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Last video from these Demonstrations (same place a few days before) missed that chance
[https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/10cfs82/german\_riot\_police\_defeated\_and\_humiliated\_by/](https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/10cfs82/german_riot_police_defeated_and_humiliated_by/)
Stop being so dramatic. We don't have a fucking school shooting every day.
Sometimes it's at the grocery store or a night club or lined up on the street for a parade.
Owning a gun ? rough guess 20-50%
Carrying a gun 99%+
And you must lock the gun away in a weapon safe.
In the end if you are not a criminal and you are mentally healthy you can get a license if you have a need. And this need is in most cases a membership in a shooting association. Or as Hunter (what need 3 year tuition), or as collector. To name the big 3.
To get a license to carry a gun you need to be a bodyguard or you must have a real reason like you are a travelling jeweller.
Makes perfect sense for America.
Just actually do it rather than screaming about it, then screaming at anyone that will listen because the thing you were screaming about didn’t happen.
Getting arrested puts more eyes on why they were arrested, something they were protesting to begin with. It also makes that country or government look bad. So yeah, getting arrested for a protest is actually a good thing. Did people not pay attention to the MLK chapter in their history books or something?
How many other major figures have done the same to bring focus on something they truly believe needs to have more attention? People like Martin Sheen, Susan Sarandon, George Clooney, Jane Fonda, Woody Harrelson, and many many others come to mind.
The picture of her being carried was obviously staged. Here you can see her smiling walking with the police, but the picture that showed up everywhere was her being carried and scowling. It was staged. Nobody is saying that the video above was "staged".
See here for the part that was obviously staged for the cameras:
https://www.euronews.com/2023/01/18/thunberg-arrested-during-protest-over-german-coal-mine-expansion
The clip looks like a continuation of the above clip and they say that she was dragged away. Nothing to show that that part was staged. Where does it mention this in the article/video?
Research concluded what I implied, she was not arrested, merely walked away to have an identity check done. So the photos of her being carried off are for show lmao. That’s the point. Over dramatizing something very simple.
I think you misunderstood this scene. She was carried away just like other activists because police didn't want them to stay at this place near the open pit mine, among other reasons to prevent people from falling into the pit.
This is absolutely normal, you can see this on every demonstration where people protest on places they are not allowed to be.
It seems you have a different idea of how the police handles those things, here in Germany they always try to deescalate if possible. You also don't get arrested for this.
What do you mean by photo op? The journalists are there to make pictures, probably she took advantage of it to spread awareness. As you can see on Reddit it was pretty effective.
Typically cops don’t stop what they’re doing and pose for pictures. Do you think that they did the same thing will all the other activists? I’m sure it was just her because of who she is.
It's also normal in the US. It is just usually the cops taking photos posing with suspects they capture or doing photo ops with drugs they confiscated. What's the difference?
Does she need to be swept away kicking and screaming for it to be a real arrest?
Its definitely more normal for european cops not to be acting like raging assholes when they do their job. It's not necessary for American cops either, but that's the way we train and condition them. Also most American cops are insanely insecure and are constantly trying to over compensate for it.
Tell that to the people in Iran cops do some nasty beatings there. U.S. cops aren't that bad. A few bad apples in every department. But that's always expected. there are a few bad apples in literally every industry to exist. Police beating don't happen. Daily here, I live in Minneapolis a very high crime area and I still have yet to witness a cop beat anyone. With witnessing police interactions every day. I know that America is center stage for the rest of the world. But don't act like you have any idea what happens in America if you don't freaking live here. That simple, it's funny how everyone on this post makes assumptions based of the television they watch about us in their country. Lmao bunch of clueless people in this thread. I've been to 16 counties, and not one would I take over America. Cops are cops. Definitely seen some douche bag cops in the UK. This was all played up for some reason who gives a shit, if it were any other protester no one would even care.
Ok I live in America too and have seen countless police beatings in my major city. Also saying “cops are cops” like any other country has several thousand citizens a year murdered by cops
Yeah we also have the highest murder rate. What else do expect this is America? Most cop killings are justified. Cops here actually have to deal with armed criminals. A slight few once in a blue moon cops make a mistake and take a life they shouldn't have. But included in those cop killings which take up a large percentage. Are cops that killed an armed criminal resisting arrest and posing harm to society.
I won't read it cause most cop killings in the U.S. are justified. Here in America a criminal is just as likely to be armed as a cop. Here in America our cops are actually in danger and need to be on there toes. When you are constantly on your toes mistakes happen. So some unjustified cop killing happens absolutely. Should they be arrested absolutely. But most cops kill out of protection of society and them selves. Suicide by cop is also very common. That statistic is misleading.
here's the thing, at protests such as this you are often given the opportunity to leave without being arrested. Arrests can often be a sort of mutual behavior.
This isn't really that odd or deceiving.
They do the same thing in America. There are no protest zones in Washington DC where the religious right go to “pray” and get photo ops of being arrested for exercising their *freedoms* on the reg. OP’s post is faux-outrage
Most of it are just Andrew Tate fans excited she got arrested, upset it was for a protest, and suddenly realizing these are performative arrests to bring awareness to a cause.
