Gaza<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cThey have been given carte blanche to do whatever they want and a lot of police officers feel, individually and collectively, very safe in punching somebody with no consequences,\u201d Amjahid told The Irish Times.<\/p>\n
Unlike other European countries, Germany does not have an independent police ombudsman. Instead, complaints are usually handled internally, with few leading to prosecutions.<\/p>\n
German Ambassador to Ireland David Gill said the video is \u201creally awful\u201d.<\/p>\n
Berlin police said no preliminary investigation had been launched against the officer seen in the video, though a probe was under way into \u201cwhether the behaviour was appropriate\u201d.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Brien faces an investigation for insulting and resisting officers, police added.<\/p>\n
German authorities have repeatedly been accused of disproportionately curtailing pro-Palestinian protests, with many demonstrations broken up by a heavy police presence over hollow accusations of anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n
Police said hundreds of officers were deployed to Berlin\u2019s Mitte district on Thursday evening to dissolve the unauthorised gathering held to protest Israel\u2019s targeted killing of Palestinian journalists.<\/p>\n
In total, 94 people were detained after the clashes in central Berlin, and 96 investigations have been launched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kitty O\u2019Brien attended a demonstration in Berlin last week to protest against Israel\u2019s targeted killing of Palestinian journalists.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,678,1167,12,529,2579],"class_list":{"0":"post-393184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-israel-iran-conflict","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-police","15":"tag-protests"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115137471119875940","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Clashes broke out during a pro-Palestinian demonstration at Hackescher Markt in Berlin, Germany on August 28, 2028, when police officers used force against Irish citizen Kitty O\u2019Brien, pictured here falling to the ground [\u0130lkin Eskipehlivan\/Anadolu Agency]<\/p>\n