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A new one has been added to police violence in Germany. In the city of Wuppertal, in the country’s North Rhine-Westphalia (KRV) state, a woman wearing a headscarf, who left the dentist with her baby, was detained by police on the grounds that she did not he wore a mask.
The police forced the young woman to lie down and put on handcuffs. The baby in the stroller of the woman trying to make her voice heard by screaming began to cry. The police continued to mistreat the woman in front of her baby for minutes, ignoring the baby’s cry.
German citizens react to the incident
A member of the medical staff who worked at the dental clinic where the woman left, told the police that her behavior was wrong and returned to the clinic. A German citizen who was present at the time of the incident told the police that they should not behave in this way against the woman and claimed that their act was a crime.
When the German citizen started recording the incident on his phone, the police got angry and tried to stop it. There was a verbal discussion between the person who took the picture and the police.
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The German citizen who took the picture said: “I know what I am doing. The phone is my phone. You can’t interfere with me. If you want, I can give you my lawyer’s phone number ”, he reacted to the police.
The police removed the handcuffs and released the woman as the reaction of the people around him grew. The woman, who was subjected to police violence, stated that she would complain.
The racist and aggressive attitude of the police in Germany in recent years has been especially disturbing to immigrants living in the country. In an earlier statement on the subject, Michael Mertens of the German Police Union underlined the importance of in-service training to combat racist structures in police organizations.
