Police in Berlin say 123 officers were injured in clashes with leftist protesters over the redevelopment of a district in the east of the city.
About 3,500 protesters marched through Friedrichshain on Saturday. Some were masked and threw missiles, police said. The protest was the most violent in the past five years, they said.
Tensions have risen since moves began in June to evict squatters in the area. Friedrichshain has undergone rapid gentrification in recent years.
About 1,800 police were deployed at the protest, which began peacefully but escalated into violence. Eighty-six people were arrested, police said.
Squatters are refusing to leave part of a block of flats at 94 Rigaer Strasse. Since June, squads of police have been monitoring the building day and night, with helicopters circling overhead.
Police fired tear gas as shop windows were shattered and police cars damaged.
Many of the neighbours live in housing collectives and sympathise with the squatters, who see themselves as a left-wing alternative to gentrification and rising rents.
Every news on cops getting fucked up brightens my day. Thanks user.
Jose Nguyen
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Matthew Lewis
1 black guy kills 5 and injures 5 more cops some punks get into a riot over stupid shit like "gentrification" showing complete lack of capitalism injuring 123 police
Tyler Thompson
who are you quoting?
Gabriel Clark
poster above me
Elijah Sullivan
that post didn't say shit about micah johnson. maybe he wants all cops dead
Andrew Morris
the other half obviously was directed towards OPs starting threads about their feewings being hurt by Holla Forums not condemning the cop killer
Noah Clark
being a german leftist is fucking dumb tbh
Nathan Butler
what's wrong with being nostalgic ?
Joseph Miller
oh shit no wonder so many cops were injured
Gabriel Roberts
They're rioting because they're being kicked out of a place they've been squatting in for decades, because the owner of the building wants to use it to house refugees.
The irony being most of these cucks have probably been involved in pro-refugee protests.
Enjoy living on the street you faggots.
Julian Martin
source?
Carson Hughes
are you dumb?
Levi Peterson
What he's saying isn't true. The building in question has recently been bought up by some South African investor (who used to be an apartheid advocate). The story about making it into a refugee centre is pure bollocks there has been no commitment made to such a thing.
John Butler
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Jack Hernandez
except refugees were already living with the squatters too
I can't help but feel… Conflicted with anti-gentrification. Yes, higher rent/mortage prices is bad, but the resulting renovation of older areas and younger people bringing new energy to an area can be good. I feel that the negatives are a result of capitalism and blaming people who just want to live in an area that offers them a lot is unfair.
Jaxson Murphy
"gentrification" should be looked at as a side effect of capital creating fictitious capital in the form of an asset bubble
Noah Harris
cops are there tp protect porky too
Carter Bailey
ayy those job creators
David Long
Or you know, you can consider all those poor people being displaced and the same thing happening again 10 years from now when their new neighbourhood gets gentrified
Luis Howard
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Zachary Gray
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Anthony Foster
most likely the owner wants to get paid to house refugees while the squats already does that i don't know that but the same shit happens in Greece.
most of the time gentrification happens like this: capitalists work with the police to bring down the level of entire neighborhoods (police disappears, selling drugs there is almost legalised etc) the prices of houses fall, people sell their appartments cheaply some "innovating" business man appears with a plan suddently "annoying" people are been driven out (anarchist, migrants, drug users) most of the times violently and trendy bars pop up.
John Diaz
I wasn't mad about cops getting blasted I was mad a black nationalist and idpol faggot did it
Hunter Nelson
Nothing tbh. The East got fucked after unification, even now it hasn't fully "recovered". Ostalgie is inevitable when, even though you had a Stasi file and limited consumer goods, at least you got laid more often and had a pension.
