| 102 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 21:51 | 21:51 | Rokin, close to The Bulldog Gottahaves | Police Violence; Demonstrations | Police chasing people down the street with bats | 1 video | 2024-05-11T11:02:55.864Z |
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| 103 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | around 18.00? | 18:00 | Binnengasthuis, behind the barricade | Speech; Police Violence; Injuries; Barricades; Eviction | Ik heb als street medic gezorgd voor een paar mensen achter de barricade
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later daar weggehaald. Sommigen werden opgehaald door een ambulance: - Eén met 3 grote builen op hun voorhoofd en bovenkant van hun hoofd van een wapenstok. Deze persoon had ook last van hun zicht. Het was wazig van zowel dichtbij als ver weg. Ik had ook het idee dat deze persoon soms een beetje wegviel. - Eén die op haar gezicht vlak naast haar oog werd geraakt door een wapenstok. Dat was erg opgezwollen en blauw. Haar oogwit was rood. Wellicht licht gescheurde oog socket. We nemen aan dat daar ook een hersenschudding bij was. Toen we haar initieel naar buiten brachten, mochten we niet bij haar komen om te kijken wat er met haar aan de hand was. - Eén die geraakt werd met een wapenstok op zijn neus. Zijn neus had een grote wond die matig bloedde. Vermoedelijk gebroken neus. (deze persoon werd opnieuw buiten de barricade neergehaald toen ik probeerde hem naar de zijkant te brengen en een ambulance te bellen. Op dat moment werd ik ook neergehaald en over de straat gesleept, waarbij mij werd verteld dat ik wist dat ik gearresteerd was, wat niet zo was omdat ik daar was als medic en we de gewonde mensen over de barricade naar de straat konden brengen, dus ik nam aan dat ik een ambulance kon bellen. Later werd mij verteld dat het een vergissing was en mocht ik gaan, maar mijn collega-medic werd gearresteerd en kwam pas vanmiddag naar buiten.) Mijn collega-medic zorgde ook voor deze persoon: - Eén persoon had geen duidelijke verwondingen. Was bovenop de bulldozer hoorden we van andere aanwezigen. Toen mijn collega bij deze persoon aankwam, was diegene al geboeid met handen op de rug en buiten bewustzijn. Het was moeilijk om hun pols te vinden in de nek. Toen heeft mijn collega gevraagd aan de agent om de handboeien af te doen. Dit duurde 5 minuten voordat dat werd goedgekeurd. Toen hebben we de persoon in de stabiele zijligging gelegd. Toen kon de pols gevonden worden in hun pols. Het was moeilijk om hun ademhaling te voelen via hun rug of voor het gezicht. Toen heeft mijn collega in paniek aan de agenten gevraagd om een ambulance. Daar kwam initieel het antwoord op dat ze druk waren. Toen mijn collega dit aangaf zei een van de romeo's ""ik geef haar 5 tikken dan weten we of het echt is"". Er werd door de politie gezegd dat de ambulance er toch niet doorheen zou komen. Toen mijn collega voorstelde om de persoon erheen te dragen, mocht dat ook niet. Uiteindelijk na 10 minuten smeken (waarschijnlijk ook door de aanwezigheid van de amnesty observer) werd de ambulance gebeld. Bij het aangeven dat deze persoon waarschijnlijk in shock was, was de reactie ""kijk maar uit dat jij niet in shock raakt"". Het ambulancepersoneel heeft bij aankomst heeft vrij weinig gedaan en wilde met mij niet praten in eerste instantie. De persoon kwam toen langzaam bij bewustzijn door te praten en water in hun nek te doen. Later kon de persoon rechtop zitten en konden emergency blankets worden omgedaan. De persoon was op dat moment nog erg verward en kon geen vragen beantwoorden. Er leek weinig teken van leven te zijn. Deze persoon is toen door twee romeo's meegesleept naar de andere kant van het kanaal en gearresteerd. Op dat moment is ook mijn collega gearresteerd. De derde medic zorgde voor deze 3 mensen binnen de barricade: - Eén werd geslagen in het kruis, bovenbeen en bovenarm met een wapenstok. Deze persoon had veel pijn. - Eén werd geslagen op bovenarm en hand met een wapenstok - Eén werd met pepperspray bespoten Nadat ik zelf werd laten gaan en de personen die ik had geholpen buiten de politielinie had begeleid, ging ik helpen bij de EHBO-post op de Rokin. Daar heb ik geholpen: - 4 mensen die met pepperspray waren bespoten - Eén persoon die een agent in de knie schopte en toen een vuistslag in het gezicht kreeg. Ze zouden hun neus kunnen hebben gebroken. Ze hadden twee laesies boven en onder één oog. Toen ik ze zag, werd de helft van hun gezicht paars. - Eén aantal mensen kwamen naar ons toe voor ijs voor wapenstokslagen op benen en armen. Ik heb deze aantallen niet geteld. Een vierde medic die mee liep verzorgde ook nog: - Eén persoon kreeg een schild in het gezicht. Leasie op de lip. Bloed weggespoeld. Er waren nog een aantal ingesprongen mensen bij onze post op Rokin. Van hen is het me onduidelijk wie ze hebben verzorgd toen ik nog bij binnengasthuisterrein was en ook toen ik in het protest rondliep om in te springen. Verder is er nog een persoon behandeld door een arts van HpA CentrumOost. Deze heeft een waarneemverslag gemaakt van iemand die klappen met een wapenstok heeft gekregen op het hoofd, arm, twee keer op een been, rug en hand. Als laatste is vanmorgen een minderjarig iemand vrij gekomen waar wij van uitgaan dat deze ook met geweld is gearresteerd. |
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| 104 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-06T00:00:00Z | 3:00 am | Unknown | 🐷 | Bruises 5 days after Monday pig violence in the first encampment. | 2 images; 1 video | 2024-05-11T13:16:31.166Z | |
| 105 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 18:30 | 18:30 | Langebrugsteeg, on the bridge | Injuries; Police Violence | around 18:30 the riot police removed us from in front of a police bus that was heading to the Binnengasthuisterrein. They did this with the usual police bats hit on arms and legs but also some stabbing movements in our bellies. This happened with some resistance nothing was thrown at them nor were they hit. Footage of moments before this are found here: [omitted]. When we were standing 4 meters back, and next to the bus, they sent the AT (arrestatieteam) police on us who hit us on our head. Of this there is no footage, only of the aftermath where 4 people with headwounds were treated by local first aid protestors. I lost a lot of blood and an ambulance was called, but they said they couldn't get to that location so we had to find a car/taxi and go to the hospital ourselves. in the end they put stitching glue at the hospital, and for now it doesn't seem to have caused internal trauma. A photo of me after the AT attack I added as file. | 5 images | 2024-05-11T14:46:30.379Z |
| 106 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z | evening | Evening | Nieuwe Keizersgracht | Demonstrations | just the march | 1 video | 2024-05-11T14:52:15.320Z |
| 107 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 17:00 | 17:00 | Binnengasthuis | Eviction; Police Violence; Demonstrations; Injuries; Barricades | Vlak voor de politie ging vorderen kwam ik aan bij de meest rechtse barricade. Ik was op zoek naar een vriend maar die was bij een andere barricade waar ik dus niet meer heen kon. We zwaaiden nog even naar elkaar maar toen ging de politie heel snel over op geweld en zag ik dat mijn vriend met geweld naar achter werd gedrukt. Aan onze kant begon de politie ook klaar te staan om de barricade te doorbreken. Mensen stonden arm in arm maar de politie duwde ontzettend en iemand naast me kreeg een paniekaanval door te weinig adem. Uiteindelijk werden we richting een heel smal deel van de straat geduwt. Iemand struikelde langs met een bloedende hoofdwond. | 1 image; 3 videos | 2024-05-11T16:26:56.352Z |
| 108 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 21:39 | 21:39 | Rokin, Metro Exit | Street Tactics; Demonstrations; Barricades | Protestors scaring away the cops🔥 | 1 video | 2024-05-11T16:35:20.878Z |
| 109 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 5pm | 17:00 | Near Oudemanhuispoort | Injuries | Hi, I am a student at the UvA and I wanted to submit my experience from Wednesday's protest at the Oudemanhuispoort encampment, around 5pm I was beaten with a baton on my legs when I wasn't being violent, I will attach pictures of the resulting bruises. I was then arrested and handcuffed using zip ties which were closed very tight, which was painful and cutting blood circulation to my hands for a long time while I was brought to the police station, where they took them off using various tools which also injured my hand as pictured and seemed rather dangerous, such as using a swiss army knife right next to my wrist. Between this and the psychological violence they inflict, I am still recovering. It's ridiculous and unpardonable that I pay an institution that calls on the cops to beat me up and leave me in such a state in order to keep ties with a genocidal state. I hope some sort of justice can be accomplished. Thank you for your work. Viva Palestina! | 5 images | 2024-05-11T16:45:03.481Z |
| 110 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Evening | Evening | Rokin | Demonstrations; Police Violence; Injuries | Ik ontmoet een jonge vrouw terwijl ze op wat gevallen fietsen ligt. Ze heeft rode ogen en ik zie tranen over haar wangen stromen. Ze vertelt: ""Ik liep helemaal achteraan in het protest. Ik probeerde andere demonstranten gerust te stellen. mensen achter me werden zó hard geduwd door de oproerpolitie dat ik op straat viel.” “We zeiden tegen de politie “WE PROBEREN TE LOPEN!” ""Mijn hand lag op iemands rug. De politie sloeg op de ruggen van mensen, en ook heel hard op mijn hand. Toen viel ik tussen de fietsen. Ze liepen over me heen.” Mijn collega-arts onderzocht de rechterhand van deze vrouw, waarna ze moest concluderen dat de hand naar alle waarschijnlijkheid gebroken was en stuurde haar door naar de HuisartsenPost voor de juiste zorg | 2024-05-11T16:45:46.097Z | |
| 111 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | EVENING | Evening | Rokin | Police Violence; Injuries; Demonstrations | Gedurende de demonstraties zijn vreedzame demonstranten ok moedwillig en hardhandig op het onbeschermde hoof geslagen. Dit leidde tot hevige bloedingen en en aantal ziekenhuisverwijzingen. Zo getuigt één van min collega's: Op de avond van woensdag & mei verleende ik eerste hulp op het Rokin, waar ik 6 mensen hielp die pepperspray in hun gezicht hadden gekregen, en twee mensen verzorgde die met batons [=stokken] door de ME waren geslagen. Één van hen was direct op het hoof geslagen met een baton en kwam bij mij met en bloedende hoofdwond midden op het hoofd. | 2024-05-11T16:49:58.823Z | |
| 112 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17:00 | 17:00 | Oudemanhuispoort | Eviction; Barricades; Demonstrations | Police starting to clear the encampment and pushing away the support protest | 3 videos | 2024-05-11T16:51:57.608Z |
| 113 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-11T00:00:00Z | 17:30 | 17:30 | Kruising Weesperstraat Nieuwe Keizersgracht | 2024-05-11T17:17:12.720Z | |||
| 114 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 17:30 | 17:30 | Kruising tussen Weesperstraat Nieuwe Keizersgracht | Police Violence | cop hitting a student after the cops: 1. Blocked the road without giving us any clear instructions and caused a pile up of students between the cars. 2. Told people to get back and started hitting the guy at the front when he literally couldn’t back up because there were people behind him. 3. The cop grabbed the student by his shirt as he hit him and told him to get back. Obviously the student couldn’t get back with the cop holding him either. They used clearly excessive violence. I started filming after the violence begun, prior to hitting the student with the baton he also hit him on the head with his fist multiple times. When I went to ask another cop why they were blocking the road, he responded that I had to “get back or I’ll use violence” as I stood in front of him posing no threat whatsoever, simply asking why my fundamental rights were being imposed on. Another cop then did speak normally to me. I hope you can use this video somehow. | 1 video | 2024-05-11T17:23:28.999Z |
| 115 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z | 17.00-22.00 | 17:00-22:00 | Binnengasthuis, behind the barricade | Eviction; Police Violence; Barricades; Injuries | witnessed by an aid worker from doctors for gaza (testimony 3): ""One protester had 3 large bumps on the forehead and top of the head caused by a baton. This person also had vision problems with blurred vision both near and far. I also had the feeling that this person was sometimes a little off, less conscious. A woman was hit in her face right next to her eye by a baton. That was very swollen and blue. Her eye white was bloody. We assume that included a concussion. When we initially wanted to bring her out, we were not allowed to get to her to see what was going on with her."" ""When I tried to take a protester who had suffered a bleeding and suspected broken nose after being hit by the baton to the side and call an ambulance, he was again knocked down outside the barricade. I myself was struck as a medic and dragged across the street, being told that I knew I was under arrest. This despite the fact that I was there clearly recognizable as a medic bringing wounded people across the barricade. I was later told it was a mistake and allowed to go, but my fellow medic was arrested and not released until the next day."" see testimony 3 of uploaded media for original dutch version | 1 document | 2024-05-11T17:34:05.642Z |
| 116 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 19:00 | 19:00 | Rokin, near dam square | Demonstrations | Buses were being brought in (prob for arresten??) and we stopped them | 1 image | 2024-05-11T17:41:27.713Z |
