The video shows a police officer brutally dragging a protester through a crowd while threatening them with pepper spray. At 0:16 of the video, with his back turned, an unidentified black bloc protester body checks the officer, momentarily knocking him off balance and allowing the victim to flee into the crowd. The officer, after dousing everyone around him with pepper spray, also flees.
The image of the anonymous protester slamming into the guard is one of the few proud moments for the dissident movement over the last eight years. It should be replayed over and over again to remind us of what taking to the streets really means. In the first world, its hard to find backbone in the dissident movement, but this kid didn’t come to St Paul to wag a sign around and feel self-righteous: this kid came to fight back.
-GNN
1 comment:
I wish I could body check cops.
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