00:12The first demo I went to after October 7th was this really brutal one. Never seen anything like it. I'd
00:18never seen police charge at crowds of people. I'd never seen them use pepper spray. I'd never seen them like
00:23grabbing kids out of the crowd and punching them and putting them in police vans.
00:28Like this was all insane to me at the time. And once you see that you kind of, I think
00:34it does radicalize you further.
00:36I've been arrested like I think 15 times or something, have been put into jail, had people like shake my
00:45body on all the tattoos, noting them down, taking pictures of my profile and like all the different angles of
00:51myself and therefore also being now really fast recognizable at like demonstrations.
01:08You feel so agitated inside of yourself. A cop could come at like any moment arrest you or like come
01:15in, beat up somebody or take somebody else. So it's always like high voltage for like everyone.
01:22I'm also a nasty racist called racist films and myTurns album it's always like song okay so you have to
01:43pick up your life and you have to fight you on.
01:50And then when the police pull away, they go out and start singing again.
01:53I mean, that's a riot, you know.
01:56Riot seems like a strong word for it.
01:59It could also be that the police decide, today we forbid Arabic.
02:03So if we hear Arabic, then we're going to shut down the demonstration.
02:07And obviously you can imagine the anger that people could feel.
02:11Being basically in 1933 and forbidding languages is, I think, very reminiscent of our past.
02:21You see people fight back and you see people win these standoffs with police.
02:25Where the police are in your face, they form this war, they threaten to charge,
02:29and people are backing down and eventually the police back up and walk away.
02:33And the first few times I saw that happen in Berlin, it's like, come on, this is it.
02:39We can actually do this stuff.
03:13We can actually do this stuff.
03:13We've got to hate back there on it.
03:15We can constantly do it.
03:15We can't even think of it.
03:15We're doing it.
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