| 117 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 20:00 | 20:00 | Rokin, Starbucks | Demonstrations | As we marched on Rokin in the direction of Munt we passed Starbucks and shouted boycot. | 1 video | 2024-05-11T17:49:31.854Z |
| 118 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17.00-22.00 | 17:00-22:00 | Binnengasthuis, behind the barricade | Injuries; Police Violence | testimony 5 from an aid worker from docters for gaza (artsen voor gaza): aid worker wasn't allowed to get ambulance for unconsious activist, when activist later regained consciousness but was still in shock he was arrested and the aid worker was arrested after this. ""The person was already handcuffed with hands behind his back and unconscious when I arrived. It was difficult to find a pulse in the neck. I asked the officer to remove the handcuffs. It took 5 minutes before this was approved. Then we put the person in the stable side position. Since we then felt a heartbeat but barely any breathing I panicked and asked the officers for an ambulance. The initial response to that was that they were busy. The Romeo said ""I'll give her 5 ticks then we'll know if it's real"" and I was told by the police that the ambulance wouldn't get through anyway. When I suggested carrying the person there, that was not allowed either. Finally after 10 minutes of pleading (in the presence of the amnesty observer) the ambulance was called. Upon indicating that this person was probably in shock, the response from the police was ""just watch that you don't go into shock."" The person then slowly regained consciousness and later the person was able to sit up and emergency blankets could be put on. At that time, the person was still very confused and could not answer any questions. This person was then dragged by two romeos to the other side of the canal and arrested. After this, I myself was arrested."" see part testimony 5 in added document for original dutch version | 1 document | 2024-05-11T17:52:49.684Z |
| 119 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17.00-22.00 | 17:00-22:00 | Rokin, EHBO-post | Police Violence; Injuries | testimony 6 from an aid-worker of docters for gaza (artsen voor gaza): ""I had to help 4 people who had been sprayed with pepper spray. I could not keep track of how many people came to us for ice for pain and swelling after being hit by batons on legs and arms. People were repeatedly beaten by police. One protester was treated by a doctor from the CentrumOost GP Post who determined that he received blows with the baton on the head, arm, twice on the legs, back and hand."" see testimony 6 in the added document for original dutch version | 1 document | 2024-05-11T17:55:55.378Z |
| 120 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | I think Around noon, late noon.. | 12:00 | Binnengasthuis, UvA niet ver van binnengasthuis daaro.. vergeef me dat het me niet lukt specifieker te zijn ✌️ | Ik betwijfel of jullie hier nou echt iets mee kunnen, maar ik d8 ik stuur het toch maar.. | 2 videos | 2024-05-11T18:09:07.643Z | |
| 121 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 6-9PM | 18:00-21:00 | Oudemanhuispoort | 2 images; 8 videos | 2024-05-11T18:26:47.289Z | ||
| 122 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 8-9PM | 20:00-21:00 | Rokin | 3 images; 3 videos | 2024-05-11T18:30:55.750Z | ||
| 123 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z | 6-8PM | 18:00-20:00 | Roeterseiland Campus | 3 images; 6 videos | 2024-05-11T18:33:10.534Z | ||
| 124 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z | 7-9PM | 19:00-21:00 | Roeterseiland Campus, Spui | 4 videos | 2024-05-11T18:35:29.023Z | ||
| 125 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Between 17:00 and 21:00 | 17:00-21:00 | Oudemanhuispoort, Rokin | Peaceful Support; Demonstrations; Police Violence | 10 images | 2024-05-11T19:17:56.700Z | |
| 126 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-06T00:00:00Z | Between 23:30 and 02:00 | 23:30-02:00 | Roeterseiland Campus | Demonstrations; Barricades | 10 images | 2024-05-11T19:23:46.795Z | |
| 127 | Utrecht | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 22:50 | 22:50 | Drift (I think) | Police Violence | The police was intimidating the protesters who were sitting on the ground by driving the car back and forth towards them and then brutally arrested a guy who was trying to approach the campus. But going to the campus to join the students was forbidden unlawfully. | 2 videos | 2024-05-11T19:35:21.529Z |
| 128 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 17:00 | 17:00 | Nationaal Holocaust Namenmonument, Weesperstraat | Police Violence | The footage of this has gone viral on several media outlets such as Parool, Telegraaf and recently on national television (RTL4). I was in the frontline with comrades in front of the namenmonument when we got seperated from the main group with police vans. Multiple officers told us to go back, so we turned our backs to the group trying to get back to the group while not being able to because of the vans blocking our way. A single officer started pushing and swinging his bat violently at my girlfriend saying ""go already"", even though we couldn't move into the main groups as the space in between the vans was too small. I protected my girlfriend and other comrades by grabbing his bat. The officer started to kick my girlfriend and use his bare fist to hit me in the head multiple times. I grabbed his bat with both hands at this point to prevent him from hitting me and other people with it. The struggle turned into a tug of war, eventually seperating us. The adrenaline got to me and I flipped the officer off and spit at him. Unfortunately this was recorded by Marijn Schrijver, a journalist for De Telegraaf, and was shared on X and published by multiple tabloids and used as a way to frame the movement as violent in news outlets. | 1 video | 2024-05-11T20:14:23.897Z |
| 129 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z | 18:00 | 18:00 | Spui | Demonstrations; Police Violence; Injuries | Police brutality against peaceful students | 1 video | 2024-05-11T20:16:21.405Z |
| 130 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | All day | Day | Rokin | Police Violence | 2 videos | 2024-05-11T22:18:12.661Z | |
| 131 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17:48 | 17:48 | Rusland bridge | Police Violence | A peaceful protestor was talking to a police officer that start poking him with a baton, for no reason. Before I started filming he poked him already twice. | 1 video | 2024-05-12T07:51:21.080Z |
| 132 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-11T00:00:00Z | 14:00 | 14:00 | Rokin, Museumplein | Demonstrations | A march for Nakba day (15th of May). | 5 videos | 2024-05-12T08:09:28.388Z |
| 133 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 18:00 | 18:00 | Oudemanhuispoort | Eviction; Barricades; Campus Building | 16 students were pushed from the barricade into the campus tunnel by 4 police officers. Some were hit with battons but moved peacefully with their hands in the air. The group was kept their for just over hours, passing the time by praying, chanting, signing, and sharing food. The police stood watching, holding their riot shield and battons. As the time went on, and no arrests had been made, students wondered why there was such a delay, and what the police officers were planning. They were likely waiting for instruction from superiors. Here are pictures within the tunnel of the barricades, writing on the walls, and collection of welfare resources wisely left there by activists earlier in the day. | 5 images; 1 video | 2024-05-12T08:10:28.290Z |
| 134 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around the time of the UVA eviction | Eviction | UvA | Police Violence | I was not present but was following a livestream and screenrecorded this situation. I know it’s been documented but I think this is a particularly confronting angle and I wanted to make sure you have this footage. | 1 video | 2024-05-12T09:09:36.265Z |
| 135 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z | 17:00 - 17:45 | 17:00-17:45 | Oudezijds Voorburgwal, Oudezijds Achterburgwal, Grimburgwal | Eviction; Police Violence; Demonstrations | Verder heb ik ook eigen beelden, ten tijden van het ingrijpen van de politie tussen 17:00-17:45, op 9 mei. Hoek van Oudezijds Achterburgwal/ Grimburgwal. Ik stond vooraan de support demonstratie, het was onduidelijk waarop het politie optreden op was gericht. Op de fortificaties, of op de demonstranten die de gehele Oudezijds Achterburgwal bestreek? De omroep die werd gedaan, was vanaf de brug op de Oudezijds Voorburgwal/ Grimburgwal. Dit was dus onhoorbaar voor mensen op de Oudezijds Achterburgwal stonden. Toch, zoals duidelijk is te zien op de beelden. Werd er door -voornamelijk witte agenten- hard ingeslagen. Hier moet bij gezegd worden, dat opvallend was dat niet élke agent hier zo hard op in ging. Er waren een aantal agenten, van kleur, die alleen hun schilden gebruikte om te duwen. Zij hielpen mensen in veiligheid, tegen hun doorgedraaide collegas. Communiceerde beter en handelde menselijker. Ik heb zelfs mogen getuigen dat een agent zichtbaar geëmotioneerd was van zijn eigen positie. (die terecht vanwege zijn achtergrond anoniem bleef, middels mondkapje). Een persoonlijk observatie was dan ook: Dat in latere gesprekken bleek dat de regio's waaruit de agenten kwamen verschilden. De optredens van agenten uit Amsterdam-Amstelland leken minder heftig, dan bijvoorbeeld de agent uit de regio Achterhoek. Dit is in een landschap van een extreem rechts Nederland opvallend, verschilt het handelen van politie afhankelijk van de regio? (Ja, uiteraard. Maar dient beter onderzocht te worden). De beelden waren te groot om per mail te sturen. Het bevat een compilatie, en de originele beelden. | 4 videos | 2024-05-12T09:49:40.082Z |
| 136 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 22:30 | 22:30 | Rokin | Injuries | The police started to push the protesters away from Rokin square. The came from all sides with shield, battons and dogs. The crowd was pressed togheter and the police incited people to walk faster which wasn't possible given the amount of people pressed against each other. I was walking in the back line, close to where the police was pushing people, I got hit by a police men 4-5 times on my right arm and shoulder. Later another police men pushed one of my friends against a pole as we were trying to hurry up. Their nose seemed to be broken, but we couldn't stop to ask for a medic, because the police were walking threateningly behind us, making clear that we would take more hits if we didn't continue walking. | 1 image | 2024-05-12T10:15:29.274Z |
| 137 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 10 AM to 10 PM | 10:00-22:00 | Binnengasthuis surroundings, Rokin | Police Violence; Demonstrations; Injuries; Barricades; Eviction | Vanochtend ging ik de straat op, om op te komen voor de rechten van diegenen die niet mijn privilege hebben. De dag was hartverwarmend, de hele stad kwam samen in steun. Mensen werkten onaangespoord samen, werkend voor een betere wereld. Honderden mensen kwamen langs, om men te voorzien van alle benodigdheden. Het was prachtig om te zien. Samenwerkend in vreugde en de goede hoop dat onze kracht iets zou bereiken. Omdat wij wisten dat wij aan de juiste kant van de geschiedenis staan. Toen de avond begon te vallen over onze rebelse stad, werdt plotseling onze hoop vervangen door wanhoop. Zonder enige waarschuwing verschenen er enkele tientallen agenten om de hoek, zwaar bewapend. We werden omsingeld en bij de barricade weggeduwd. Wie niet snel genoeg liep, die kreeg klappen. Na zonder vordering verwijdert te zijn voegden we ons bij de rest van deze vreedzame demonstratie, aan de overkant van diezelfde gracht. De ontruiming begon, met de uitoefening van extreem geweld door de staat. Na dit brute geweld een uur aan te zien begon de politie onze vreedzame steun demonstratie, wederom zonder vordering of waarschuwing, weg te duwen. We gingen op de grond zitten, en agenten liepen tussen ons door, met wapenstokken slaant op de hoofden van willekeurige demonstranten. In paniek liepen we langzaam achteruit, terwijl ze bleven duwen. We hielden onze handen in de lucht. De man naast mij kreeg een klap op zijn hoofd van een wapenstok, terwijl hij zijn handen omhoog hield. Ik ben nog nooit zo bang geweest. We werden verder en verder verdwongen, op straffe van bruut fysiek geweld. Op het Rokin aankoment groeiden we. Het nieuws had zich verspreid, en de reactie op het staatsgeweld was groots. Honderden tot duizenden mensen sloten zich aan. Tijdens de volgende uren kwamen we samen en namen onze straten terug. De politie werdt verder en verder teruggeduwd. De hoop was terug. En ineens, aan het eind van de avond, werdt die weer weer de kop ingeduwd. Tientallen busjes verschenen wederom zonder waarschuwing. Honderden agenten, bewapend met honden, renden op de menigte in, en begonnen mensen te slaan. Ik rende weg, want ik kon het nog. Velen anderen kregen die optie niet. Ik lig nu huilend in bed, en kan niet slapen omdat al het geweld door mijn hoofd blijft spoken. Ik zal waarschijnlijk weer huilend wakker worden. Het geweld blijft maar doorgaan. Vandaag, en gisteren, en eergisteren, werdt onze stad neergeslagen. Maar er is nog een smeulend vonkje hoop in mijn hart. Want ik ken mijn stad. En morgen, morgen vecht mijn stad terug. | 2024-05-12T10:34:04.983Z | |
