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>>laurex+(OP)
I can imagine animosity from the leadership, for example classifying most journalists as "fake news", contributing to violence from the front line against them.

>>linsom+c3
That, and the journalists are literally there to record evidence of their abuse. Police don't like it too much when you record evidence of them, say, beating a peaceful protester, or forcing a weapon into the hands of someone already pinned to the ground.

>>chadla+04
Where have you seen cops forcing weapons into the hands of someone on the ground? I haven't seen that.

Definitely seen excessive use of force against seemingly peaceful protesters, but context is everything, and a 10 second snippet does not tell the full story of the interactions between that protester and that cop for the 45 minutes leading up to those 10 seconds.

I tend to reserve my judgement on those types of videos, since cops have been also taking a beating in the last few days with bricks, rocks, water bottles, etc... thrown at them off camera or before those clips start, where the convenient "editing" is done to portray the cops as the "bad guys" when often they have spent the last hour being insulted, assaulted and injured before they decide to move in with force on that "peaceful" protester...

>>imperi+N5
So the video of the man being held down and a baton being forcibly placed into his hand, is the one I'm assuming you're calling out.

What possible context would make that okay? In what possible scenario is putting a man's hand on a weapon for the sole purpose of harming him reliant on context?

These are not meant at all to be snarky, these are my very real questions, because I'm confused by your statements.

>>Loughl+67
I didn't say it was OK I said I hadn't seen it personally. It is obviously not OK.