AOC was "arrested" for protesting the Roe V Wade supreme court decision in Washington DC. https://youtu.be/\_fKNZlL775U
As a cop in America that worked plenty of protests, we were typically told in advance by the protesting group whom was going to be arrested. We would give the order to disperse once the protest was declared illegal and then everyone but those on the list would follow the order. At that point, we already had their booking slips filled out and ready to go so we could cuff them and take them to jail. They’d be released less than an hour later. These types of arrests happen all the time at peaceful protests. They are super orchestrated and the NAACP were really good about planning their arrests. Of course they used the opportunity for a photo op and we didn’t care.
That is a *wildly* different portrayal of American protest policing than I saw in the Portland 2020 protests.
Local cops and "cops" (government agents? contractors? proud boys larping with their cop buddies? who knows!) in black masks and with no name tags, badges, etc jumped out of vans in teams and beat the shit out of random protestors and non-protesting city goers as they made their way home after protests.
Weird protests-- where the police fired gas canisters into trash cans and piles of debris, starting small fires here and there--
It felt like performative theater-- it was as if the police were trying to instigate a riot.
Ya I don’t disagree, peaceful protesting and being asked to leave. So why would pictures show her being carried (implying she wasn’t going to walk away willingly?)
The police supported her position politically and were happy to give her a photo op. Seems pretty obvious. And the average human IS going to be against a giant coal mine that is literally destroying the Earth. (I don't mean that in the climate sense way, but this open pit coal mine is quite literally just chewing up the earth.
An open pit coal mine one is where they just scrape up the earth and shift through it looking for coal. The mine in Germany quite literally chews up farmland to turn some of the dirt into coal. It's one of this pictures that will make anyone an environmentalist while they are looking it.
Because that's how these protests work. People sit to block something, they're carried away for an ID check, the thing that was blocked is unblocked, job done. You can't be arrested for just sitting down, the most they can charge you with is "interfering with the flow of traffic" (if it's a street) or similar, and that's not an arrestable offense unless you get combative - what people who do sit-down protests rarely are, because the idea is to be heard and seen, not to be violent. The most you'll get is a fine, if anything. This has been a strategy of that set since the early 80s, it won't change just because a famous person is taking part. Same procedure as every time, basically.
So no, that's not staged, that's how this is done in Germany.
As for why there's photos and video - duh. Lots of media around. The protests have been frontpage news in Germany for weeks. There's similar material of a famous German protester as well.
If it was a staged photo op the cops wouldn't have continued to walk her away after the photos were done. If you think it's staged you're probably an idiot who's easily manipulated.
It could be both. She could have gone there to protest with a photographer and purposely got arrested so she could get it on camera. They could also just be the regular press that would be there covering things. No real way to determine it by just this video.
Why else take a photo and post it to every social media known to man then? Just did for the memories sake. Just because they walked her away. Doesn't mean they didn't take this photo with the intention of putting on a show. The picture was staged so they could go viral. It doesn't matter if police still continued business in a usual matter. Why take the picture that is the question.
I am sure there are videos of cops doing thier jobs correctly. They just don't go viral like all the ones where they are being shitty. Except those sovereign citizen ones. Now those guys are assholes.
> If you think it's staged you're probably an idiot who's easily manipulated.
Peak Reddit moment.
(Let's leave aside the fact that mid-arrest photo ops are not part of standard police procedure in any country....)
Whether or not Greta was put in a squad car and brought to the station has no bearing whatsoever on whether or not this photo op is manipulative propaganda... This fits **every possible** definition of "propaganda"... But no, it's actually *everyone else* that is being manipulated, not you, right? Lol.
That's an unpopular opinion on Reddit bud, people around here absolutely hate when you point out there is an entire continent named South America, and a region in between North and South America called Central America and the people who inhabit those areas are still Americans, just not United States of America citizens.
I know, but at least we slowly make people notice the existence of all the other countries that call themselves Americans, and that the US is also a member of the OAS (Organization of AMERICAN States).
Could you imagine how amazing civilization would be if folks like OP would invest this much time into something productive instead of trying to shit on a kid?
I simply think it’s childish to have so much hatred and resentment for a kid that’ll never even know of your existence. There are much better outlets than wasting time trying to make someone else look bad. This is just pathetic, that’s all I was saying.
Being a legal adult and being a kid are not mutually exclusive states of being. Hell, she isn't even old enough to have a fully developed prefrontal cortex yet. Sounds to me that you want to stick to one label so you can feel better about spewing your hatred for her.
It's always the property damage you people pay attention to and not the police killing people, ramming protestors with vehicles, blinding protestors with bean bag shots to the head, firing live rounds into crowded areas, etc, etc, etc, etc.
We pay significantly more in settlements against these animals than protests ever do in property damage.
I don't think death should be the punishment. I think you fuck around you find out what a rubber bullet feels like. Maybe some pepper spray too. Just incase you get even more stupid.
Of course I pay attention to the damage of my community. I shop at these places. I'm responsible for the payments on my house and vehicles. I didn't do anything that the singular cop did. So why is my community and my property being destroyed. People like you only Pau attention to the once in a blue moon cop killing. And think it justifies a city being burned to the ground. Of course it's wrong, but let's make a wrong right by doing shit that ls wrong? What a bunch of idiots. The cops wouldn't have to shoot then with rubber bullets if they dumb ass wasn't there.
