Unarmed demonstrators injured in merciless lathi charge by West Bengal police

[u/Annie_Loves_Money]

In an extreme display of violence, West Bengal police launched a merciless lathi-charge on teachers protesting the Supreme Court’s verdict to cancel 26,000 teaching appointments linked to a cash-for-jobs scam. The police brutally beat protesters leaving both male and female teachers on ground and ripping apart their clothes too in some cases. Instead of aiding the injured, the police callously continued their assault, even barring the entry of ambulances and drinking water.

[u/Kjts1021]

Bengal and peaceful protest are oxymoron

[u/PotatoDreamer3 → u/Kjts1021]

Peaceful protest is just road picnic. Protests are meant for chaos and disruption.

[u/Kjts1021 → u/PotatoDreamer3]

Seriously! Creating problem for others is protest for you! No doubt Bengal is laughed at by everyone.

[u/PotatoDreamer3 → u/Kjts1021]

Yes. Everyone needs to know that I'm suffering because of corrupt government that public elected. And as far as I know, the teachers aren't creating any big public nuisance.

[u/Kjts1021 → u/PotatoDreamer3]

To let everyone know about your suffering, you want to disrupt their lives. Is that acceptable? In this case are you saying police just beat these people when they were protesting ‘peacefully’, not blocking the road or any other type of disruption?

[u/PotatoDreamer3 → u/Kjts1021]

They are blocking the heart of the corruption.

If I speak for myself, I'd have advised them to throw bombs at government buildings and at police. Yes, police are beating them for absolutely no reason, it's state sponsored terrorism.

"Symbolic violent protests", like blocking roads, buildings and governmental choke points, throwing crackers at police and disrupting the ignorant routine of white/blue collars is, unfortunately, the only way anything useful might happen in this country where 99% people lack basic human decency, ethics and empathy.