Victoria Nazis
On this Saturday just past, July 18th 2015, I watched police storm over the top of a Street Medic privacy circle set up by people with arms linked to protect the health and dignity of a person with breathing difficulties. I knew that an ambulance was very long overdue, with no sign of it's arrival, the cops would not allow it. If I took a step to the right I could see a hospital maybe a two minute walk away. For fucks sake.
The injured person had been badly pepper sprayed. There are levels and layers of interaction with this foam spray and all of my friends copped from some to heaps, including myself. I assume the badly injured person appears clearly in one of the many videos that show the first major spraying. Onlookers witnessed the last drops coming out of big canisters. They emptied those things in people's faces point blank. Two days later I'm hearing that people are still suffering with proper skin burns. Just imagine breathing the shit.
When the cops rushed the street medic privacy circle they also sprayed the medics and the injured. So a guy with terrible breathing difficulties was sprayed again. And yes, not too long after this an ambulance arrived. Police now had control of the area and were probably a bit concerned about a person dying at their feet. It's one thing to shake hands with Nazis, which they did, we've seen the photograph. It's one thing to purposely target medics, which they did, we've been told they copped it right in the face. It's another thing to stand over the body of a person who might expire. It's not a good look, not even for fanatically right wing riot cops.
I saw a man smashed to the ground by a small horde of cops for "animal cruelty". This means he put his hands up when horses made to ride over the top of him. Beyond a certain point the cops will attack your for showing an instinct for self preservation.
Would anyone now like me to list all the reasons cops are lovely people? Will society collapse if we criticise people who make no distinction between Nazis and street medics treating injured people? Well, the fact is they did make a distinction: they targeted street medics with pepper spray and they carefully protected Nazis, even marching with them across the steps of Parliament.
At least 100 people were treated by street medics that day and injured people, once treated, joined with the street medics to help out.
“We heard the crowd screaming and yelling as they made a line to protect us from being trampled because we could not move.”
The injured person had been badly pepper sprayed. There are levels and layers of interaction with this foam spray and all of my friends copped from some to heaps, including myself. I assume the badly injured person appears clearly in one of the many videos that show the first major spraying. Onlookers witnessed the last drops coming out of big canisters. They emptied those things in people's faces point blank. Two days later I'm hearing that people are still suffering with proper skin burns. Just imagine breathing the shit.
When the cops rushed the street medic privacy circle they also sprayed the medics and the injured. So a guy with terrible breathing difficulties was sprayed again. And yes, not too long after this an ambulance arrived. Police now had control of the area and were probably a bit concerned about a person dying at their feet. It's one thing to shake hands with Nazis, which they did, we've seen the photograph. It's one thing to purposely target medics, which they did, we've been told they copped it right in the face. It's another thing to stand over the body of a person who might expire. It's not a good look, not even for fanatically right wing riot cops.
I saw a man smashed to the ground by a small horde of cops for "animal cruelty". This means he put his hands up when horses made to ride over the top of him. Beyond a certain point the cops will attack your for showing an instinct for self preservation.
Would anyone now like me to list all the reasons cops are lovely people? Will society collapse if we criticise people who make no distinction between Nazis and street medics treating injured people? Well, the fact is they did make a distinction: they targeted street medics with pepper spray and they carefully protected Nazis, even marching with them across the steps of Parliament.
At least 100 people were treated by street medics that day and injured people, once treated, joined with the street medics to help out.
“We heard the crowd screaming and yelling as they made a line to protect us from being trampled because we could not move.”
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