EGYPTIAN POLICE BRUTALITY FOOTAGE LOOKS SO FAMILIAR

If it weren't for the Arabic-language chyron, you might have trouble telling whether this video—in which riot-gear police beat protesters with batons and drag a protester by the hair through the streets—was shot in Cairo or on a University of California campus. Even the background graffiti is written in American!
To be clear, it's a video taken from today's demonstration in Tahrir Square. The strangest scene comes at :58, when a cop who's beating a protester lying on the ground hands his baton over to some guy dressed in black, who gets his own whack in before returning the baton. How thoughtful of that police officer! Maybe he has some pepper spray he can lend to a passerby who wants to play "University of California Cop" for a while.
According to the BBC, the death toll from this weekend's pro-democracy protests has climbed to nine, while AFP says 11. Nearly 1,000 people have been injured during the crackdown, which has involved the use of tear gas (how Oaklandy) and rubber bullets (just like in Oakland and Denver!). In addition to attacking the protesters, police have also burned down their tents.
"The violence ... showed us that [former Egyptian President Hosni] Mubarak is still in power," one protester, Ahmed Hani, told the Associated Press news agency 20 November 2011.

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[ADZ01982]

Damn this shit is just sadistic. I ask them police officers where is your conscious ?

[mrshitbear]

@MrThemutsnuts you need to wake to yourself

[kshaq22]

@MrThemutsnuts

What the fuck has this to do with Islam? Are you fucking retarded? I can use the argument to manipulate every injustice happening in the world, including the United Snakes.

[maumauhun]

that country is a chaos. islam wanna take over, ppl let them near victory. chaos chaos.... police beatin their own people, whats next? lethal ammunation, grenades, muslim takeover, dictatorship, 2nd gaddafi state? ridicoulus

[BjornTuroc]

You think the police are bad now, wait until the Muslim Brotherhood take over Egypt.

[TheThormx101]

I wish they could do that to all these occupy wankers

[irshadNo4]

0:55 let me have a go

[GWC1975]

No, actually, it's pretty easy to tell that they're Arabs and not at UC Davis.

[MrSawyer770]

that's not good..

its not good at all..

EVERY THING YOU WILL DO, WILL TURN SOME-DAY UPON YOU..

[Cheniperly]

Liebe Gott!!!!!!!!!!! :(