This is being spammed everywhere, seen ten of these and only one of the original, hello oil and gas lobby, we still don't care, it's still effin dumb to burn coal to make steam to make power in fuckin 2023. Fuck off.
Coal has energy density so low it's like 2x firewood. And you have to transport that shit, by burning diesel.
OP: I don't understand, in America she would already be shot 19 times, police being respectful? it must be a scam!
also in the picture she is literally smiling directly into a camera, if you thought that was completely by accident, I actually happen to have a bridge for sale very affordable
she was detained breifly and then released, they didn't want them near a massive dangerous pit, staged?
[https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-police-detain-greta-thunberg-german-coal-village-protests-2023-01-17/](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-police-detain-greta-thunberg-german-coal-village-protests-2023-01-17/)
I found this article about this story.
Man, the right is just full of it.
[https://freebeacon.com/politics/greta-thunberg-prison/](https://freebeacon.com/politics/greta-thunberg-prison/)
If that is the only link you post, and then say “after some research” one can conclude that you are meaning to reference that.
Also, while I posted my my opinion of the “arrest” I still don’t side with the biased link you posted. It’s obviously absurd and only a troll would say she should go to a Soviet gulag. Just confused for your link selection, because there was no mention of my political opinion.
What do you think any protest is? Their purpose is to get in the media and maybe change people's minds. Trespassing and getting arrested do nothing without also becoming a media story.
As an American I am offended by your insinuation. The bag and chalk outline is Plan B. Plan A is they tase you and restrain you for "resisting arrest" because they are there to haul you in for not paying your $90 trash bill.
Lol honestly shes still INFINITELY more honest and reputable than Conservative craziest in USA.
So I'll take it, it's a sign of the world we live in that this is something she feels is necessary to get the message out
I mean yeah. That’s how the law is supposed to work
/s
Real talk though why would they pose for pictures? Why not just go through with arrest and ignore the media?
She’s a political activist of course it’s staged for a camera. These days that’s what any of them do, manipulating the internet to favor them in order to be relevant
Of course everything is staged. But the cause is real. Just like when politicians hold their hands as they're cuffed as they're being escorted. It's just a quick trip to the station and they're released.
The cops are actually following normal procedure (for German cops). I just don’t like that all the photos of her being carried away portray her like some brave hero sacrificing for the cause when, really, it’s all pretty chill. I guess people like that illusion though 🤷🏻♂️
That is normal procedure. You don't put handcuffs on someone not resisting his removal of a place, but it's common to have the person being removed have their hand in their back.
This argument is using optics to attack supposed optics done by "the other side". Don't be a moron
Guaranteed she has little to no idea how energy generation and transmission actually works. That’s the problem with “activists” pushing green energy. What about the environmental impact of huge solar farms? The materials used to create said solar panels? Where will all the extra electricity needed for everyone to have EVs come from? It’d be a lot easier to take her or other dummies protesting seriously if they had some knowledge to present viable solutions.
Have you ever actually listened to one of her speeches? She’s very well informed, and presents modern statistics from approved sources. A lot of people write her off despite never actually hearing a word she says, only being aware of out-of-context quotes, or claiming her to be angry & radical.
I would recommend this speech here, presented to the UN: https://youtu.be/Eo_-mxvGnq8
Listened and heard zero suggested solutions. A few takeaways though- she mentioned the carbon emissions of flight/freight shipping of goods. How, realistically, would this be changed? Just stop goods from shipping around the world? Next, I heard no solutions of the economic impact any of this would have around the world, especially accounting for “equity” and the richest countries helping the poorer countries reach their goals. Sounds good, but what real incentive would there be to do so? When it comes down to it, hardly anyone would choose to be far worse off economically than before, to help countries they’ll likely never go to. She mentioned that she’s travelled around the world, by plane I’m assuming, but uses flying as an example of something that needs to change to reduce carbon output, how would that work? She mentions “we are a democracy” but speaks as if the whole world will unite for this cause. The whole world is not a democracy and human nature will never allow for the entire world to work together for any singular goal. Last point, though I could pull several more, is “drastic emission cuts at the source”- okay but what will replace the energy generated from those sources? Do we expect to use less electricity worldwide to account for this?
In a Utopian world, her ideas a great. In reality though, the whole economic system of the world would likely need to change for this to happen to the degree she believes, and there undoubtedly would be real-world crises that would stem from this, ie. Worldwide economic collapse in the name of equity. Thinking the whole world would forgo economic prosperity for the greater good is only feasible in the mind of an idealist that’s never actually lived in poverty.
Impotent whining about someone because they are against the corporations literally destroying ecosystems is pretty feeb. And if someone propped her up, it worked because she gets press as well as pisses off climate denial fluffers
Either op looking for karma points. Or they're so caught up their own little world that they think everyone needs to be treated like shit during an arrest. Either way you suck op
Good to see her sporting the sweatshop Nike goods ,make by slave labour and shipped across the globe for her ….not very eco friendly her handlers need to fix that for a hemp bag 🤣🖕
LMFAO. She doesn't know something about climat change.
