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account42 on July 3, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sig...

In Germany you are not even allowed to insult the police and they do use that to go after people they don't like.

L3viathan on July 3, 2025 | [–]

While true, that is true for everyone, there's no special law about police.

shadowgovt on July 3, 2025 | [–]

Speaking of Germany, can you think of other points in history where the public banded together to subvert police authority and hide their neighbors from the cops?

Why did they do that?

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