| 138 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-11T00:00:00Z | 16:13 | 16:13 | Near Museumplein | Demonstrations; Outside Agitators | We were almost at museumplein with the protest walk. We are standing next to the cart with the microphones and speakers. Than suddenly a guy runs over the cart to the other side. He starts yelling. He said somethings clearly against the protest, but couldnt hear what. He had black hair, not dutch, middle eastern/north african probably. He starts agressively running through the crowd. I think also hitting, but I couldnt really see. The man didnt looked like he was sober or mentally there, he had big eyes and looked mentally absent or disturbed. Than a group tried to get him down. Just by holding his arms back and putting him down. There was no hitting involved by this, just trying to put him on the ground for the safety of others (seen on the video). Later the man ran away again and again he was put down by a few people and a few motorpolice came to get the man. Than we were told to walk away fast for safety. | 1 video | 2024-05-12T10:47:10.440Z |
| 139 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-11T00:00:00Z | From 13:00 till 16:00 | 13:00-16:00 | Dam Square to Museumplein | Demonstrations | Peaceful protest pictures | 7 images; 3 videos | 2024-05-12T10:51:24.875Z |
| 140 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-11T00:00:00Z | Around noon | 12:00 | Near Dam Square | Demonstrations | 1 video | 2024-05-12T10:53:59.268Z | |
| 141 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 19:12 | 19:12 | Drie Bomen, Binnengasthuisstraat | Undercover Policemen | undercover police sharing information with police in uniform | 1 video | 2024-05-12T12:02:09.347Z |
| 142 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 21:00 | 21:00 | Rokin | 🐷; Police Violence | We were protesting at rokin and the police broke through the fences to start beating us up and using unnecessary violence. | 3 videos | 2024-05-12T12:36:56.809Z |
| 143 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 13:30 | 13:30 | Oudemanhuispoort | Demonstrations; Speech; Barricades | After i saw the violence from the first demonstration at the ABC campus I knew I had to play my part and use my skills to raise awareness. Being a photographer, I knew that photos can be some of the most powerful ways to convey moments and convey the energy that the students had during the protests. I left my home to go to the demonstration at OMHP and protest with the students as well as document the situation before the violence began. | 10 images | 2024-05-12T12:39:28.363Z |
| 144 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Evening | Evening | Rokin | Police Violence | Police moving in militaristic manner, urban suppression and riot gears | 1 video | 2024-05-12T13:12:21.297Z |
| 145 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-12T00:00:00Z | 17:30 | 17:30 | Weesperstraat | 2024-05-12T13:26:15.014Z | |||
| 146 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17:07 | 17:07 | Binnengasthuis, inside the occupied area (on top of the main barricade) | Barricades; Eviction; Police Violence | This is the moment the police came in to evict us and made an announcement. | 1 video | 2024-05-12T13:43:22.328Z |
| 147 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 3am | 03:00 | Roeterseiland Campus | Police Violence; Eviction; Injuries; Barricades | On Tuesday 7th of May, at 3 a.m., after the police bulldozed barricade C (the one on the side of the CREA building), I was violently beaten by multiple police officers. I have no recollection of the actual beating, but there are multiple videos circulating as I was on the front line of the barricade and one of the first people down. I remember regaining consciousness on the floor, my ears were heavily ringing and my glasses were broken so I couldn't see anything. A few officers continued to hit me although I was on the floor and screaming ""I'm down, I'm down"". I was told that if I don't get up I will be arrested. My head was heavily bleeding and I got bruises on both my knees and legs. Two of my comrades helped me evacuate the encampment. While we were asking for an ambulance to take me to the hospital, the cops hit one of my comrades with a stick. We walked further down the street and were harassed again by two officers for sitting on a bench and waiting for an ambulance or car to get to the hospital. We were dragged onto the main road and there we found an ambulance, the healthcare worker refused to take me to the hospital because ""I wasn't dying"". She was racist and apathetic, completely disregarding the intensity of the injury and pain. I was told to go to the hospital on foot with my friends and that the wound just needed some glue and was neither deep nor wide. I eventually made it to the hospital and got charged 206.27 euros for the doctor's consultation. The doctor said the wound was deep and that I needed stitches, I got three, and the doctor kept repeating that my hair was ""too dark"" and that she couldn't see anything??? I received no aftercare advice and wasn't told anything further about the later consequences. I also want to mention that every single healthcare worker (4 people) I encountered implied that I deserved this because I did not listen to the cops. I have sent proof by mail Thank you | 2024-05-12T13:44:14.388Z | |
| 148 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-12T00:00:00Z | around 18h | 18:00 | Student housing next to Oudemanhuispoort | Police Violence; Eviction; Demonstrations | A friend of mine and I were within the liberated zone when the tensions started to rise and they were going to suddenly evict us with force. My friend got a panic attack and while people were closing the barricades, I was looking for a way to get us out of here as she has past trauma from police violence during an uprising. We made it over the barricade to OMHP just as they were starting to come towards our camp. Once we made it past the barricade, in front of us we had a bulldozer and about a dozen ME behind it in front of us. Students living in a DUWO housing there saved us and took us in, just as the bulldozer passed us and cops intimidated us with batons to go inside. Once inside, we helplessly watched the horrors of police violence against peaceful and defiant protesters in front of our eyes from the window. At one point I went back on the street to record police violence and show solidarity with the people being divided into two and brutalised on the other side of the canal while the police carelessly shoved the barricades into the canal. I gave a brief interview to nos as the cops were intimidatingly and brutally dispersing the crowd on the other side of the canal in which I expressed the heartfelt duty we feel to stand here for the people of Palestine, especially given everything we have learned at UvA. Also I laid out the police violence vis-a-vis the love in the camp but the interview was not aired. | 7 videos | 2024-05-12T13:45:25.297Z |
| 149 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 18:32 | 18:32 | Rokin | Police Violence; Demonstrations | Police started violently beating and pushing protestors back | 2024-05-12T13:54:56.860Z | |
| 150 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 19- 21:30 | 19:00-21:30 | Oudemanhuispoort, encampment | Barricades | Setting up the barricades and the atmosphere in the camp | 3 images; 2 videos | 2024-05-12T14:00:56.868Z |
| 151 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | After 5pm | 17:00 | Oudemanhuispoort, outside the encampment | Barricades; Demonstrations; Police Violence | I was at the support demonstration outside of Oudemanhuispoort on Wednesday 08/05 from 1:30pm to 7pm approximately. Until 5, everything was peaceful, despite the heavy police presence around the encampment. After 5, however, the riot police showed up with two bulldozers to take down the barricades and the encampment. They pushed the outside protestors (including myself) along one side of oudezijds achterburgwal. They wanted us to move faster despite the amount of people who had to walk back along the canal, making it impossible to move back. I was one of the last to be able to ""retreat"", earning me a nice bruise on the arm and on my upper back from a baton. I was hit as I was stuck between the ledge of the bridge, fellow protestors trying to move back and the line of policemen. Once the way was cleared, they brought one of the bulldozers. The people in the encampment were standing on the barricades, to try and prevent their taking down. One of them got on the bulldozer and was violently brought down by to policemen, who shook them (her? him? I don't remember), pulled their hair and tried to make them to let go of their hold on the bulldozer. They eventually managed to take the barricade down by dumping everything into the canal. The other bulldozer, on the side opposite from where we were standing also started advancing. A few protestors stood in its way, throwing whatever they could find at it. One of them at some point preferred jumping into the canal rather than facing policemen menacingly walking towards him. Once the second barricade was taken down (once again by dumping the barricading material into the canal), another group of riot police came to our side and split our group into two. Some of us (including myself once again), sat down, but people behind us didn't, and that's at this sort of separation that the policemen formed a line. We were essentially stuck between two lines of riot police with nowhere to go, and completely unsure of what would happen to us: would they let us go eventually? Would they arrest us? We had no idea. This situation lasted for 30-40min, until 7pm. They would not tell us anything, and also didn't communicate between the two lines, thus giving us contradictory instructions. One side told us to remain where we were, while the other tried pushing us along the canal. Finally, they let us go without too much of a fuss at around 7pm, which is when I left the protest, while I know another group went to Rokin. | 3 images | 2024-05-12T14:12:49.466Z |
| 152 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 17:30 | 17:30 | Weesperstraat | Police Violence; Demonstrations; Injuries | Hi well my name is [omitted]… Last Tuesday, the 7th of May. I joined the protest a bit late, I’m not a student (at the moment). Got overwhelmed by the massive crowd which came around the corner from Kriterion. So then I decided to stay a bit in front of the group, I get quite nervous when I’m in such big crowds, but this way it was fine. Anyway.. When they put a blockades on the Weesperstraat, I didn’t want to move for a police riot car and just like that the officer inside ran his car over my foot…. Miraculously it came loose right when people around me started screaming. Five days later now and it’s already getting better. I hoped that it would go away but I might have to go see a doctor for this. After this happened I grabbed my phone to film what was happening so I have a little bit documented. Multiple officers forced people back including me. When I asked if I could back go through the blockade, the officer hit me with a baton without any warning whatsoever. I might’ve been not completely clear in what I wanted but there was no order given by the police, whatsoever. Right now there is a big ugly yellow spot on my left arm, my hands and fingers feel a bit strange but I can move ‘m more then that I could other last couple of days.. Even if I was a bit unruly of me, there’s no reasoning in just violently hitting away.. And also not in deliberately hitting people with your car, to where you have no view of what’s happening. These people are supposed to protect us? What a joke A kind lady asked me if I needed help and if I wanted to sit down somewhere, I told her I was okay. Right now I think maybe I should have sat down to tend to my injuries.. By the way I’m a Dutch person but I thought it would be better to do this in English, since everything is in English. I have a video of the officer who hit but not of him actually doing so. And also a photo of the license plate from the police car that ran over my foot even after I verbally made myself known to the officer driving the car. Good luck with everything, I’ll be back soon to help out where I can. Kind regards, [omitted] | 3 images; 1 video | 2024-05-12T14:29:38.752Z |
| 153 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 1:30-2:00 AM | 01:30-02:00 | Roeterseiland Campus | Demonstrations | After the first warning by the police, protesters remained on the encampment site while others left the barricade and started a supporting protest. | 8 images; 2 videos | 2024-05-12T14:33:32.042Z |
| 154 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Early evening | Evening | Rokin, Reguliersbreestraat | Demonstrations; Injuries; Police Violence | I was at Rokin to protest against the police violence that had happened at Oudemanhuispoort. I sat down with other protesters and even though we did not show any aggressive movements towards the riot police we were hit by batons. Later on, I stood up as a police van seemed to drive into a group of other protesters to my right, after which a group of policemen without shields attacked me and the people next to me. After hitting my arms a couple of times while I was protecting my head, the policeman started hitting my ribs. Later on at the same protest the police had made it impossible for us to stay at Rokin, so we fled towards Rembrandtplein. On our way there, I ended up at the back of the mass of people, and although we were walking at a steady pace, the ME kept hitting the people in the back, including me. As I was yelling that everyone was already walking, and that they were causing people to trample each other this way, I was met with more violence, and the ME started calling me ""mongool"" (an ableist term to denote people with low IQ). | 3 images | 2024-05-12T14:39:15.031Z |
