Police truck runs over demonstrators protesting US troops in Philippines today

Cheerful Spring · 19-10-2016 01:32PM #1

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NSFW
The video below has some distressing stuff in it. It shows what is in the thread title.

Imagine our police force reacted like this to protests!

jimgoose · 19-10-2016 01:41PM

I'm having difficulty imagining being the sort of head-case that would actually do that.

19-10-2016 01:41PM

Grim viewing. But hardly surprising in a country where they've pretty much said anyone can shoot anyone on the basis that they think they take drugs, and the leader has invoked Hitler.

Winterlong · 19-10-2016 01:42PM

The Philippines is turning in to a nut job of a country.

Joshua J · 19-10-2016 01:45PM

That's grim lads no one needs to see that sh!t.

Edit: Put a NSFW at least

Ted111 · 19-10-2016 02:07PM

Straight out murder.

State murdering its own citizens.

Dave_The_Sheep · 19-10-2016 02:10PM

How "fair" were the recent elections that that nutjob won and got into power from?

Genuine question without implication (in case one is jumped to).

Grayson · 19-10-2016 02:16PM

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

How "fair" were the recent elections that that nutjob won and got into power from?

Genuine question without implication (in case one is jumped to).

I don't remember hearing anything about voting irregularities.

dotsman · 19-10-2016 02:28PM

Am I watching the same video as everybody else?

All I am seeing is a huge mob trying to attack a police officer. In a bid to survive, he drives his van away. Nobody gets seriously hurt, nobody dies, nobody gets hurt that isn't 100% responsible for the result. The video then shows "protesters" in armored vehicles driving at police to break the police lines. The only difference is that the police move out of the way, whereas in the first clip, the "protesters" seem to do everything they can to be run over.

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

Imagine our police force reacted like this to protests!

One can only dream.

eeguy · 19-10-2016 02:31PM

Thought the worst would happen to the person in green. Nearly gets her head run over, manages to get up fairly quickly though.

Bunny Colvin · 19-10-2016 02:32PM

Joshua J wrote: »

That's grim lads no one needs to see that sh!t.

Edit: Put a NSFW at least

There's plenty of people who want to know what's going on in the world, no matter how ugly it is.

Cienciano · 19-10-2016 02:41PM

dotsman wrote: »

Am I watching the same video as everybody else?

All I am seeing is a huge mob trying to attack a police officer. In a bid to survive, he drives his van away. Nobody gets seriously hurt, nobody dies, nobody gets hurt that isn't 100% responsible for the result. The video then shows "protesters" in armored vehicles driving at police to break the police lines. The only difference is that the police move out of the way, whereas in the first clip, the "protesters" seem to do everything they can to be run over.

You're definitely watching a different video. A mob weren't attacking a police officer and he didn't drive away to survive. And people did get seriously hurt.

HensVassal · 19-10-2016 03:30PM

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

MOD NOTE
NSFW
The video below has some distressing stuff in it. It shows what is in the thread title.

Imagine our police force reacted like this to protests!

I don't get it.

The police work for Duterte, correct?
Duterte thinks Obama is a "son of a whore" and want US troops out and US bases closed. He basically wants the country to be independent of US occupation and interference.

So if people are protesting US troops (which is Duterte's position as well) then why would Duterte's police attack the protesters and run them over like this?

Something's not right.

The US want Duterte "regime-changed" because he is showing resistance to US bullying and wants to strengthen ties with China.

I'll be called a tinfoiler for this but I smell a deliberate false flag to foment revolution against Duterte. It's the tried and tested tactic used in Ukraine, in Brazil, Syria, Venezuela, color revolutions, rinse repeat.

HensVassal · 19-10-2016 03:33PM

dotsman wrote: »

Am I watching the same video as everybody else?

All I am seeing is a huge mob trying to attack a police officer. In a bid to survive, he drives his van away. Nobody gets seriously hurt, nobody dies, nobody gets hurt that isn't 100% responsible for the result. The video then shows "protesters" in armored vehicles driving at police to break the police lines. The only difference is that the police move out of the way, whereas in the first clip, the "protesters" seem to do everything they can to be run over.

One can only dream.

You think the Gardai should be allowed to drive vehicles at and over protesters, killing and maiming them?

lertsnim · 19-10-2016 03:33PM

I thought that woman at 20 seconds was dead for sure. I hope the bollocks driving that will be punished. Absolute bastard.

HensVassal · 19-10-2016 03:36PM

lertsnim wrote: »

I thought that woman at 20 seconds was dead for sure. I hope the bollocks driving that will be punished. Absolute bastard.

The question is.....was he acting on orders or is he just a nut?

GreenFolder2 · 19-10-2016 03:36PM

That's insane.

Sadly the Philippines seems to be getting stranger and stranger.

It's worrying - a good friend of mine from the Philippines moved home a few years ago. It really puts it into perspective when you actually know someone living there.

lertsnim · 19-10-2016 03:36PM

HensVassal wrote: »

The question is.....was he acting on orders or is he just a nut?

That's the thing. The way that country is at the moment it wouldn't surprise me if he was ordered to do it.

Gatling · 19-10-2016 03:36PM

They conspiracy theories are already out lol .

Crazy stuff on the video but we've seen worse across the world ,
Hardly breaking news been the pinoy president ordering kill squads against his own population

HensVassal · 19-10-2016 03:40PM

lertsnim wrote: »

That's the thing. The way that country is at the moment it wouldn't surprise me if he was ordered to do it.

