Post #4109676

On the corporate CSD yesterday, from multiple floats, at several different points of time: "we want to express our gratitude to and thank the police for keeping quiet people safe!" Meanwhile police in huge numbers: harassing protesters on the protest pride march, eventually blocking and dissolving the protest, and then catching everybody queer looking in the vicinity and searching them and writing down their IDs. And then, on the corporate CSD (someone drivers into the crowd, attacks people with a knife, and flees, without being stopped by police, because most of the police were deployed in another district, to harass and intimidate queers on protest pride. (For those not aware of the difference: in Berlin, two events have been going on at the same date in the recent years. One is corporate city-endorsed CSD, opened by the city mayor (currently from queerphobic right CDU party), with floats mostly from corporations such as Axel Springer (owns tabloid Bild that's responsible for most xenophobia and most homophobia published in mainstream, not dissimilar to Daily Mail or Fox News) and some floats from political parties such as aforementioned CDU which is against gay marriage; it is hugely popular, with like 500k to 1m people attending it, most of them cishet "allies" or just those wanting to see a colorful carnival basically. Another is a protest pride, iqpberlin.org , done by queers for queers, and having very heavy police presence, with like 10x more cop cars leading and trailing it, and lots of heavily armed cops all along the demo; and these cops are there not to protect the protesters but to harass the protesters and to search for opportunities to arrest them. The attack was on the first one.)