| 155 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | I believe around 21/22 or smth | 21:00-22:00 | On the Amstel at the point right before they start chasing us in the Halvemaansteeg to Rembrandtplein | Police Violence | We were driven away from Rokin over the Amstel, the cops were already trying to create chaos, because they chase us when we can not go further and everyone start panicking. A bit later it was a bit more calm and I was walking away like everyone from the police with my head towards the crowd. There was still a lot of space between me and the cops, but one of them comes toward me and hits me in my back very hard with his stick. I turn around angry because what the f why would he do that, put my middle finger up and i turn around again and start walking faster away, which is followed by the same cop kicking me in the back so I fall on the ground, I hear my friends screaming for me on the sidestep (I was in the middle of the road). I try to stand up as I get hit multiple times very hard on my arms, back and leg (earlier the day I also got hit in my head while forming a line but I do not have proof of this). My friends are calling my name but now this folllows them being chased all of a sudden really agressively and I run into the same alley as I am screaming of fear. The cops hit us in the alley (halvemaansteeg), while we are running away. I had to run so hard that I and other people have to run at Rembrandtplein on the terraces of the restaurants to be safe. | 5 images; 2 videos | 2024-05-12T14:47:20.368Z |
| 156 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 5pm/6pm | 17:00-18:00 | Binnengasthuis | Eviction; Injuries; Barricades | AT5 LIVESTREAM 21:35-22:25 The police bulldozer is destroying the barricade and a person climbs onto the bulldozer. they are holding onto the front of the bulldozer (blocking the view of the driver). DIS Police officer climbs up the side and starts yanking this persons backpack straps/coat, they remain holding on the bulldozer and the police officer just keeps pulling onto them. At this point the DIS police is pulling on the strap at the top of their backpack, the persons head is being flung around. it looks like the persons head was also being hit against the the bulldozer continuously. they are pulled until they are hanging from the bulldozer with both hands. as this is happening two more DIS officers are climbing up the bulldozer. The persons left hand is ontop of the bulldozer and one police starts hitting this arm with his baton. The third DIS police comes from behind the person and just grabs their arm off the bulldozer (the first DIS police is still grabbing and pushing the person by their backpack straps.) once this arm is off the bulldozer the person falls. The original DIS police is still holding on to the backpack strap as the person is pushed off. Video then moves away from the bulldozer. Whilst this person is being aggressively removed from the bulldozer and beaten, another person from behind the barricade come towards the bulldozer to help the person on the bulldozer. Group of 15-20 police charge towards them and attack this person with their batons and shields. At least 4 of the police hit this person. | 1 video | 2024-05-12T14:48:30.456Z |
| 157 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z | Evening, around 21:00 | Evening; 21:00 | Spui | Injuries; Demonstrations; Police Violence | I was locking arms with fellow protesters as the police was starting to become more aggressive towards protesters. Apparently police vans started parking behind our line, while the ME had started to move towards us. While we were trying to move back as the police was telling us (while beating us with batons) I yelled that we could not move back any further. After hitting me a couple more times against the legs and in the groin area (due to me moving he only hit me in the pubic bone and missed my testicles) the police finally yelled that we had to go to our right, not backwards. While we were (again) complying, we still got hit multiple times. | 1 image | 2024-05-12T14:59:32.610Z |
| 158 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 16:00-17:30 | 16:00-17:30 | Oudezijds Achterburgwal | Police Violence; Barricades | 10 videos | 2024-05-12T15:05:22.777Z | |
| 159 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 18:32 | 18:32 | Rokin | Police Violence | The police started beating protestors unprovoked | 1 video | 2024-05-12T15:27:33.514Z |
| 160 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 18 | 18:00 | Weesperstraat | Police Violence | Politie blokkeerde de mars plots met grof geweld | 2 videos | 2024-05-12T15:29:30.452Z |
| 161 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17.23 | 17:23 | Brug 218 Grimburgwal | Police Violence | Not sure exactly when in the phase of police action this takes place, but I'm sharing this because you can see that police is cornering in a group outside of the barricade and preventing them from being able to move away while keeping on hitting them. | 1 video | 2024-05-12T15:31:29.651Z |
| 162 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 21:50 | 21:50 | Rokin, Olieslagerssteeg | Hi, Ik heb helaas geen foto’s of video’s van de momenten zelf, maar toen het Rokin werd leeg geveegd liepen mijn vriendin en ik helemaal achteraan, dus recht voor de politie, ME en speciale eenheid. Dit was woensdag 8 mei rond 21:50 en gebeurde toen de menigte werd weggedreven, dit was tussen de metrohalte Rokin en Olieslagerssteeg. Meermaals zagen we mensen die op hun benen en armen geslagen werden om sneller te lopen (wat onmogelijk was want er liep een menigte voor ons) en één meisje pal voor ons werd door een agent op haar hoofd geslagen (ze droeg een keffieh). Een vriendin is hier ook in haar nek geslagen. Hierna liepen wij door met onze handen half in de lucht, half op ons hoofd om onszelf te beschermen. Ik werd geslagen op mijn been, zie bijgevoegde foto’s. Helaas dus geen materiaal van het moment zelf, maar er is een duidelijke afdruk van een wapenstok zichtbaar. (De foto’s zijn van woensdagnacht, donderdagochtend en vrijdagmiddag.) Met vriendelijke groeten (en bedankt voor het werk dat jullie doen), [omitted] | 3 images | 2024-05-12T15:34:58.536Z | |
| 163 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 17:29 | 17:29 | Nationaal Holocaust Namenmonument | Police Violence; Injuries | 1 video | 2024-05-12T15:41:48.817Z | |
| 164 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 21:55 | 21:55 | Rokin | Police Violence; Injuries | Op woensdag 8 mei was ik aanwezig bij het protest op Rokin. Terwijl de mensen die protesteren werden weggedreven door de politie ben ik rond 21:55 op de Doelensluis brug door een politie agent met een knuppel geslagen op mijn arm. Op het zelfde moment werd in mijn gezicht geschreeuwd dat ik moest blijven rennen. Zonder aanleiding vanuit mijn kant, behalve dat ik deel uitmaakte van het protest, is er onrechtvaardig gehandeld tegenover mij door deze agent. Op de eerste foto is de blauwe plek op mijn arm een dag nadat ik ben geslagen te zien, de tweede foto is twee dagen erna. Ook al heb ik geen video/foto bewijs van dit incident, is er in de bijlage ook een video te vinden van politiegeweld tegenover protesterende mensen op Rokin om 21:51. Hopelijk is dit genoeg bewijs om in ieder geval mijn aanwezigheid aan te tonen. Omwille van het behouden van mijn privacy zou ik graag willen dat mijn naam niet bekend word gemaakt. Mochten jullie meer informatie nodig hebben dan kan er gerust contact met mij opgenomen worden. Jullie inzet om iets aan het politie geweld te doen word gewaardeerd! Met vriendelijke groet, [omitted] | 2 images; 1 video | 2024-05-12T15:46:52.342Z |
| 165 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 18:00 | 18:00 | Langebrugsteeg | Demonstrations; Injuries; Police Violence | I was at the demonstration in support of the just evicted Oudemanhuispoort encampment. There was a police line blocking entry to the campus and a sizeable gathering of demonstrators. The police started mobilizing to disperse us and since I was near the front I formed a part of the human chain to hold. In the violent skirmish that occurred when the cops began to beat demonstrators with batons and threaten us with dogs, I ended up pushed right into the police line, where I got hit several times on my left arm by a baton. I also noticed that a person shorter than me was in front of me and thus in the direct line of violence - the police were clearly aiming for their head despite them obviously not posing any threat - so I raised my arm to shield them and ended up being beaten on the knuckles of my left hand. As I knelt trying to assess whether anything was broken the police (once again clearly seeing I was in pain and posed no threat) led one of their dogs within biting distance from me. Thankfully, I got away with no severe injuries, only bruises, but I ended up having trouble using my left hand for a few days and am deeply disturbed psychologically still. Regrettably, in the chaos I ended up not seeing the person I was trying to help again. I am still worried about their wellbeing seeing how brutally the police targeted them. If it is at all possible, I would love to hear if they're okay, if not I completely understand. They were a femme person with a red keffiyeh covering their head, possibly of Indian descent. I can be contacted through the IG account listed below. | 2024-05-12T15:59:17.793Z | |
| 166 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z | Evening / Maagdenhuis protest | Evening | Spui | Police Violence; Injuries | Police pushing protesters back, baton strike by riot pig | 1 video | 2024-05-12T16:03:51.644Z |
| 167 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 1730 | 17:30 | Langebrugsteeg, toward Rokin | Injuries | 2 images | 2024-05-12T16:08:34.924Z | |
| 168 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 1841 | 18:41 | Oudezijds Achterburgwal | Injuries; Police Violence; Eviction | Hello fellow fighters, I have this video of the riot police excessively attacking peaceful protesters. You can see one of those not so clever officers drop his stick and because of that they start to unload their sticks onto the protestors. They were locked in because on the other side there was another squad of police so they couldn’t escape. If you need anything else, let me know. 🍉✌️ -------- Hello hello✊🏻✊🏻 It was on Oudezijds Achterburgwal 18:41 exact. Thanks for what you’re doing. All the love and peace. | 1 video | 2024-05-12T16:15:05.968Z |
| 169 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 1717-1758 | 17:17-17:58 | Oudezijds Achterburgwal | Eviction; Police Violence; Barricades; Injuries | Vid 1: taken at 17:17, 08.05.24. at intersection between Grimburgwal and Oudezijds Voorburgwal. Police made this announcement 3 times in dutch (most people did not understand it, since a lot of internationals were partaking in this protest). These three announcements were called out directly in succession and constituted as the three warnings the police legally have to give before moving in. Directly after this riot police started moving and seperating the protesters outside the encampment from the encampment itself Vid 2: taken at 17:20, 08.05.24. a little bit further down Oudezijde Voorburgwal. Police started pushing people further away from the encampment, using batons. Vid 3: taken at 17:58, 08.05.24. close to intersection of Grimburgwal and Oudezijde Achterburgwal. Bulldozer that was used to destroy the barricades is visible. Police is throwing all of the barricade material into the canal. | 3 videos | 2024-05-12T16:21:37.333Z |
| 170 | Utrecht | 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z | 130 | 01:30 | Wittenvrouwenstraat 19, vlakbij Chop Chop | Injuries; Police Violence | Beste allemaal, Goed dat jullie een archief willen opbouwen met staatsgeweld. In de bijlagen stuur ik een filmpje, waarin te zien is dat ik geslagen word met wapenstok door de ME. Verder stuur ik foto's met datum erop van mijn wonden en kneuzingen. Ik ben een student in Utrecht en deed mee aan het protest bij Drift 25. Ik sta in het filmpje in de frontline. Ik heb een capuchon op en draag een groen rugtas. Ik word geslagen door de agent met een gezichtsbedekking en de andere agent aan de linker kant (had een pet en microfoon op). Ik kreeg klappen op mijn hoofd, bovenarm en linker schouder. Het geweld gebeurde in Utrecht aan de Wittevrouwenstraat 19, vlakbij Chinees afhaalrestaurant Chop Chop. Tijd: rond 1.30 am in de nacht van 8 op 9 mei. Wat er op het filmpje te zien is is maar een fractie, want er werd veel meer geslagen en geduwd, vooral door die agent met een microfoon, pet op en onbedekt gezicht. Hopelijk wordt met dit bewijsmateriaal iets gedaan. Mocht er vragen zijn of verdere informatie nodig is, hoor ik graag. Met vriendelijke groet, | 5 images; 1 video | 2024-05-12T16:25:04.262Z |
| 171 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 5/6pm | 17:00-18:00 | Binnengasthuis | Barricades; Police Violence; Demonstrations; Eviction | AT5 LIVESTREAM: 17:00-20:00: Once some of the police had made their way across the barricade, the rest of the police formed a line in between the support demo and the barricade. They start shoving the closest demonstrators back into the crowd and hitting them with shields and batons.As demonstrators step towards the barricade they are instantly hit with batons (against their legs and faces.) On the left side of the line one police officer is using his shield and pushing more aggressively than the rest, repeatedly hitting one demonstrator in the face.There is no space for them to move away (and this is obvious, a crowd cannot move that quickly anyway ) and as demonstrators step in front of other demonstrators, or a pushed by the crowd, or try and gesture to the cops to stop pushing (as the demonstrators clearly have no space to move away) the police shove with their shields using exert force. They also punch demonstrators or push them with their hands. A middle-aged person is seen with their arms in the air and making no attempt to push back against the police, they continue to shove and push her with their shields. other demonstrators come in front of her to try and protect them. Some police officers also start to hit the demonstrators with their batons, some demonstrators are hit in the head, others punched in their chests . The police push the final few demonstrators behind the line of officers formed, still the demonstrators remain peaceful - many are still shouting and gesturing for the police to calm down and to stop pushing so aggressively, no demonstrators push the police. the police now lean into the crowd with even more force. attempting to remove the support demo as far away from the barricade as possible. As the demonstrators trys to hold their ground, police are repeatedly hitting the closest demonstrators in the face with batons/hands/shields. As they get the demonstrators into a more narrow space the police can push back in a formation with 2/3 lines of police rather than one. This is when they manage to move the crowd further and further away, continuing to hit demonstrators with their batons and shields. (15+ police officers) | 1 video | 2024-05-12T16:54:38.034Z |
| 172 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 1755 | 17:55 | Langebrugsteeg, ter hoogte van the Mill Diamonds. | Hi, Mijn naam is [omitted], ik ben student aan de UvA en was op 08/05/2024 bij het solidariteitsprotest voor Palestina en de studenten op Oudemanhuispoort. Ik was om 17:55 ter plaatse op de Langebrugsteeg ter hoogte van The Mill Diamonds. Onze weg naar Oudemanhuispoort was geblokkeerd door ME om aan de hand van een oproep van een vriendin op gepaste afstand te komen protesteren voor Palestina, ter solidariteit van onze mede-studenten die aan de andere kant actie aan het voeren waren en tegen het geweld waarmee de Oudemanhuispoort plots ontruimd werd. Wij waren vredig aan het protesteren en zijn ondanks onze onvrede ook aan de kant gegaan voor passerende politiebusjes toen deze vanuit het Rokin naar Oudemanhuispoort reden en terug via deze steeg. De groep werd steeds groter en wij waren luid aan het protesteren zodat onze mede-studenten ons konden horen en onze onvrede over de aanpak van de UvA en het politiegeweld wat wij van vrienden live meekregen via social media bij Oudemanhuispoort duidelijk was. De meegestuurde beelden die ik heb gemaakt waren van 18:33 vinden nog steeds plaats op diezelfde locatie van de Langebrugsteeg. Wij waren als grotere groep meer aan het inschikken. De ME riep iets om naar ons, maar het was niet verstaanbaar boven het protest uit en zij hebben de boodschap niet herhaald. Opeens pushten zij naar ons toe. Door de beperkte ruimte op de brug stonden wij hierdoor klem en konden mijn vrienden en ik niet goed naar achteren. Bepaalde agenten gingen opeens dreigend staan met hun stokken en klappen uitdelen aan mensen die op geen enkele manier probeerde terug te duwen of hen iets aan te doen. Een meisje links van ons stond alleen toevallig naast een ME agent en hij geeft haar halfslachtig zonder reden een klap op haar zij. Wij stonden op dit punt, en mijn vrienden en alle demonstranten die wij konden zien gedurende de rest van het protest, alleen maar te protesteren door te staan, in onze handen te klappen en leuzen uit te roepen met de groep ter ondersteuning van Palestina en onze mede-studenten maar werden zonder duidelijke reden opeens geconfronteerd met ME die dreigend met honden dichterbij kwam en ons naar achter duwden waarbij klappen uit werden gedeeld. Ik ben gestopt met filmen toen wij te nauw gedrukt werden en veilig weg wilden komen rond 18:37. Wel heb ik nog meerdere mensen klappen zien krijgen terwijl zij ons van de brug het Rokin op jaagden, waarbij meerdere mensen klappen kregen op hun hoofd en in hun rug terwijl ze al instructies aan het volgen waren. Wij zijn toen op het Rokin ter hoogte van Spui gaan staan. Hier heb ik nog, beperkt, ondersteuning geboden bij eerste hulp van een jongen die hevig bloedde uit zijn hoofd en die oprecht vreesde voor zijn leven door de hoeveelheid bloed. Dit was rond 18:45, hier heb ik zelf geen beelden van. Toen wij ME om eerste hulp vroegen en 112 belden kregen wij geen hulp en werd ons verteld zelf naar OLVG Oosterpark te gaan omdat de mensen nog bij bewustzijn waren en dat zij geen ambulances gingen sturen omdat er ergens in de buurt al twee zouden zijn. Waar werd ons niet verteld. Later kwam nog een push van de ME waardoor de mensen die hulp boden en hulp zochten bij de door demonstranten zelf-opgezette eerste hulp werden overweldigd door de groep en werden wij zonder waarschuwing door de ME wederom heftig naar achteren geduwd via het Spui richting de Kalverstraat, rond 19:40. Ook zag ik later toen wij omgelopen waren via de Dam en terug op het Rokin waren de ME zonder waarschuwing of duidelijke oorzaak een heftige push naar voren doen rond 20:40 naar een groep waarbij tot tweemaal toe over een hek door ME pepperspray rakelings de groep in werd gespoten. Van de bovenstaande situaties heb ik zelf helaas geen beelden, ik hoop dat anderen die wel voor jullie hebben. Ik heb de beelden die ik heb bijgevoegd, ook als ik zelf denk dat ze misschien niet even nuttig zijn omdat er geen direct politiegeweld te zien is op alle beelden. Misschien kunnen jullie er toch iets mee. Als ik meer kan betekenen qua hulp hoor ik het heel graag. Als jullie inderdaad wel zo veel mogelijk kunnen anonimiseren voor de veiligheid van mede-demonstranten zou dit heel fijn zijn. Ik zag ook foto's rondgaan van de eerste hulp situaties waar mijn eigen gezicht ongeblurd op staat. Als jullie deze beelden delen zou ik blurren erg waarderen uit voorzorg. Succes en dankjulliewel voor jullie werk, hopelijk helpt dit in enige zin kunnen we met zijn allen iets doen tegen dit zinloze en onnodige staatsgeweld. [omitted] | 6 videos | 2024-05-12T17:01:00.012Z | |
| 173 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Vanaf 17u tot 20u | 17:00-20:00 | Oudemanhuispoort, Rokin | Demonstrations; Funny / Memes; Barricades; Police Violence | First videos were made when the police started to remove people from the barricade at the east side of the canal. This was before the bulldozers came. Then we moved the other side of the canal. Here a police van rode into the crowd. After a while the police started to remove the people there and were hitting people with their sticks. After we got were removed from oudemanhuispoort by the police we went to rokin. I will send the media by email via wetransfer. It doesnt seem to upload here. I will name the title: videos May 8th, oudemanhuispoort and rokin. | 1 video | 2024-05-12T17:03:38.700Z |
| 174 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 5.30pm | 17:30 | Near Oudemanhuispoort & Binnengasthuis | Police Violence | 2 videos | 2024-05-12T17:08:42.230Z | |
| 175 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 8.10pm | 20:10 | Binnengasthuis | Demonstrations; Police Violence; Barricades; Eviction | Hello, I filmed this just about 10 minutes ago. Live footage from the AT5, but this is clear police violence. Free Palestine! | 1 video | 2024-05-12T17:12:05.104Z |
| 176 | Utrecht | 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z | Night of the 8th 1:40-2:04AM | 01:40-02:04 | Wittenvrouwenstraat | Demonstrations | Hey, Saw your message from Instagram from the Instagram dutchscholarsforpalestine. I hereby would like to share the content that I have from the protest on Wednesday 8 of May at Utrecht University (Wittenvrouwenstraat) at 1:40 AM and 2:04 AM. On some video’s, faces of protestors are clearly visible. But I don’t know who these people are so I would kindly ask you to either blur their faces or not use these videos publicly but simply as archives, as I do not have their consent in that regard. If possible I would also ask you to keep me as a source anonymous. Thank you and thank you for your input for standing up for humanity and peaceful protesting! | 3 videos | 2024-05-12T17:14:19.538Z |
| 177 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 5 | 17:00 | Binnengasthuis | Barricades; Police Violence; Eviction | 1 video | 2024-05-12T17:16:16.044Z | |
| 178 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 5.30pm | 17:30 | Binnengasthuis | Eviction; Police Violence; Barricades | Hi! I heard mostly you need is videos of police violence. I'm not sure if those photos will help as they mostly don't directly capture the violence but I hope they can help. All taken between 17:30 and 18:15 May 8. Outside Oudemanhuispoort. Best, | 6 images | 2024-05-12T17:18:38.675Z |
| 179 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-06T00:00:00Z | Afternoon after 18:00 | 18:00 | Roeterseiland Campus | Speech; Demonstrations; Barricades | Some photos of the Staff Solidarity Demonstration and the encampment at the time | 18 images; 2 videos | 2024-05-12T17:19:55.943Z |
| 181 | Utrecht | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | Afternoon after 18:00 | 18:00 | Drift | Demonstrations; Speech | Some photos and videos of the encampment in Utrecht. | 13 images; 2 videos | 2024-05-12T17:23:59.095Z |
| 182 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 05:37 | 05:37 | Politie Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Zuid | Police Violence; Police Station | We were on the bus and this guy is being pushed by this agent aggressively. Afterwards, the cops said ga terug je eigen land (go back to your country) to him which replied by saying fucking racist and they brutally attacked him and arrested him again in the arrestees bus. | 2 videos | 2024-05-12T17:24:49.942Z |
| 183 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 5.30pm | 17:30 | Binnengasthuis | Barricades; Police Violence; Eviction | Attached are two screen recordings of AT5's livestream, depicting the brutal police violence at the moment the encampment was evicted. In solidarity, [omitted] | 2 videos | 2024-05-12T17:25:29.479Z |
| 184 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | From 17:19 until 18:20 | 17:19-18:20 | On the corner of Grimburgwal, Oudezijds Achterburgwal | Police Violence | At 17:07 I heard the police announce the demonstration was cancelled, but it was hard to hear what they were saying over the loud cheering an booing of the crowd. At 17:16 they announced again that the demonstration was cancelled. At 17:19 (see IMG_4509.MOV) the police started entering the crowd of people, hitting them with batons, forcing the crowd to move from the Grimburgwal to the Oudezijds Achterburgwal. Because there was a large crowd of people it was difficult to move or get away and in certain moments people were pressed against each other, but the police was still pushing and hitting us with batons (see IMG_4512.MOV and IMG_4513.MOV). I didn't see anyone in front of the barricade use violence against the police, except later throwing some fruits. Most people had their hands up in the air and were chanting, as did I. Around this point I was hit in the chest by a police baton. At some point the police used pepperspray or teargas at the crowd, but I didn't document that. At 17:35 a demonstrator climbed onto the bulldozer at the Grimburgwal and was violently taken down by the police (see IMG_4515.MOV). At 18:20 the police walked through people sitting on the ground where I saw the police hitting a person. | 6 videos | 2024-05-12T17:28:44.702Z |
| 185 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | Around 5.40pm | 17:40 | Weesperstraat | Police Violence; Demonstrations | This is taken on May 7 afternoon around 17:40 on Weesperstraat(probably the intersection with Nieuwe Keizersgracht) Police trying to close down the street. At least one of the people trying to pass through got hit by a baton. | 1 video | 2024-05-12T17:28:52.901Z |
| 186 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 1719 | 17:19 | Grimburgwal bridge | To whom it may concern. Unnecessary use of force. We were just getting out of the way. Police didn’t seem to have identity numbers either. Filmed on Wednesday the 8th at 17:19 on the Grimburgwal bridge. | 1 video | 2024-05-12T17:29:32.891Z | |
| 187 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 19.00 tot 00.00 | 19:00-00:00 | Rokin, Metro daarna naar Rembrandtplein | Speech; Outside Agitators; Demonstrations; Injuries; Barricades; Police Violence | I went with a friend, for a while things were chill i was mostly at the circle that was created where people where giving speeches. I decided to climb a pole and wave the Palestinian flag for a while. Then a comotion happened near Rokin metro elevator so i went there with some friends. I climbed up onto the metro elevator and waved the Palestinian vlag there aswell, a friend later joined me. We initiaded chants and called for people to stay peacefull. Later a group infront of us decided to open the barrier and charge at the police, i have clear footage of the ammoniak bottle hitting and spashing open in a police officers face, i dont know who threw it or what it was at the time. We decided to climb down and just as we got down the ME decided to charge, i didnt really decide to flee untill i saw them hitting people and women and kicking them to the ground. i got hit twice in the back by a officer and it ripped my jacket. I then went to a alleyway in rokin street where a group om ME with dogs decided to charge at us bringing 2 people to the ground kicking and hitting them and then leaving. I dont have footage of that sadly. Later got my bike and waved the Palestinian flag a bit more on the bike. Then went to Rembrandt, chilled a bit and left with some friends. De footage is probably not in order, i sent the footage via onedrive! Send an email if you have recieved the photo's, send one aswell if you havent! Mail: [omitted] | 2024-05-12T17:32:35.514Z | |
| 188 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 19:00 | 19:00 | Rokin 9, in between Scheltema Pull&Bear | Barricades; Police Violence | 1. Since the police violently broke up the Universities occupation, students and supporters of the student intifada went to Rokin to block a bus with arrested demonstrators. The blocking was non-violent. At one point a police van went through the crowd followed by ME. At the same time the police got out there sticks and started to violently push back the demonstrators. Some people panicked and ran off. | 1 video | 2024-05-12T17:34:04.890Z |
| 189 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | post eviction | Post Eviction | Rokin | Police Violence | Ik heb als street medic
gezorgd
voor een paar mensen achter de barricade en ze later daar weggehaald. Sommigen werden
opgehaald
door
een ambulance: - Eén met 3 grote builen op hun voorhoofd en bovenkant van hun hoofd van een wapenstok. Deze persoon had ook last van hun zicht. Het was wazig van zowel dichtbij als ver weg. Ik had ook het idee dat deze persoon soms een beetje wegviel. - Eén die op haar gezicht vlak naast haar oog werd geraakt door een wapenstok. Dat was erg opgezwollen en blauw. Haar oogwit was rood. Wellicht licht gescheurde oog socket. We nemen aan dat daar ook een hersenschudding bij was. Toen we haar initieel naar buiten brachten, mochten we niet bij haar komen om te kijken wat er met haar aan de hand was. - Eén die geraakt werd met een wapenstok op zijn neus. Zijn neus had een grote wond die matig bloedde. Vermoedelijk gebroken neus. (deze persoon werd opnieuw buiten de barricade neergehaald toen ik probeerde hem naar de zijkant te brengen en een ambulance te bellen. Op dat moment werd ik ook neergehaald en over de straat gesleept, waarbij mij werd verteld dat ik wist dat ik gearresteerd was, wat niet zo was omdat ik daar was als medic en we de gewonde mensen over de barricade naar de straat konden brengen, dus ik nam aan dat ik een ambulance kon bellen. Later werd mij verteld dat het een vergissing was en mocht ik gaan, maar mijn collega-medic werd gearresteerd en kwam pas vanmiddag naar buiten.) Mijn collega-medic zorgde ook voor deze persoon: - Eén persoon had geen duidelijke verwondingen. Was bovenop de bulldozer hoorden we van andere aanwezigen. Toen mijn collega bij deze persoon aankwam, was diegene al geboeid met handen op de rug en buiten bewustzijn. Het was moeilijk om hun pols te vinden in de nek. Toen heeft mijn collega gevraagd aan de agent om de handboeien af te doen. Dit duurde 5 minuten voordat dat werd goedgekeurd. Toen hebben we de persoon in de stabiele zijligging gelegd. Toen kon de pols gevonden worden in hun pols. Het was moeilijk om hun ademhaling te voelen via hun rug of voor het gezicht. Toen heeft mijn collega in paniek aan de agenten gevraagd om een ambulance. Daar kwam initieel het antwoord op dat ze druk waren. Toen mijn collega dit aangaf zei een van de romeo's ""ik geef haar 5 tikken dan weten we of het echt is"". Er werd door de politie gezegd dat de ambulance er toch niet doorheen zou komen. Toen mijn collega voorstelde om de persoon erheen te dragen, mocht dat ook niet. Uiteindelijk na 10 minuten smeken (waarschijnlijk ook door de aanwezigheid van de amnesty observer) werd de ambulance gebeld. Bij het aangeven dat deze persoon waarschijnlijk in shock was, was de reactie ""kijk maar uit dat jij niet in shock raakt"". Het ambulancepersoneel heeft bij aankomst heeft vrij weinig gedaan en wilde met mij niet praten in eerste instantie. De persoon kwam toen langzaam bij bewustzijn door te praten en water in hun nek te doen. Later kon de persoon rechtop zitten en konden emergency blankets worden omgedaan. De persoon was op dat moment nog erg verward en kon geen vragen beantwoorden. Er leek weinig teken van leven te zijn. Deze persoon is toen door twee romeo's meegesleept naar de andere kant van het kanaal en gearresteerd. Op dat moment is ook mijn collega gearresteerd. De derde medic zorgde voor deze 3 mensen binnen de barricade: - Eén werd geslagen in het kruis, bovenbeen en bovenarm met een wapenstok. Deze persoon had veel pijn. - Eén werd geslagen op bovenarm en hand met een wapenstok - Eén werd met pepperspray bespoten Nadat ik zelf werd laten gaan en de personen die ik had geholpen buiten de politielinie had begeleid, ging ik helpen bij de EHBO-post op de Rokin. Daar heb ik geholpen: - 4 mensen die met pepperspray waren bespoten - Eén persoon die een agent in de knie schopte en toen een vuistslag in het gezicht kreeg. Ze zouden hun neus kunnen hebben gebroken. Ze hadden twee laesies boven en onder één oog. Toen ik ze zag, werd de helft van hun gezicht paars. - Eén aantal mensen kwamen naar ons toe voor ijs voor wapenstokslagen op benen en armen. Ik heb deze aantallen niet geteld. Een vierde medic die mee liep verzorgde ook nog: - Eén persoon kreeg een schild in het gezicht. Leasie op de lip. Bloed weggespoeld. Er waren nog een aantal ingesprongen mensen bij onze post op Rokin. Van hen is het me onduidelijk wie ze hebben verzorgd toen ik nog bij binnengasthuisterrein was en ook toen ik in het protest rondliep om in te springen. Verder is er nog een persoon behandeld door een arts van HpA CentrumOost. Deze heeft een waarneemverslag gemaakt van iemand die klappen met een wapenstok heeft gekregen op het hoofd, arm, twee keer op een been, rug en hand. Als laatste is vanmorgen een minderjarig iemand vrij gekomen waar wij van uitgaan dat deze wellicht ook met geweld is gearresteerd. |
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| 190 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 19:08 | 19:08 | Rokin | Demonstrations | After being pushed back by the police while blocking a bus with arrested demonstrants, everyone walked towards other vans saying: ‘Amsterdam is saying no to genocide’. | 1 video | 2024-05-12T17:38:00.827Z |
| 191 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 5pm | 17:00 | Near Oudemanhuispoort | Police Violence | 1 video | 2024-05-12T17:38:42.660Z | |
| 192 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 20.15 | 20:15 | Rokin | Speech | A speech given by one of the demonstrators about the brutal police violence against peaceful demonstrators. | 1 video | 2024-05-12T17:43:44.776Z |
| 193 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Between 8pm and 9pm | 20:00-21:00 | Rokin, Dam Side | Police Violence | 1 video | 2024-05-12T17:49:51.523Z | |
| 194 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around time of eviction | Eviction | Oudezijds Achterburgwal | Hoi, Ik stuur hierbij een foto van mijn gekneusde ribben. Ik stond voor de barricade bij Oudemanhuispoort als support-demonstrant, en werd beknuppeld toen de politie aanviel, terwijl ik mijn handen in de lucht had. Daarnaast ben ik ook te zien op 0:33 op deze instagram post: [omitted] Ik probeerde de instructies van de politie te volgen, maar die waren onduidelijk, en ik werd toen vastgegrepen en tegen andere demonstranten gegooid. Ik heb geen geweld tegen de politie geprobeerd te plegen, zelfs niet om mijzelf te verdedigen. Ik hoop dat dit behulpzaam is, en ik werk graag mee als ik nog iets kan betekenen. Vriendelijke groet, [omitted] | 1 image | 2024-05-12T17:50:24.929Z | |
| 195 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 5pm | 17:00 | Oudemanhuispoort | Injuries | I was in the group at the OMHP encampment that got locked in near barricade A, which was the last to leave. Here are the backs of my knees after being beaten. I was also hit in the elbow badly and dragged by the hair. Amnesty took video evidence of these actions, and it was livestreamed by various people | 2 images | 2024-05-12T17:51:14.858Z |
| 196 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | eviction | Eviction | Oudezijds Achterburgwal | Police Violence | I was at the protests this Wednesday and got clubbed over the head while walking away after trying to help someone off the floor. In the video you can see there’s a girl in a blue coat in the front to the left. About three cops were beating her and she was kind of frozen. They weren’t trying to arrest her or anything they were just singling her out and beating her. She ends up on the ground at some point [omitted] Thank you guys so much for archiving stuff like this. I feel dehumanized stupid and weak after this because they made us feel like animals, but I have no regrets. I did not engage with the police in any way. They actively pursued us to terrorize us that day. We were not provoking them. The only moment that could be perceived as “provocation” by the people who will like to make us out to be criminals is the moment [omitted]. I looked back at one of the cops and just caught a glimpse of eyecontact. I was furious, seeing these three big bullies surround a girl no bigger than my own little sister. But i did nothing except look at him with disgust, and apparently that was enough of a threat for him to hit me in the side of my head with a baton. | 1 image; 2 videos | 2024-05-12T17:52:46.915Z |
| 197 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 21:30 | 21:00 | Rokin | Police Violence | I was standing in front of the police. They were intimidating us with their batons but we weren’t violent at all. We were chanting “we are peaceful, what are you?” And slowly backing away since they were approaching us. Then of them hit me on my back while I was walking away. I told him to stop hitting me and he hit me again. | 2 videos | 2024-05-12T18:51:24.085Z |
| 198 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 8pm | 20:00 | Rokin, BG1 Side | Police Violence; Demonstrations | Hey, this was today at Rokin. Stay safe, free Palestine. ❤️ | 1 video | 2024-05-12T19:03:43.879Z |
| 199 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17.3 | 17:30 | Groenburgwal 18d | The Barricade / Uva Occupation; Police Violence | The police hitting the students and protesters at the bridge by the barricade. | 2 videos | 2024-05-12T19:05:11.951Z |
| 200 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 9.30pm | 21:30 | Rokin, BG1 Side | Police Violence; Demonstrations | Footage of the police attacking with no physical provocation. AT5 live stream recording | 1 video | 2024-05-12T19:08:15.435Z |
| 201 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 10om | 22:00 | Beginning of Amstel | Police Violence | Towards the end of the demonstration on Rokin on Wednesday 8th. Demonstrators walked peacefully and police officers attacked a girl walking. | 1 video | 2024-05-12T19:14:09.766Z |
| 202 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 10pm | 22:00 | Between Rokin and Amstel | Demonstrations; Police Violence | 1 video | 2024-05-12T19:16:35.134Z | |
| 203 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 4.30pm-5pm | 16:30-17:00 | Binnengasthuis | Barricades; Police Violence; Eviction | attached images of the unnecessary and violent behavior of the Amsterdam police at the UVA encampment. | 1 video | 2024-05-12T19:22:38.208Z |
| 204 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 9.30-10pm | 21:30-22:00 | Rokin, Dam Side | Police Violence | 1 video | 2024-05-12T19:25:46.624Z | |
| 205 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 8.30-9pm | 20:30-21:00 | Rokin, Dam Side | Injuries | 2 images | 2024-05-12T19:26:52.000Z | |
| 206 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 4.30pm | 16:30 | Rokin, BG1 Side | Police Violence | 1 video | 2024-05-12T19:29:18.439Z | |
| 207 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 2351 | 23:51 | Near Herengracht 510, Rembrandt Plein | Demonstrations | Goedemiddag geadresseerde, Deze video is gemaakt op Woensdag 8 mei 2024, om 11:51pm, Ter hoogte van de Herengracht 510. Te zien is hoe een relatief kleine march met veel jonge mensen vanuit Rembrandtplein de herengracht op loopt, snel tegengehouden wordt door meerdere M.E. Busjes, en daarna achternagezeten wordt tot de groep weer naar Rembrandtplein is gedreven. Mensen die niet snel genoeg weg konden rennen werden geslagen, ook te zien is hoe een persoon op de grond viel en belaagd werd. Ik hoop dat deze informatie behulpzaam was. Mvg, [omitted] | 1 video | 2024-05-12T19:43:26.283Z |
| 208 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 1937 | 19:37 | Rokin | Police Violence | 8th of May, 19:37, Rokin riot police attacking people at the support demo after they bulldozed the oudemanhusipoort encampment and terrorized the supporters out. we were sitting in at rokin and chanting peacefully. the cops would start hitting and dragging whenever they got the chance. | 1 video | 2024-05-12T19:46:37.621Z |
| 209 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 3am | 03:00 | Roeterseiland Campus, Outside encampment | Police Violence; Eviction; Barricades | 1 video | 2024-05-12T19:56:48.784Z | |
| 210 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 3am | 03:00 | Roeterseiland Campus, Outside encampment | Barricades; Police Violence; Eviction | 1 video | 2024-05-12T19:58:27.670Z | |
| 211 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 0258-0330 | 02:58-03:30 | Roeterseiland Campus | Barricades; Police Violence; Eviction | 02:58 – bulldozer @ right barricade 20240507_025838.mp4 03:14 – bulldozer @ left barricade 20240507_031421.mp4 03:19 – bulldozer @ left barricade 20240507_031748.mp4 03:20 – charge @ left barricade 20240507_031929.mp4 03:25 – bulldozer @ right barricade 20240507_032445.mp4 03:28 – beating up sitting students @ bridge 20240507_032836.mp4 | 6 videos | 2024-05-12T20:10:01.557Z |
| 212 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 1725-1831 | 17:25-18:31 | Binnengasthuis | Demonstrations; Police Violence | May 8th, Binnengasthuisterrein 17:25 – violent crowd dispersal @ support protest 20240508_172248.mp4 17:37 – violent kettling 20240508_173703.mp4 18:31 – still being kettled [photo] 20240508_183132.jpg I wasn’t able to film but during the kettling they crushed us multiple times. | 1 image; 2 videos | 2024-05-12T20:12:21.447Z |
| 213 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Between 4 pm and 10 pm | 16:00-22:00 | Rokin | Barricades | As the students encampment on oudemanhuisport was being broken down by the police with bouldozers And after the initial retaliation of the police, the protesters gathered again at Rokin | 5 images | 2024-05-12T20:50:02.029Z |
| 214 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 17:00 | 17:00 | Oudemanhuispoort | Police Violence | Riot police charged the arm-linked, peaceful group of students once they entered the encampment. Was hit multiple times (5 +/- 1) by baton on shoulders, face, and head. Trying to help someone who was violently knocked to the groud and at risk of being trampled by people forced back by the police charge, three riot officers surrounded and beat me. A knee to the head, a baton to the head and ribs. I was pushed over, but managed to get back up quickly and help the person in danger from the conditions the riot police created, not without taking another baton hit to the elbow. Having breached all other barricades, riot police kettled and trapped the groups into a single corner, nearly causing a crushing-incident on multiple occacions. Special police then violently ripped people out of the crowd, usually by the hair (sometimes targeting specific individuals, and other times those the nearest). An officer from the special unit full force punched me and someone next to me in the face when we tried to protect the person they were violently dragging out. In the meantime, riot police were at times ignoring pleads for medical attention within the kettled crowd and those within the occupied building: but eventually (maybe 20+ minutes after first call for medical attention) it looked like people who needed help were allowed (this, though, I cannot confirm). After some 45+ minutes after being trapped in that corner, we were allowed to spread out 'more', after which the special police - utilizing photos and videos on their phones - continued to violently target specific individuals, often landing full-force punches on people nearby said individuals. After some time, this violence stopped, and we waited in that space - surrounded by a wall behind us and riot police enclosing us - until we were eventually told that we will be escorted to Rokin and let go. | 1 image | 2024-05-12T22:03:10.825Z |
| 215 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-06T00:00:00Z | Monday until wednesday | Monday until wednesday | Roeterseiland Campus, Oudemanhuispoort | Barricades; Demonstrations | No big incident, just pictures i took over the days at the encampments and protests :) | 1 archive | 2024-05-12T22:55:29.973Z |
| 216 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | After 16 | 16:00 | Rokin, Munt | Pepperspray; Tear Gas; Drone; Demonstrations; Police Violence | 2 images; 3 videos | 2024-05-13T01:53:15.215Z | |
| 217 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 1830 | 18:30 | Rokin | Injuries; Police Violence | Dear, I experienced police violence last Wednesday at the intersection of Rokin and Langebrugsteeg around 1830. I've attached my account (in Dutch) of the events which unfolded. Let me know if you also need them in English. I've also attached documentation of my head injury. But I also wanted to notify you that I received the following message: ""Hello lovely folks, BNN-VARA's BOOS is going to make an episode about how the police treats protestors. It will range from severe police violence to refusing to facilitate demonstrations. For this, they are looking for people with experiences that want to share that experience with them to give them an overview (you dont have to be in the episode for it, they just want to get a good gist, and research if there is a difference between different movements) If you are someone of know someone with extreme experiences please email the story to josephine.mensink@bnnvara.nl And please do so, even if you are in doubt! Because boos has a huge reach and is able to create a lot of pressure on politicians and police to actually maybe change things a bit."" Maybe it is worthwhile contacting them when you have an overview of the amount of people wounded? Just wanted to pass on the information, as I myself only have heard about how much injuries have been caused by the brute force of the police. Comradely, [omitted] | 3 images; 1 video; 1 document | 2024-05-13T05:51:30.946Z |
| 218 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 1725 | 17:25 | Oudezijds Achterburgwal, Rokin | Police Violence; Injuries | Linked are a number of videos of police readily and arbitrarily using violence against people who have done absolutely nothing to receive it, at various points in the protest. On top of that I've also attached a picture of the police agent that, near the beginning of the police operation at UVA around 17:25 if I recall correctly personally started charging, macing and battering me after he ordered me to walk, after which I fully complied and walked (which was already difficult enough, as the police had cornered us on both sides and were both telling us to walk, which made fleeing entirely impossible), held my hands up and repeatedly said I was walking, after which he just started macing me with his baton entirely unprompted. He managed to hit squarely my elbow several times, making my left arm basically unusable as it would swell over the course of the day and result on excruciating pain when used for basically anything and would only be treated later at the heroic First Aid responders stationed at the Rokin. Regardless of that treatment the pain would continue to get worse as time went on and would later be hit again (alongside my other arm and the back of my head) when the ME started violently chasing us out of the Rokin in the evening, running at us while constantly and haphazardly swinging their clubs at us as we were running away from them. The videos I took clearly show that the police were completely willing to mace, push and kick people as they were sitting on the floor, had their hands up or otherwise posed absolutely no risk to their safety. | 2 images; 4 videos | 2024-05-13T06:02:40.283Z |
| 219 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | Roeterseiland Campus | Eviction | The police threw away tents, structures, barrication materials etc related to the occupation that was left behind after the eviction. Unsure as to whether all the water and food also thrown away.    | 2024-05-13T06:38:19.910Z | |||
| 220 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | afternoon | Afternoon | Rokin | Injuries; Police Violence | Riot police charged the arm-linked, peaceful group of students once they entered the encampment. Was hit multiple times (5 +/- 1) by baton on shoulders, face, and head. Trying to help someone who was violently knocked to the ground and at risk of being trampled by people forced back by the police-charge, three riot officers surrounded and beat me. A knee to the head, a baton to the head and ribs. I was pushed over, but managed to get back up quickly and help the person in danger from the conditions the riot police created, not without taking another baton hit to the elbow. Having breached all other barricades, riot police kettled and trapped the groups into a single corner, nearly causing a crushing-incident on multiple occasions. Special police then violently ripped people out of the crowd, usually by the hair (sometimes targeting specific individuals, and other times those the nearest). An officer from the special unit full force punched me and someone next to me in the face when we tried to protect the person they were violently dragging out. In the meantime, riot police were at times ignoring pleads for medical attention within the kettled crowd and those within the occupied building: but eventually (maybe 20+ minutes after first call for medical attention) it looked like people who needed help were allowed (this, though, I cannot confirm). After some 45+ minutes after being trapped in that corner, we were allowed to spread out 'more', after which the special police - utilizing photos and videos on their phones - continued to violently target specific individuals, often landing full-force punches on people nearby said individuals. After some time, this violence stopped, and we waited in that space - surrounded by a wall behind us and riot police enclosing us - until we were eventually told that we would be escorted to Rokin and let go. Please censor face and tattoos. | 7 images | 2024-05-13T06:44:03.439Z |
| 221 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Afternoon | Afternoon | Oudezijds Achterburgwal | Eviction; Demonstrations | 7 videos | 2024-05-13T06:49:21.482Z | |
| 222 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 4:46 AM | 04:46 | Roeterseiland Campus | Eviction; The Barricade / Uva Occupation; Barricades | Two videos containing night time footage of dangerous bulldozing of barricades by the police. Both filmed from inside the occupation aka facing the inside of the barrication. If facing towards the university building, the video is showing the destruction of the right hand side barricades. Video 1, shows around 5 people standing on the barricades as the bulldozer approaches. As the bulldozer procedes, breaking open the barricades (wood/planks/metal railing) it becomes too dangerous for people to stand on it, so people jump off while the barricades are being broken apart. The bulldozer shows no intent to stop, irregardless of people on/close to the barrication. People standing on the barricades are visible to the person driving the bulldozer. Video 2 shows violent bulldozing of barricades with occupiers distanced from the structures as they are broken down, police line then approaches from the.   *italic text* | 2024-05-13T06:53:55.316Z | |
| 223 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | Roeterseiland Campus, Bridge | Eviction; Head Injury; Police Violence; The Barricade / Uva Occupation | The video taken at the 'end of the encampment', is showing nighttime/early morning footage of police violence on the bridge. It shows 4 police people continously hitting a small number of students with their battons. Almost always at the same time. The police people are standing swinging their batons down at the students who are sitting in front of the barricades on the bridge that connectes the campuses. The police push away or drag the students one by one off the bridge away from the encampment site. They remove around 6 or 7 people in total. | 1 video | 2024-05-13T07:20:28.619Z | ||
| 224 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17:22 | 17:22 | Oudezijds Achterburgwal | Barricades | This was the moment the police charged the barricades. People in front of the barricades were pushed aside and a few people got stuck.Thry got beaten by ME. The footage isn't really clear, but it's something | 1 video | 2024-05-13T07:25:25.771Z |
| 225 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 16.3 | 16:3 | Oudemanhuispoort | Eviction; Barricades; Police Violence; Demonstrations | Around 16:00/16:30 the police got the order to clear the barricades with a bulldozer truck. From the left in this video, the ME came with around 40 people, closing in all the peaceful demonstrators supporting the occupation from the outside. These people chose to use their right to demonstrate, but without taking risks. The police gave them two warnings shouting from a vehicle, which wasn’t clearly heard. Then when the ME started walking towards the people, they started hitting people, even the ones who could not get out of the way fast enough: it were too many people and too small of a canal (Oudezijds Achterburgwal). There was also the danger of falling in. This video filmed it from the other side, from the BG-terrain, and shows the violence towards the peaceful protestors. Peaceful people are injured without valid reasons. | 1 video | 2024-05-13T07:47:03.793Z |
| 226 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 9pm (?) | 21:00 | Rokin, going toward Rembrantplein | Police Violence | This was at the Rokin protest, after the police had started to make the protesters leave. There was a LOT of unecessary violence. And as we were leaving I saw a policeman kick a girl in the spine. A girl who was peaceful and who was, most importantly, complying with the police in that she was walking away from Rokin. This video shows clear and extreme violence against someone already complying with police demands. I only regret that I did not go up to her after to tell her that I have it all on video and that she can file a report. I hope that maybe through you she is able to find this video. | 1 video | 2024-05-13T08:03:54.059Z |
| 227 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 9pm (?) | 21:00 | Rokin, going toward Rembrantplein | Police Violence | Police was super violent to protestors leaving Rokin. I also got beaten with a friend of mine. They charged at us from the back and while we were walking away and moving to the side to let them pass us. The policeman first hit my friend with a baton, luckily hitting her phone in her backpocket instead of her. In doing that he smashed her phone. Then he stopped to make sure he hit me as well. I do not have a video of this but I accidentally recorded a video where you can hear my friend right after describing what happened to a passerby who asked us what was going on. It's only voice not video. But you can hear that that is the voice of someone who has been hit (adrenaline, shakiness etc.). If you think it would be useful I also have that. | 1 video | 2024-05-13T08:08:10.701Z |
| 228 | Utrecht | 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z | 1.41 am | 01:41 | Drift 25, solidarity demonstration that had just moved towards the intersection of the Driftbrug-Wittevrouwenstraat-Voorstraat-Plompentorengracht | Demonstrations; Police Violence | Right before I started filming,the police announced once - only in Dutch - that if people would not take a step back, they would use violence against the protestors. People requested that this would be communicated in English as well, but they did not comply with this request. Instead, they started hitting people and eventually using pepper spray against the protestors. In the video, you can see that the riot police are spraying pepper spray at the protestors and hitting people. There was someone in the crowd who had a yellow jacket on which said EHBO (first aid) but he did not actually do anything. At one point he did say that people had to add a little bit of salt to the water they were using to flush people’s eyes. It was weird. Not much later, which I did not manage to film and I am not entirely sure at what time but it was before 2.25 am because by then I had left the protest at the Drift/Voorstraat, when people were helping the injured protestors, mainly the people had been pepper sprayed, out of nowhere, undercover police (also known as Romeo’s) who had infiltrated the demonstration disguised as protestors wearing keffiyehs, revealed themselves by grabbing their wapenstokken (batons) and they began to beat several of the students who were helping students who had been pepper sprayed and people who had been pepper sprayed, and dragged away at least two people in the direction of the rest of the riot police. While this was happening, people started to run and were panicking. There were still people lying on the street (who couldn’t see because of the pepper spray) and we focused on helping them get off the street, trying to prevent them from being trampled. Once we helped the people who were laying on the street to a relatively safer space, I left the protest, emotionally distressed and crying because it was so scary and terrifying what had happened. I would also appreciate it that if (parts of the) video end up being shared outside of DSP (for other purposes than archiving) that the volume is muted or the end is cut from it, I included it here for archiving purposes, but because you can hear my own voice and that of others quite clearly in the conversation about the supposed first aid worker, I don't want to endanger people. PS. I am not entirely sure whether the camera that is placed on the Driftbrug was already there during the protest, the black one, but there have always been several cameras in the Drift area, and thanks to the amount of light the riot police provided (which made it difficult to see what was happening behind them) any video footage those cameras may have filmed should be able to show what happened as well. | 1 video | 2024-05-13T08:09:22.316Z |
| 229 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around midnight | 00:00 | Near Rembrandt plein | Police Violence; Injuries | After the people got pushed out of the metro station Rokin we went to Rembrandtplein then around midnight we started moving out in a big group and when we went into one of the streets 2 riot police showed up and then they stood in a line we stopped marching and then the police started running towards us and started beating people up including I myself fell on the ground and got beaten by 2 police officer I got hit 2 times on the head one time on my arm and one time on my shoulder | 1 video | 2024-05-13T08:51:10.710Z |
| 230 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around midnight | 00:00 | Near Rembrandt plein | Police Violence; Injuries | I already sent a video before but when we were at Rembrandt plein we marched into one of the streets at the square and once we went 2 busses pulled up and the riot police came out and stood in line and then charged towards us me and and others got beaten up by the police I myself fell on the ground after one of the police officer hit me in the head after I fell down 2 officers started beating me while I am in the ground I had to tell him I am just a kid multiple times so the stopped beating me up I got hit 2 times on my head one time on my arm and one on my shoulder but the only really visible one is the one on my arm | 1 image; 1 video | 2024-05-13T08:59:24.695Z |
| 231 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z | around 6pm until around 8/9pm | 18:00-21:00 | UvA | Police | the meetup was at 6pm at the uva campus and i went there, when i arrived there were already a bunch of police cars even tho there weren’t that many people yet. we all got together and started the usual chants (such as “free free palestine” and so on). we got surrounded by cops who were not doing anything, but they were way too many compared to the number of disarmed people who were there. they were even using a drone and undercover police officers! we were peaceful but what were they? | 2 videos | 2024-05-13T09:40:38.258Z |
| 232 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 21:48 | 21:48 | Rokin 104 | Police Violence | The riot police started pushing the protesters out of Rokin. I could hear the barking of dogs. They hit us with batons and kicked, even though we were moving away in the direction they were pushing. | 3 videos | 2024-05-13T09:58:40.876Z |
| 233 | 2024-05-06T00:00:00Z | evening | Evening | Roeterseiland Campus, Nieuwe Achtergracht | Demonstrations; Peaceful Support | A night time video of the encampment and soli demo filmed from opposite Nieuwe Achtergracht (on the other side of the water/CREA side.) You can see large soli demo walking towards the encampent down Nieuwe Achtergracht, stopping at the left side barricades (if facing towards university buildings). | 1 video | 2024-05-13T11:02:25.029Z | |
| 234 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Rokin | Demonstrations; Police Violence; Peaceful Support | # Videos of police violence in Rokin at the beginning of the eviction ##### Support Demo @ Rokin - Riot Police instantly start hitting the demonstrators with their batons and shields, and pushing the demonstrators away from where they were standing. | 3 videos | 2024-05-13T11:04:35.234Z | ||
| 235 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | from 2 until 9 | 14:00-21:00 | Binnengasthuis, behind the barricade | Injuries; Barricades; Demonstrations; Police Violence | I mounted my marching snare drum at 2pm, when I walked in behind the barricades. I played along with some other drummers, accompanying the chants of fellow protesting comrades. A bit after 4pm, when the barricades fell under the pressure of bulldozers, I received a beating from a thug in skinny jeans and police top. He batoned me on my fingers and hands first and tossed my drumsticks into the canal. I kept getting pushed around and beaten, including on my head, neck, back, legs and hands. Thanks to my keffiyeh and hat, the higher located injuries are mild, but my legs and hands are swollen. I've seen a lot of blood in the encampment, including a head injury that was declined medical treatment. After being lined up and told we were all going to get arrested (turned out to be false), we left to go to Rokin, where I found another fellow drummer, who provided me with drumsticks so that I could continue protesting loud but peacefully. I got batoned another time during the charges on Rokin and I finally left after reaching Rembrandsplein. | 7 images | 2024-05-13T11:13:37.411Z |
| 236 | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | UvA | Peaceful Support; Police Violence; 🐷 | # Police Violence @ UvA 08.05.2024 #### Police ushering demonstrators away, it is not a large crowd. 6 demonstrators are walking close to the police. They are just walking not saying anything, one has their arms raised. One police officer hits one demonstrator with his baton, using extreme force, looks like it could have hit the demonstrators face. They continue walking and the same demonstrator is hit again by the same cop. | 1 video | 2024-05-13T11:15:53.854Z | |||
| 238 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | around 9pm | 21:00 | Vrankrijk | Regenerative; Demonstrations | De Sering provided warm lentil soup and bread at Vrankrijk on 8th of May to support demonstrators of the encampment | 2024-05-13T11:20:15.486Z | |
| 239 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 21:00 | 21:00 | Vrankrijk | Regenerative | De Sering provided warm lentil soup and bread for demonstrators at Vrankrijk | 6 images | 2024-05-13T11:25:13.749Z |
| 240 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17:00 | 17:00 | Oudezijds Achterburgwal, Oudemanhuispoort | Police Violence; Demonstrations | This video clearly shows how absurd the police brutality is. They are standing with more than 30 officers geared up like they have a war to fight. Across them is a group of around 10/15 students (some younger than 20 years old) standing next to each other, interlocking arms, nowhere to go because the police cornered them up to the barricade. This was a very scary moment. After a few moments the students start walking forward, i joined them, and the police went back for a moment, but soon they turn around and started screaming and beating us and getting us out. they proceed to lead us to anothet street, put a van in front of us so we cant see whats happening at oudemanhuispoort. i dotn have videos from the moment when they start beating us. The last videos show where they violently led us to, and we saw the bulldozers coming in and many many 🐷. | 4 videos | 2024-05-13T11:35:50.529Z |
| 241 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-06T00:00:00Z | 03:00 | 03:00 | Roeterseiland Campus, Encampment | Barricades | BULLDOZER ON THE BARRICADES | 2 videos | 2024-05-13T11:53:27.784Z |
| 242 | Utrecht | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 12:30 and onwards | 12:30-00:00 | Bestuursgebouw Utrecht University | Demonstrations; Speech | Photos and videos of the demonstration in front of the Administration Building in Utrecht University, 13/05/2024. | 7 images; 5 videos | 2024-05-13T12:36:29.787Z |
| 243 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-06T00:00:00Z | evening | Evening | Roeterseiland Campus, small bridge between Nieuwe Achtergracht, opposite campus | Eviction; Police Violence | All pictures and videos were recorded by residences of plantage muidergracht 20, the house opposite Nieuwe Achtergrach. The position enables clear views of the encampment and University bridge. A picture depicting someone standing on the roof of the Roeterseiland Campus. A picture of the encampent after eviction, assuming taken on the 7th. Only a few tents remain. Police in process of clearing the area. Video one/ bridge police violence, films 4 police people hitting students with their battons. They are standing as the students are sitting in front of the barricade. At the beginning of the video you can see a single student going back onto the bridge after they are removed and sitting down, a police officer hits them with their sheild and kicks them repeatedly before the student walks off the bridge. As the students sitting are removed/walk off the bridge some are hit with batons as they walk past police people. A single police officer hits a student who is walking off the bridge with their hands raised, another student's walking slows down, the police officer then rushes up to the student who is slowly walking off the bridge and hits them with their baton. Video two is filmed from above the bridge. In the video you can see the police dragging someone along the ground off the bridge (unclear if dragged by a hood or hair or backpack) and police people hitting students with their batons on their legs (around three people) as they walk off the bridge onto the opposite side of Nieuwe Achtergracht. | 2 images; 2 videos | 2024-05-13T12:44:14.472Z |
| 244 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | around 17:15 | 17:15 | Oudemanhuispoort, on the corner of Grimburgwal, Oudezijds Achterburgwal | Police Violence | I experienced an incidence of police violence on the 8th of May at around 17:15. I was standing in the area in front of the barricade on the intersection of the streets Grimburgwal and Oudezijds Achterburgwal with other support protesters. The riot police began coming towards us and pushing people to the side. With other protesters, we locked arms in front of the barricade and we were chanting ""We are peaceful, what are you?"" The ME approached and started clearing out the area. They began hitting us with the baton. They hit me on the left arm - which I was using to shield my head from the hits - on the upper arm, the forearm, and the hand. They pushed us into the barricade, not leaving any space to move anywhere yet kept hitting us until they pushed us into a corner and we eventually made our way into the Oudezijds Achterbrugwal street. | 3 images | 2024-05-13T12:45:40.034Z |
| 245 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17:20 | 17:20 | Binnengasthuis | Eviction; Barricades; Police Violence | Eviction of second encampment | 4 videos | 2024-05-13T12:51:05.078Z |
| 246 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z | around 21:00 | 21:00 | Spui | Demonstrations; Injuries; Police Violence | Violent riot cop repression and beating of peaceful students resulting in serious head injury for a protestor | 1 video | 2024-05-13T12:57:52.534Z |
| 247 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-06T00:00:00Z | afternoon | Afternoon | