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Cake day: June 18th, 2025

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  • Sorry, but if you managed to do that in 30 seconds, show me as a teaser in the first 60 seconds so I can see whether I am really interested or if the story turns out to be bs like so many these days. When clicking a random video, I care about the topic not the youtuber. I might care about the youtuber later, but get me hooked with content before talking about your channel or yourself.

    That being said: Many here express that they liked the video so it looks like I am the odd one out.


  • That’s fair. Context is of course always relative. In would say context is given if the starts at the first interaction of the person taken in custody with the police. Of course its difficult to find such high quality footage. Not sure if it is worth to point out but many police officers are in favor of bodycams. They cannot use them because they are against the law in Germany. If I find a video with more context, I will get back to you, but I am pretty bad at that.

    That being said: There are definitely police officers out there that love going on demonstrations and smacking people. I personally know one who did this who lost his job as a police officer; not sure whether it was because of that or something else though.






  • Yes, I watched the video. From a police standpoint the amount of force is relatively low. Again, the likely legal justification for the action is that protest made identification impossible which allows them to separate the person from the protest to id him. Him falling was not intended. Injuries caused by resisting are legally speaking no harm done by police. They did not hit him; they could be allowed to if he resisted.

    Anyway, I am trying to explain the legal side, but I am no lawyer. Just interested in law. You can try r/polizei to get a more “official” answer. I don’t think there’s a community for German police on reddit yet.

    Imho: I would have let the man be as long as he doesn’t get closer. It looks like he’s carrying a beer and the trouble is not worth it for “pig”. Police usually has room for not engaging if it helps keep protests civil. I think, this didn’t go well - especially because the officer tried it alone at first.




  • Section 185 Insult: The penalty for insult is imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or a fine and, if the insult is committed publicly, in a meeting, by disseminating content (section 11 (3)) or by means of an assault, imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine.

    While I personally am unsure about the handling of that situation, I think police is legally able to justify the use of force in this situation by saying “Oh, the situation was difficult and we had to act now to ensure that we are able to identify the person.” The woman who tried to “help” the man by intervening is legally also in trouble; if the police had the capacity and the will to act.

    Funfact: Generally, you can call them “cows” in German so “Bulle”, because it is so well established that it no longer counts as an insult but only as colloquial language.











  • ricecake gave a good answer already. In the EU you have 2 years. In the first 12 months the company has to prove that it wasn’t their fault, in the next 12 months you have to prove it was their fault.

    If no such law is in place, nothing protects you from them using cheap materials that break after a few months.

    E.g. I once had a free xbox-replica controller every year because their product was shit and it broke after ~6-9 months. They had to replace it and did so three times. Then I got my money back. Selling * doesn’t work here.