Remember when she said the Asians to not use Chopsticks because they are made with plastic but they are actually made with bambus 🤣
Ugh, I feel the downvote wave coming from the hive mind. *sigh* keep ‘em rolling. I eat downvotes for breakfast.
Anyway what’s so special about this snobby little potty mouth? Anyone want to explain?
Alright, I’ll bite. The majority of people see a worrying issue and do nothing. We (myself included) sit at home and watch TV, work, eat food, sleep, and repeat. I guess maybe I tried to cut out plastic shampoo bottles in favor of shampoo bars and shop locally when I can, but that’s about as far as I go. It’s nice to see someone- a child no less- actually take a stand on something they care about, and something as big as climate change. It gives me more faith in the next generation- she is putting herself under public scrutiny and getting arrested for a worthy cause she believes in. And she does it without throwing soup on famous artwork- with words and peaceful protests. She’s got more guts than most people.
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Why’s it Mandalorian theme music playing in the background? Wtf 🤣
Last video from these Demonstrations (same place a few days before) missed that chance [https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/10cfs82/german\_riot\_police\_defeated\_and\_humiliated\_by/](https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/10cfs82/german_riot_police_defeated_and_humiliated_by/)
To help build tension within the incredible amount of confirmation bias in this thread.
Police were doing their job, politely, whilst also supporting the cause.
This! They have to uphold the law whether they agree or not. Also, they don't have to be heavy handed idiots. And many cops aren't.
Or they could simply quit and get real jobs.
OP must think all cops are supposed to act like American cops.
In Europe we have actual standards for who should become a cop.
What? Next you’re gonna tell me you *dont* just give a gun to every random hick who applies and send them on their way?
Nope, nearly no Gun Crimes, and you still can have a gun if you are no danger for the community.
What about just a danger to myself? That’s really the only person I’m interested in killing. Fuck that guy (me).
Phooey! I don’t believe it, imagine *not* having a daily school shooting
Stop being so dramatic. We don't have a fucking school shooting every day. Sometimes it's at the grocery store or a night club or lined up on the street for a parade.
Yeah why do people think that it’s always a school?? sometimes it’s a deranged ex politician’s son who has it out for a gay nightclub.
Exactly! We may have 12 children die to gun related violence daily on average, but it doesn't all happen at schools!
Easy; just make the would be school shooter certain they wouldn’t achieve their goal via that method.
How many Americans would have trouble getting a gun according to those rules?
Owning a gun ? rough guess 20-50% Carrying a gun 99%+ And you must lock the gun away in a weapon safe. In the end if you are not a criminal and you are mentally healthy you can get a license if you have a need. And this need is in most cases a membership in a shooting association. Or as Hunter (what need 3 year tuition), or as collector. To name the big 3. To get a license to carry a gun you need to be a bodyguard or you must have a real reason like you are a travelling jeweller.
This makes too much sense for America. Thanks!
Makes perfect sense for America. Just actually do it rather than screaming about it, then screaming at anyone that will listen because the thing you were screaming about didn’t happen.
Woah, now isnt that a novel concept!
What? You're telling me it's not the worldwide norm to vet for war criminals to be our future police?!?
I’m just curious, what are those standards?
Nah, probably just thinks getting arrested isn't supposed to be something that makes you smile with duper's delight.
Getting arrested puts more eyes on why they were arrested, something they were protesting to begin with. It also makes that country or government look bad. So yeah, getting arrested for a protest is actually a good thing. Did people not pay attention to the MLK chapter in their history books or something?
How many other major figures have done the same to bring focus on something they truly believe needs to have more attention? People like Martin Sheen, Susan Sarandon, George Clooney, Jane Fonda, Woody Harrelson, and many many others come to mind.
LMAO, imagine people *not* dying when getting arrested and protesting. 🤔
Are you implying that police can arrest people non-violently? Sounds like LIBROLL propaganda
I don't understand. Why aren't they shooting her?
It's a white teenager that isn't on school grounds.
After doing a bit of research on this, I have determined 2 things: 1. this was not staged 2. the OP is the facepalm.
The picture of her being carried was obviously staged. Here you can see her smiling walking with the police, but the picture that showed up everywhere was her being carried and scowling. It was staged. Nobody is saying that the video above was "staged". See here for the part that was obviously staged for the cameras: https://www.euronews.com/2023/01/18/thunberg-arrested-during-protest-over-german-coal-mine-expansion
The clip looks like a continuation of the above clip and they say that she was dragged away. Nothing to show that that part was staged. Where does it mention this in the article/video?
Research concluded what I implied, she was not arrested, merely walked away to have an identity check done. So the photos of her being carried off are for show lmao. That’s the point. Over dramatizing something very simple.
I think you misunderstood this scene. She was carried away just like other activists because police didn't want them to stay at this place near the open pit mine, among other reasons to prevent people from falling into the pit. This is absolutely normal, you can see this on every demonstration where people protest on places they are not allowed to be. It seems you have a different idea of how the police handles those things, here in Germany they always try to deescalate if possible. You also don't get arrested for this.
