and promised that 

"these unfortunate victims who are, through starvation, forced to go and bury themselves for the next six months, are not going to tolerate for one moment, such vile conditions as existed in those so-called camps last winter." 

If the authorities thought that moving the single unemployed from Prince George to isolated East Line camps would ensure harmony, they were sorely mistaken.”

- Gordon Hak, “The Communists and the Unemployed in the Prince George District, 1930-1935,” BC Studies. No. 68, Winter 1985-86. p. 48-52.