Well that's what confuses me. The president wants US troops out of the Philipines. These protesters want the same. Why would the police attack them?

19-10-2016 04:07PM

HensVassal wrote: »

Well that's what confuses me. The president wants US troops out of the Philipines. These protesters want the same. Why would the police attack them?

Probably simply just because they are left wing protesters

ohnonotgmail · 19-10-2016 04:13PM

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

How "fair" were the recent elections that that nutjob won and got into power from?

Genuine question without implication (in case one is jumped to).

Grayson wrote: »

I don't remember hearing anything about voting irregularities.

The issue was that all of the major candidates opposed to him split the vote so he was elected with something like 40% of the vote.

dotsman · 19-10-2016 04:38PM

Cienciano wrote: »

You're definitely watching a different video. A mob weren't attacking a police officer and he didn't drive away to survive. And people did get seriously hurt.

HensVassal wrote: »

You think the Gardai should be allowed to drive vehicles at and over protesters, killing and maiming them?

You don't call a crowd of people charging at the police van throwing items (can't make out if they are stones or bottles or what) "attacking"?

What people were seriously hurt? I certainly don't see anybody being "killed" or "maimed".

If you don't want to get hurt, move out of the way of the moving vehicle, not run directly into it. When the protesters drove armored vehicles at high speed into the police lines, the police moved out of the way. That's is what an intelligent person would do.

And yes, I would like to see the guards take a more forceful approach to "protesters" who continuously ignore instructions. For example, for the Jobstown debacle, I would have fully supported the driver of the minister's car driving off. Not necessarily at high speed and without warning, but moving at 10-15 kmph, beeping his/her horn, and if the Paul Murphy fanatics get hurt, it is entirely their own fault.

FTA69 · 19-10-2016 05:17PM

dotsman wrote: »

You don't call a crowd of people charging at the police van throwing items (can't make out if they are stones or bottles or what) "attacking"?

What people were seriously hurt? I certainly don't see anybody being "killed" or "maimed".

If you don't want to get hurt, move out of the way of the moving vehicle, not run directly into it. When the protesters drove armored vehicles at high speed into the police lines, the police moved out of the way. That's is what an intelligent person would do.

And yes, I would like to see the guards take a more forceful approach to "protesters" who continuously ignore instructions. For example, for the Jobstown debacle, I would have fully supported the driver of the minister's car driving off. Not necessarily at high speed and without warning, but moving at 10-15 kmph, beeping his/her horn, and if the Paul Murphy fanatics get hurt, it is entirely their own fault.

Alright Garda you've made your point.

Iwasfrozen · 19-10-2016 05:24PM

HensVassal wrote: »

I don't get it.

The police work for Duterte, correct?
Duterte thinks Obama is a "son of a whore" and want US troops out and US bases closed. He basically wants the country to be independent of US occupation and interference.

So if people are protesting US troops (which is Duterte's position as well) then why would Duterte's police attack the protesters and run them over like this?

Something's not right.

The US want Duterte "regime-changed" because he is showing resistance to US bullying and wants to strengthen ties with China.

I'll be called a tinfoiler for this but I smell a deliberate false flag to foment revolution against Duterte. It's the tried and tested tactic used in Ukraine, in Brazil, Syria, Venezuela, color revolutions, rinse repeat.

Or...

It's a conspiracy by Duterte to swell anger against the US.

See? I can make stuff up too.

Jesus. · 19-10-2016 05:31PM

HensVassal wrote: »

You think the Gardai should be allowed to drive vehicles at and over protesters, killing and maiming them?

Was anybody killed? That bird in the green was lucky. Can't believe that's a Police van!

ClovenHoof · 19-10-2016 05:34PM

The copper is nuts, but a lot of the protestors appear to not be too bright either putting themselves in the way of the van more than once.

Gatling · 19-10-2016 05:37PM

Jesus. wrote: »

Can't believe that's a Police van!

It's definitely a police vehicle looks like it's more for carrying fences through

Didas · 19-10-2016 06:09PM

dotsman wrote: »

Am I watching the same video as everybody else?

All I am seeing is a huge mob trying to attack a police officer. In a bid to survive, he drives his van away. Nobody gets seriously hurt, nobody dies, nobody gets hurt that isn't 100% responsible for the result. The video then shows "protesters" in armored vehicles driving at police to break the police lines. The only difference is that the police move out of the way, whereas in the first clip, the "protesters" seem to do everything they can to be run over.

One can only dream.

Political bias can skew so many things, I never thought it could actually affect eyesight though...

Joshua J · 19-10-2016 06:19PM

Bunny Colvin wrote: »

There's plenty of people who want to know what's going on in the world, no matter how ugly it is.

I said people don't NEED to see it not that they shouldn't be allowed to see it. If I know one thing for sure in life it's nutters gonna nut, just try not to be around when it happens.

BalcombeSt4 · 19-10-2016 06:51PM

dotsman wrote: »

Am I watching the same video as everybody else?

All I am seeing is a huge mob trying to attack a police officer. In a bid to survive, he drives his van away. Nobody gets seriously hurt, nobody dies, nobody gets hurt that isn't 100% responsible for the result. The video then shows "protesters" in armored vehicles driving at police to break the police lines. The only difference is that the police move out of the way, whereas in the first clip, the "protesters" seem to do everything they can to be run over.

One can only dream.

Your one sick individual.

Police truck runs over demonstrators protesting US troops in Philippines today

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