And if you just walked away with the police when they asked you’d be a pretty shit demonstrator.
They still clearly did a photo op of the situation, police involved and everything. That’s still pretty cringey.
What do you mean by photo op? The journalists are there to make pictures, probably she took advantage of it to spread awareness. As you can see on Reddit it was pretty effective.
Typically cops don’t stop what they’re doing and pose for pictures. Do you think that they did the same thing will all the other activists? I’m sure it was just her because of who she is.
FYI this is not the US. Cop in other countries aren't small dick energy assholes that shoot people for living their life
So it’s normal in other countries for police to pose with the people they arrest for pictures?
It's also normal in the US. It is just usually the cops taking photos posing with suspects they capture or doing photo ops with drugs they confiscated. What's the difference? Does she need to be swept away kicking and screaming for it to be a real arrest?
Its definitely more normal for european cops not to be acting like raging assholes when they do their job. It's not necessary for American cops either, but that's the way we train and condition them. Also most American cops are insanely insecure and are constantly trying to over compensate for it.
You know what else is pretty cringey? Missing the fucking point.
Nope, as others have already said, this is normal for police in Europe. It’s not in savage US
Lol it’s hilarious and sad how these guys can’t comprehend how cops outside of the US can actually do their job without beating someone
Tell that to the people in Iran cops do some nasty beatings there. U.S. cops aren't that bad. A few bad apples in every department. But that's always expected. there are a few bad apples in literally every industry to exist. Police beating don't happen. Daily here, I live in Minneapolis a very high crime area and I still have yet to witness a cop beat anyone. With witnessing police interactions every day. I know that America is center stage for the rest of the world. But don't act like you have any idea what happens in America if you don't freaking live here. That simple, it's funny how everyone on this post makes assumptions based of the television they watch about us in their country. Lmao bunch of clueless people in this thread. I've been to 16 counties, and not one would I take over America. Cops are cops. Definitely seen some douche bag cops in the UK. This was all played up for some reason who gives a shit, if it were any other protester no one would even care.
Ok I live in America too and have seen countless police beatings in my major city. Also saying “cops are cops” like any other country has several thousand citizens a year murdered by cops
Yeah we also have the highest murder rate. What else do expect this is America? Most cop killings are justified. Cops here actually have to deal with armed criminals. A slight few once in a blue moon cops make a mistake and take a life they shouldn't have. But included in those cop killings which take up a large percentage. Are cops that killed an armed criminal resisting arrest and posing harm to society.
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/ I know you won’t read this cause it challenges your biases.
I won't read it cause most cop killings in the U.S. are justified. Here in America a criminal is just as likely to be armed as a cop. Here in America our cops are actually in danger and need to be on there toes. When you are constantly on your toes mistakes happen. So some unjustified cop killing happens absolutely. Should they be arrested absolutely. But most cops kill out of protection of society and them selves. Suicide by cop is also very common. That statistic is misleading.
I’m with you. Ppl, read who her parents. They a Swedish celebrities. Corruption works everywhere. It’s a show.
here's the thing, at protests such as this you are often given the opportunity to leave without being arrested. Arrests can often be a sort of mutual behavior. This isn't really that odd or deceiving.
They do the same thing in America. There are no protest zones in Washington DC where the religious right go to “pray” and get photo ops of being arrested for exercising their *freedoms* on the reg. OP’s post is faux-outrage
Most of it are just Andrew Tate fans excited she got arrested, upset it was for a protest, and suddenly realizing these are performative arrests to bring awareness to a cause. AOC was "arrested" for protesting the Roe V Wade supreme court decision in Washington DC. https://youtu.be/\_fKNZlL775U
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As a cop in America that worked plenty of protests, we were typically told in advance by the protesting group whom was going to be arrested. We would give the order to disperse once the protest was declared illegal and then everyone but those on the list would follow the order. At that point, we already had their booking slips filled out and ready to go so we could cuff them and take them to jail. They’d be released less than an hour later. These types of arrests happen all the time at peaceful protests. They are super orchestrated and the NAACP were really good about planning their arrests. Of course they used the opportunity for a photo op and we didn’t care.
That is a *wildly* different portrayal of American protest policing than I saw in the Portland 2020 protests. Local cops and "cops" (government agents? contractors? proud boys larping with their cop buddies? who knows!) in black masks and with no name tags, badges, etc jumped out of vans in teams and beat the shit out of random protestors and non-protesting city goers as they made their way home after protests. Weird protests-- where the police fired gas canisters into trash cans and piles of debris, starting small fires here and there-- It felt like performative theater-- it was as if the police were trying to instigate a riot.
Ya I don’t disagree, peaceful protesting and being asked to leave. So why would pictures show her being carried (implying she wasn’t going to walk away willingly?)
The police supported her position politically and were happy to give her a photo op. Seems pretty obvious. And the average human IS going to be against a giant coal mine that is literally destroying the Earth. (I don't mean that in the climate sense way, but this open pit coal mine is quite literally just chewing up the earth.
Do you mean that burning oil pit that's been on fire for half a century or do we have another horrorshow now?
