{"id":316746,"date":"2017-07-11T04:22:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T03:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/g20-protest-participants-speak-out-against-police-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2017-07-11T04:22:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T03:22:49","slug":"g20-protest-participants-speak-out-against-police-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/g20-protest-participants-speak-out-against-police-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"G20 protest participants speak out against police crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>G20 protest participants speak out against police crackdown<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    our reporters<br \/>\n    <br \/>10 July 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>A major demonstration against the G20 summit took place in Hamburg Saturday as the leaders of the world\u2019s 20 major powers met just a few kilometres away. Around 60,000 people marched from Deichtorplatz near the central train station to Heiliggeistfeld. Following brutal police attacks against peaceful demonstrators, the issue of police violence dominated the demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse and Cosvin reported on how aggressively the police had dealt with youth. The two school students are just 15 years old but have attended several demonstrations over recent days. \u201cYesterday, for example, we were at a peaceful \u2018youth against the G20\u2019 demonstration, which escalated due to the police because they beat us away with batons, claiming we were standing in the way,\u201d Jesse said. In his opinion, the violence was initiated chiefly by the police.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageLeft\" style=\"width:200px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/45ff6268-b015-4db7-8f17-53060b3bfe6H\/image.png?rendition=image480\" srcset=\"\/asset\/45ff6268-b015-4db7-8f17-53060b3bfe6H\/image.png?rendition=image960 2x\" width=\"200\" style=\"width:200px;\" \/><span>Jesse and Cosvin<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Cosvin agreed. At the demonstration, the police suddenly yelled, \u201cOut of the way!\u201d and then cleared the street. \u201cThey didn\u2019t even give the protesters a second to get out of the way, but started striking us immediately. I mean, people were pushing from behind so you can\u2019t retreat, and then they attack.\u201d Cosvin thought it was an unnecessary provocation that the police used water cannon at the youth demonstration. \u201cIt could have been avoided,\u201d the student said. \u201cThis is always portrayed differently on television,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse added that he could barely sleep over recent days due to the constant sound of police helicopters. Although they opposed the police violence and the constant presence of the security forces, they were not surprised by it.<\/p>\n<p>Things were quite different for Gero. The self-employed IT specialist&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/07\/10\/hamb-j10.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 G20 protest participants speak out against police crackdown By our reporters 10 July 2017 A major demonstration against the G20 summit took place in Hamburg Saturday as the leaders of the world\u2019s 20 major powers met just a few kilometres away. Around 60,000 people marched from Deichtorplatz near the central train station to Heiliggeistfeld. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-316746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}