When will the brutal detentions come to an end?
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2015 6:27 amAs the party attempts to reinforce its weakening grip on power, it is increasingly turning to brutal police repression to keep the citizenry in line. We are all familiar with the stories of suppression of protestors and even the open murder of ethnic minorities, but there had been hope that the new president might pursue a more open, more tolerant agenda during his leadership.
As we are increasingly seeing, this has not been the case. The crackdown is intensifying, as the regime seeks to strengthen its grip over the nation. Even minor transgressions, which would not even be illegal in the free world, are met with a terrifying police response. Ethnic minority children as young as 14 are being detained for completely arbitrary reasons and police walk free after brutally murdering an ethnic minority street vendor.
Now, it would seem, the crackdown is spreading to all sections of the population. Witness an incident from the last two days, in which police rush, pin and brutally beat two young men for the crime of crossing the road in the wrong place, before their companion suffers a similar fate for merely questioning the police's actions.
As we are increasingly seeing, this has not been the case. The crackdown is intensifying, as the regime seeks to strengthen its grip over the nation. Even minor transgressions, which would not even be illegal in the free world, are met with a terrifying police response. Ethnic minority children as young as 14 are being detained for completely arbitrary reasons and police walk free after brutally murdering an ethnic minority street vendor.
Now, it would seem, the crackdown is spreading to all sections of the population. Witness an incident from the last two days, in which police rush, pin and brutally beat two young men for the crime of crossing the road in the wrong place, before their companion suffers a similar fate for merely questioning the police's actions.
Austin Police Beat Up Men for Jaywalking in Texas
Two men had just crossed the street when they were rushed by several Austin police officers who shoved them against a wall, punching and kneeing them while telling them to stop resisting.
When asked what crime had the men committed, one of the cops looked up and said, “crossed against the light.”
Yes, that heinous crime of jaywalking, which is taken very serious in Austin as we learned last year when the city made international news after police beat up a jogger for jaywalking.
Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo quickly came to the defense of the arresting officers, saying they may have been rough with the female college student, but at least they didn’t rape her.
This person absolutely took something that was as simple as ‘Austin Police – Stop!’ and decided to do everything you see on that video,” Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said at a press conference Friday, according to Austin NPR station 90.5 KUT.
“And quite frankly she wasn’t charged with resisting. She’s lucky I wasn’t the arresting officer, because I wouldn’t have been as generous. … In other cities there’s cops who are actually committing sexual assaults on duty, so I thank God that this is what passes for a controversy in Austin, Texas,” Acevedo said.