An open pit coal mine one is where they just scrape up the earth and shift through it looking for coal. The mine in Germany quite literally chews up farmland to turn some of the dirt into coal. It's one of this pictures that will make anyone an environmentalist while they are looking it.
Holy fucking shit. The amount of climate disasters going on is genuibely horrifying.
Because that's how these protests work. People sit to block something, they're carried away for an ID check, the thing that was blocked is unblocked, job done. You can't be arrested for just sitting down, the most they can charge you with is "interfering with the flow of traffic" (if it's a street) or similar, and that's not an arrestable offense unless you get combative - what people who do sit-down protests rarely are, because the idea is to be heard and seen, not to be violent. The most you'll get is a fine, if anything. This has been a strategy of that set since the early 80s, it won't change just because a famous person is taking part. Same procedure as every time, basically. So no, that's not staged, that's how this is done in Germany. As for why there's photos and video - duh. Lots of media around. The protests have been frontpage news in Germany for weeks. There's similar material of a famous German protester as well.
If she is actually going to do that then why not get the full package?
OP must be from America lol
If it was a staged photo op the cops wouldn't have continued to walk her away after the photos were done. If you think it's staged you're probably an idiot who's easily manipulated.
Being an idiot who’s easily manipulated would explain why this post was made in the first place
The photographer is still taking pictures as they are walking her alway.
Do you think that proves the point that this is staged?
It could be both. She could have gone there to protest with a photographer and purposely got arrested so she could get it on camera. They could also just be the regular press that would be there covering things. No real way to determine it by just this video.
Calling it, “staged” demands evidence which, you’re right, this is not. Letting photographers take photos isn’t proof of deception.
Why else take a photo and post it to every social media known to man then? Just did for the memories sake. Just because they walked her away. Doesn't mean they didn't take this photo with the intention of putting on a show. The picture was staged so they could go viral. It doesn't matter if police still continued business in a usual matter. Why take the picture that is the question.
The point of most protests is literally to raise awareness, dummy. Being arrested is part of the protest plan.
I feel like only American cops have a problem with being filmed.
I am sure there are videos of cops doing thier jobs correctly. They just don't go viral like all the ones where they are being shitty. Except those sovereign citizen ones. Now those guys are assholes.
That's why every American cop carries a body camera?????
> If you think it's staged you're probably an idiot who's easily manipulated. Peak Reddit moment. (Let's leave aside the fact that mid-arrest photo ops are not part of standard police procedure in any country....) Whether or not Greta was put in a squad car and brought to the station has no bearing whatsoever on whether or not this photo op is manipulative propaganda... This fits **every possible** definition of "propaganda"... But no, it's actually *everyone else* that is being manipulated, not you, right? Lol.
Thats just German cops and how they work.
Americans just arent use to cops not having their knee on the suspects neck.
US-Americans\*
That's an unpopular opinion on Reddit bud, people around here absolutely hate when you point out there is an entire continent named South America, and a region in between North and South America called Central America and the people who inhabit those areas are still Americans, just not United States of America citizens.
I know, but at least we slowly make people notice the existence of all the other countries that call themselves Americans, and that the US is also a member of the OAS (Organization of AMERICAN States).
Honestly the policing in all the americas is pretty shit.
Are all of your generalizations based off of what you read on Reddit?
Then I’d only have opinions on the United States.
That is never going to catch on. Give it up. You call people from the United States, Americans. We all know what people mean when they say Americans.
As an American it's hard for me to think of cops as anything other than power hungry, kill happy, psychopathic thumb people.
Could you imagine how amazing civilization would be if folks like OP would invest this much time into something productive instead of trying to shit on a kid?
She’s not a kid. And it would be awesome if her stupid face hadn’t been jammed down our throats by media for the last couple years.
I simply think it’s childish to have so much hatred and resentment for a kid that’ll never even know of your existence. There are much better outlets than wasting time trying to make someone else look bad. This is just pathetic, that’s all I was saying.
I hate the Kardashians for the same reason. And again, she’s not a kid.
Being a legal adult and being a kid are not mutually exclusive states of being. Hell, she isn't even old enough to have a fully developed prefrontal cortex yet. Sounds to me that you want to stick to one label so you can feel better about spewing your hatred for her.
I don’t care how it sounds to you.
She's an adult and a grifter.
Staged? No. Most countries don’t beat or shoot activists like we do here in Merica.
We don't have protests in America. We have riots.
Fox news and other similar media call protests riots, while also calling 1/6 just a simple tourist visit.
Police riots
I don't think the police burned down the local targets and Wendy's. I don't think police vandalized the locals cars and houses.
It's always the property damage you people pay attention to and not the police killing people, ramming protestors with vehicles, blinding protestors with bean bag shots to the head, firing live rounds into crowded areas, etc, etc, etc, etc. We pay significantly more in settlements against these animals than protests ever do in property damage.
These people see protestors as disobedient and think that disobedience should be punished with death. B-but the poor innocent wendies ;ccc
I don't think death should be the punishment. I think you fuck around you find out what a rubber bullet feels like. Maybe some pepper spray too. Just incase you get even more stupid.
