Even if they were illegal it wouldn’t justify the aggressive use of force like that. He was just angry at being insulted and took it out on them. His poor fee fees. :'(
“fucking genocide supporter” and “you’re acting like a fucking Nazi” both would be considered insults and the police office could charge them with that. He could have just charged them for insult and be done with that. It has been clearly recorded so it would have been no problem to prove in court. However punching is excessive force. There was no physical attack on him, so no need to defend himself or some sort of restistance to arrest requiring him to do that.
I’m 95% certain the police and state prosecutor will treat it as self-defense. For “severe” insults you are legally permitted to act in self-defense and I’m sure the police will therefore view the punches as justified.
98% of all police brutality charges are dropped in Germany. This will statistically be one of them.
@TipsyMcGee@dubyakay so insulting someone (police or someone else doesn’t matter) is in fact illegal in Germany and I would say these were insults. BUT this never allows you to attack someone, especially the police here is quite strict with that. But tbh. internal investigations normally do nothing at all.
Yeah, hoping some German can shed some light on whether those two things can be illegal to say to a cop in that context – seems wild to me.
Even if they were illegal it wouldn’t justify the aggressive use of force like that. He was just angry at being insulted and took it out on them. His poor fee fees. :'(
“fucking genocide supporter” and “you’re acting like a fucking Nazi” both would be considered insults and the police office could charge them with that. He could have just charged them for insult and be done with that. It has been clearly recorded so it would have been no problem to prove in court. However punching is excessive force. There was no physical attack on him, so no need to defend himself or some sort of restistance to arrest requiring him to do that.
I’m 95% certain the police and state prosecutor will treat it as self-defense. For “severe” insults you are legally permitted to act in self-defense and I’m sure the police will therefore view the punches as justified.
98% of all police brutality charges are dropped in Germany. This will statistically be one of them.
@TipsyMcGee @dubyakay so insulting someone (police or someone else doesn’t matter) is in fact illegal in Germany and I would say these were insults. BUT this never allows you to attack someone, especially the police here is quite strict with that. But tbh. internal investigations normally do nothing at all.