Comment on Police detonated a ‘stinger’ grenade at a Melbourne protest. Now two activists may sue over their injuries

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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So far the police forces in Finland, Norway and Sweden seems less bad than most.

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  • CompostMaterial@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, who would have guessed that the Vikings would end up being the most civilized culture on the planet.

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    • markz@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Finns weren’t quite vikings

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      • sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I like to call my finnish friend half russian so he turns bright red and starts throwing his arms around like a blind gorilla

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  • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    yall require college degrees for that shit, right?

    imagine not just hiring random highschoolers and giving them guns, wack

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    • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah, it is a decent education that is required to become a police officer here, unfortunately some stupid crap is going on with the police here in Sweden.

      1. The requirements for being a police officer has been reduced in steps, this is due to the status of the police job has been lowered, so fewer people apply.
      2. This is infuriatingly stupid. There has been scandals where gang members have infiltrated the police, a few years back an employee of the police was caught letting unauthorized persons access the police database. Then recently I read that management discovered that their background checks of new hires was in some way illegal, and they decided to stop the background checks, but keep hiring new personel, only without checks…

      Fucking stupid.

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    • MoreZombies@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Sounds too woke can’t do it apparently

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• Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The function of the police is to enact the violence of the state and thus by proxy, capital. Hence, police are by definition always at least some degree of fascist.

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• makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is Melbourne. Australia’s most fascist state. It’s abhorrent.

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• hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  No, they’re the voilet arm of governments. A police force is a sign of a failed state. You’re just outsourcing your bullying and violence.

  This chain of ludicrous events

  www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-29/…/105474690

  www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-19/…/105794888

  www.9news.com.au/…/d1a3613f-8884-40cb-a48a-150b83…

  Senior Constable Christopher Davis, 33, has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and recklessly causing grievous bodily harm over the violent altercation.

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