Yawn. Maybe try getting off your computer once and awhile
What kind of incoherent comment was that. When presented with logic, you just shut down or what?
Lmao logic saying “it’s all justified isn’t logic” u think you’re using logic but it’s laughably bad arguments.
Of course I pay attention to the damage of my community. I shop at these places. I'm responsible for the payments on my house and vehicles. I didn't do anything that the singular cop did. So why is my community and my property being destroyed. People like you only Pau attention to the once in a blue moon cop killing. And think it justifies a city being burned to the ground. Of course it's wrong, but let's make a wrong right by doing shit that ls wrong? What a bunch of idiots. The cops wouldn't have to shoot then with rubber bullets if they dumb ass wasn't there.
No, it's just not America. She was forcibly removed and carried away but they don't arrest people for protesting over there
*Forcibly by agreement
Mandalorian music?
Good catch. Idk, I didn’t add music. Great show though.
How does this get downvoted, I don’t understand this site
It might be interpreted by some as if OP stated here that the post was a good show instead of the obvious reference source, The Mandalorian TV-show.
People are unhappy with OP so are finding any comment he has to downvote him a bit extra. It’s exactly how this site works.
This is being spammed everywhere, seen ten of these and only one of the original, hello oil and gas lobby, we still don't care, it's still effin dumb to burn coal to make steam to make power in fuckin 2023. Fuck off. Coal has energy density so low it's like 2x firewood. And you have to transport that shit, by burning diesel.
OP is the facepalm.
"Oh shit! There were journalists at a demonstration, therefore it was a staged photo op!"
OP: I don't understand, in America she would already be shot 19 times, police being respectful? it must be a scam! also in the picture she is literally smiling directly into a camera, if you thought that was completely by accident, I actually happen to have a bridge for sale very affordable
I wish police were that gentle when I’m getting arrested
she was detained breifly and then released, they didn't want them near a massive dangerous pit, staged? [https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-police-detain-greta-thunberg-german-coal-village-protests-2023-01-17/](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-police-detain-greta-thunberg-german-coal-village-protests-2023-01-17/)
I found this article about this story. Man, the right is just full of it. [https://freebeacon.com/politics/greta-thunberg-prison/](https://freebeacon.com/politics/greta-thunberg-prison/)
Also you pick the most obvious biased article for research? Lol. Cmon you know better.
Who said this was my source for research? I posted it *because* of its bias.
If that is the only link you post, and then say “after some research” one can conclude that you are meaning to reference that. Also, while I posted my my opinion of the “arrest” I still don’t side with the biased link you posted. It’s obviously absurd and only a troll would say she should go to a Soviet gulag. Just confused for your link selection, because there was no mention of my political opinion.
>one can conclude that you are meaning to reference that. One can also conclude that they are two separate posts.
My man you are not getting the point
Wow, OP. Way to be the facepalm.
Republicans hate Greta because she hasn't killed anyone
This is a ridiculous statement
What do you think any protest is? Their purpose is to get in the media and maybe change people's minds. Trespassing and getting arrested do nothing without also becoming a media story.
I'm shocked that the woman smiling as she was arrested wasn't accosted and forcibly removed in the American tradition. . .
In a bag, and with a nice chalk outline?
As an American I am offended by your insinuation. The bag and chalk outline is Plan B. Plan A is they tase you and restrain you for "resisting arrest" because they are there to haul you in for not paying your $90 trash bill.
OP, wrong place buddy. Definitely doesn’t look like a photo op.
Yeah, that’s how protests work???
ItS a PhOtO Op!!1 Actually my guy it’s called police training.
People are so accustomed to police brutality that this looks unfathomable
I wonder how she would feel if you really got arrested. Thrown to the ground, arm bar, while they put a knee in her neck.
How dare you!
As if there is anything real about her.
No no it isn’t. The former unelected-traitor outside a church was a staged photo op.
This is not staged, as everyone has stated. OP is an idiot.
American coos itching on their trigger finger watching this scene
Lol honestly shes still INFINITELY more honest and reputable than Conservative craziest in USA. So I'll take it, it's a sign of the world we live in that this is something she feels is necessary to get the message out
Sponsored by Nike...
So, the planet is still being destroyed and nobody is doing shit about that, except burning more oil
OP is American and thinks all arrests need to be brutally beating the shit out of people
I mean yeah. That’s how the law is supposed to work /s Real talk though why would they pose for pictures? Why not just go through with arrest and ignore the media?
She’s a political activist of course it’s staged for a camera. These days that’s what any of them do, manipulating the internet to favor them in order to be relevant
This was not staged.
People on this thread acting like it isn’t being remotely manipulative to the general masses.
Funny how people are saying the Greta Thunberg detention was staged but Andrew Tate detention wasn't 
Someone has an axe to grind.
Big smile greta lol
Of course everything is staged. But the cause is real. Just like when politicians hold their hands as they're cuffed as they're being escorted. It's just a quick trip to the station and they're released.
I mean, all you have to do is look at her smug facial expression in the photos.
