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> They were “just doing their job,” It's always this one exact excuse. They were simply "following orders". The police don't have their own brains capable of t
by szmarczak 3mo ago
> They were “just doing their job,”
It's always this one exact excuse. They were simply "following orders". The police don't have their own brains capable of thinking.
- vanviegen 3mo agoYou are meaningfully misquoting here ("doing their job" not "following orders", which has a different ring to it, at least for me). Also, apparently they do have brains capable of thinking because: "Eventually, they accepted that we were journalists and that they disagreed with detaining us."
- szmarczak 3mo agoAh yes. Let me detain you for 8 hours for doing what you're legally allowed to do. Sorry for my mistake, it's all paid by the taxpayers anyway.
- vanviegen 3mo agoApparently they were given information by the US embassy that these people were an "active thread". Perhaps they could have figured out that this was bullshit sooner, but I don't think it's the police who are at fault here.
- szmarczak 3mo agoThe wording is so ambiguous, they should've determined what's the threat first. Or else anybody could point at anybody and say "active threat". Most likely they still would've been kicked, but without being detained.