This is an unusual story, told by the police of Hamburg-Eimsbüttel (an area that I'd put in north Hamburg...just east of Altona). The info comes off their own web site.
One cop was on bike-patrol in the Eimsbüttel area....near a school. Trouble is seen by the policeman....two boys fighting. A group of kids are standing around the two fighting.
Policeman rides up to this....dismounts, and gets into the middle of this to halt the fight. One assumes that he radios in his situation, and some police-center reacts.
One of the kids (13 years old) has his hand continually in his jacket pocket. Policeman 'knows' the kid....meaning that there's been run-in's with the kid before. Policeman tells the kit do remove his hand from the pocket....kid does NOT comply.
The situation intensifies....kid puts up resistance. Policeman is trying now to strong-arm (physically) the kid.
The two (in some wrestling-like situation) are now on the ground. Other kids in the group are now hitting, kicking and assaulting the policeman....while he still holds the kid on the ground.
Police began to arrive. Roughly 80 kids are in this mess.
More police are assaulted, spit upon, and hit.
Twelve squad cars end up there (two police in each).
The 13-year old kid? Only when he is taken into full custody and removed from the scene by car....does the mess start to decrease.
Police would detain two additional kids (12 and 13 years old) as well....later handing them to their guardians.
Dangerous physical harm charges and insult laws broke? Yes, and the three kids detained probably will face some minor consequences.
It's a trend that you see in major urbanized areas of Germany now....where respect for the police is decreasing, and it reaches down into kids now being a respect problem.
What the kid had in his pocket? That might be interesting to know (Maybe a knife or pepper-spray, or just Juicy-Fruit gum), and that would have gotten him into a ton of extra trouble.
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