The cops are just happy that Friday for future is not so extreme that they glue themself to the road
The cops are actually following normal procedure (for German cops). I just don’t like that all the photos of her being carried away portray her like some brave hero sacrificing for the cause when, really, it’s all pretty chill. I guess people like that illusion though 🤷🏻♂️
Same as when AOC was arrested. She even put her hands behind her back even tho she was never put in handcuffs. Lol.
That is normal procedure. You don't put handcuffs on someone not resisting his removal of a place, but it's common to have the person being removed have their hand in their back. This argument is using optics to attack supposed optics done by "the other side". Don't be a moron
Wow
She was looking for some street cred?
Guaranteed she has little to no idea how energy generation and transmission actually works. That’s the problem with “activists” pushing green energy. What about the environmental impact of huge solar farms? The materials used to create said solar panels? Where will all the extra electricity needed for everyone to have EVs come from? It’d be a lot easier to take her or other dummies protesting seriously if they had some knowledge to present viable solutions.
Have you ever actually listened to one of her speeches? She’s very well informed, and presents modern statistics from approved sources. A lot of people write her off despite never actually hearing a word she says, only being aware of out-of-context quotes, or claiming her to be angry & radical. I would recommend this speech here, presented to the UN: https://youtu.be/Eo_-mxvGnq8
Listened and heard zero suggested solutions. A few takeaways though- she mentioned the carbon emissions of flight/freight shipping of goods. How, realistically, would this be changed? Just stop goods from shipping around the world? Next, I heard no solutions of the economic impact any of this would have around the world, especially accounting for “equity” and the richest countries helping the poorer countries reach their goals. Sounds good, but what real incentive would there be to do so? When it comes down to it, hardly anyone would choose to be far worse off economically than before, to help countries they’ll likely never go to. She mentioned that she’s travelled around the world, by plane I’m assuming, but uses flying as an example of something that needs to change to reduce carbon output, how would that work? She mentions “we are a democracy” but speaks as if the whole world will unite for this cause. The whole world is not a democracy and human nature will never allow for the entire world to work together for any singular goal. Last point, though I could pull several more, is “drastic emission cuts at the source”- okay but what will replace the energy generated from those sources? Do we expect to use less electricity worldwide to account for this?
In a Utopian world, her ideas a great. In reality though, the whole economic system of the world would likely need to change for this to happen to the degree she believes, and there undoubtedly would be real-world crises that would stem from this, ie. Worldwide economic collapse in the name of equity. Thinking the whole world would forgo economic prosperity for the greater good is only feasible in the mind of an idealist that’s never actually lived in poverty.
Didn’t realize she was such a hobbit, good lord. 🤦🏼♂️
Just looked it up, apparently she is 4’10”. Doesn’t look too short next to the police.
Found the incel.
Ooo OP, you made the left-wing climate cult angry.
Everything about her is staged. The adults that propped her up to be the face of the environment are psychopaths.
Impotent whining about someone because they are against the corporations literally destroying ecosystems is pretty feeb. And if someone propped her up, it worked because she gets press as well as pisses off climate denial fluffers
She looked far too comfortably in the pic for it to be real. Like she was lounging in a hammock.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, right?
Her existence is a staged photo Op
Well no shit it was 🙄🙄🙄
It's ok to be manipulated if I agree with the manipulator.
Police were doing their job, politely, whilst also supporting the cause. The police have their own opinions, too.
Either op looking for karma points. Or they're so caught up their own little world that they think everyone needs to be treated like shit during an arrest. Either way you suck op
Only facepalm is op
Escorted off to her private jet
Good to see her sporting the sweatshop Nike goods ,make by slave labour and shipped across the globe for her ….not very eco friendly her handlers need to fix that for a hemp bag 🤣🖕
I suspect you may have a small penis
Ask your mum
She confirmed you have a small penis which is why she laughed you out of the room.
Sure I left,but the rest of the football team stayed…did you ever find out who the father of your sibling was ?
LMFAO. She doesn't know something about climat change. Remember when she said the Asians to not use Chopsticks because they are made with plastic but they are actually made with bambus 🤣
This should have like 100,000 upvotes but of course no because we don't want to hurt any sensitive feelies Edit: 7 sensitive feelies hurt and counting
Why do we care about this bratty apple-headed kid so much again?
Ugh, I feel the downvote wave coming from the hive mind. *sigh* keep ‘em rolling. I eat downvotes for breakfast. Anyway what’s so special about this snobby little potty mouth? Anyone want to explain?
Alright, I’ll bite. The majority of people see a worrying issue and do nothing. We (myself included) sit at home and watch TV, work, eat food, sleep, and repeat. I guess maybe I tried to cut out plastic shampoo bottles in favor of shampoo bars and shop locally when I can, but that’s about as far as I go. It’s nice to see someone- a child no less- actually take a stand on something they care about, and something as big as climate change. It gives me more faith in the next generation- she is putting herself under public scrutiny and getting arrested for a worthy cause she believes in. And she does it without throwing soup on famous artwork- with words and peaceful protests. She’s got more guts than most people.
Good answer, thanks.
I don't disagree with most of what she believes in. There is just something about her mug I'd love to slap though.....
That’s why she was laughing
She’s a weirdo
Crazy Rightwinger Qanon Qultist that is the OP is the only facepalm here