Berkeley Protests: Cop Attacks Cindy Pincus In The Head With A Baton

Written by: Vandita 

Cindy Pincus, the 29-yr-old minister at First Unitarian Universalist Society in San Francisco,  was helping a fallen protester during the Berkeley protests early this month over police killings of Michael Brown, Eric Duncan, Tamir Rice, and many others when she was attacked in the head from behind by a cop with his baton.

Cindy was hospitalized after the attack and the Huffington Post reports that it took three staples to seal the gash in her head. The blow to her skull caused a gaping head wound and a concussion.  “I had a brief blackout in my vision. I saw stars,” said Cindy. “I would say it’s an indiscriminate and disproportionate reaction to peaceful protests. It was completely way out of line”.

Hit from behind with police baton while retreating peacefully. #berkeleyprotests #BlackLivesMatter @abc7newsBayArea pic.twitter.com/qbSnxRWNao

— Cindy Pincus (@CinPinMin) 7. Dezember 2014

Video footages show that police has been initiating violence to provoke the peaceful protesters to intimidate the other protesters, paralyzing them with fear and anger. The protesters are left with no choice but to go on fight-or-flight mode and defend themselves.  This tactic works for police because most of the time the protesters can’t defend themselves from a cop’s weapon and therefore he is charged for causing commotion, rampage and violence and put behind bars. Check out this video in which police randomly attacked a peaceful senior citizen…

The reality is riot cops are trained to engage in taunting — actions whereby they intentionally attack protesters – to provoke a protester into defending him or herself. The above incidents prove that a peaceful protester is more likely to be attacked by cops, given how police are trained. The more peaceful a protester is, the more vulnerable he is as target for police violence.

Here’s the video in which Berkeley police is intentionally attacking the most peaceful protesters…

Looking at what happened to Cindy and what happens to most peaceful protesters, Malcolm X’s statement – it is criminal to teach a man to not defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks – does ring true.

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Source:

http://filmingcops.com/christian-ministers-head-split-open-bludgeoned-by-swarm-of-cops/