I like the OP comment with this. In the West, with no exceptions, the police has completely been going through a militarization culture. The Israel involvement with all these police departments is just part of it all since the US promotes that inter-police-collaboration and sources sharing, unaware Europeans that there is an agenda with it all. That started with US movies and series for decades keep portraying the "efficiency" of such models and then when Europe offer its hand to US after 9-11, US took the arm. Of course, Western governments welcomed it all and gave the funds for the total conversion. Israel/US are just very good at using movies, media and unparalleled inside access to filtrate into procurement channels of the Western Police departments.
But, unlike US, there is hope for a handful of European police forces to be retrained to serve the community back. I just don't see it the political will thought, not even in Sanchez's government (that is very fragile at the moment anyways). The reason for hope is that the people that join the Spanish police, for instance, are highly representative of the society when joining... it just gets the toxic culture of militarization and power once inside through politicians endorsement and police unions. In the US, the people that join the police forces come already with the toxic culture (and far less trained individuals too!).
Let's see the Basque official statement in this event on Tuesday; I hope there will be a bit of criticism on their police action, since it clearly overacted with just someone "no obeying an order to stand back" in a mundane situation; but not much hope for even that concession to be frank.
That’s because western society promotes violence. It’s basically a national right to do a school shooting.
I was listening to an interview with a Zeteo correspondent who was also on the flotilla, and was tortured. He mentioned being hit with munitions specifically branded for Texas police units. The degree to which Israel has influenced global law enforcement is extremely high.
Israel is ACAB's final boss
Who fell for Pedro Sanchez acting as if he opposed isra(p)el?
As mentioned by others, Sanchez does not control the Basque police, not that the Spanish police will be behaving any different anyways.
The problem with the Police in the entire Iberia is the toxic Hollywoodized culture they get in once inside. For instance, I take that one police officer over reacted and the rest, instead of mitigating that erroneous stance, jumped to defend that officer without no questions. After seeing all videos published, this could have been prevented 100% by mere sensible policing.
Basque country is one of the many autonomous regions within Spain - based on Spanish constitution, there are varying degrees of autonomy and basque is one of the most autonomous regions, nearly seeing itself as it's own country and would probably split off from Spain if their economy wasn't so dependent on remaining Spanish.
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