Comments by "John Woodrow" (@johnwoodrow8769) on "Clashes outside Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque" video.

I've watch videos of the incident. The main thing I see is police virtually inviting trouble, then using excessive and unnecessary force.
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@SwoleMofo' Worse! I must have missed the reports of police using real bullets on the crowd, only saw massive amounts of rubber bullets and stun grenades being discharged at anyone just standing around. Best the unarmed crown could then do after the police barrage started was to return a few rocks.
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@SwoleMofo' Have dug, can't find any video that shows anything different. If it exits why wouldn't it be running as headline news footage. Media loves that sort of stuff. As you have a video giving a different perspective, mind posting up a link to it. P.S. While looking did find video footage of the previous 'incident'. Bunch of elderly men seemingly just wanting to prey being confronted by a wall of heavily armed police in a very confronting and harassing manner. Everything them stems from that action, as things do in just about any part of the world. But you may be right, perhaps it was just some movie set with actors making it look that way for purely propaganda reasons.
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I agree. Yes someone throws what looks like an empty water bottle at a line of heavily armed police taking an unnecessary and confrontational stance, to which the police retaliate by attacking virtually everyone with over the top rubber bullets and stun grenades. That's what the video evidence shows.
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@Syafiq Mienomi There is a reason they "don't want to show the footage". The poor and completely unnecessary police handling of the situation is painfully obvious. To call them an out of control bunch of cowboys would be an understatement.
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@Syafiq Mienomi Good point. When I was younger I attended a few 'rallies' that turned into a police/crowd confrontation (not this topic or sides). Anyone who dismisses report that police start confrontations is simply either naive or pushing a narrative. In EVERY case the ones I attended, the police stated it. In one case the crowd was getting bored and starting to clearly peaceably disperse. The police seeing their opportunity slipping away attacked. On that nights TV news "violent crowd attacks police".
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@SwoleMofo' I'll take it you really don't have any contradiction evidence that heavy handed policing was what started the 'incident'. Yes, a section of the crowd had become vocal. But if police had simply remain out of sight and let people vent their frustration, as long as they were no damaging property or attacking innocent people (which wan't happening), then 99.9% of the time these things come to exactly nothing. It's how police in most of the world correctly handle this type of stuff.
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@SwoleMofo' "Credible journalists", I believe that is known as an oxymoron. That's why I'm only interested in original video, which you can't supply to backup your claim. So far the only one I have seen is the incident starting with a vicious police attack on a vocal crowd, COMPLETELY out of proportion to the situation. So basically we have established you are just full of BS. Case Closed. P.S. And as far as wasting someone time, it is you who are promoting your bigotry (yes you are one, that's your sole motivation) under my original comment.
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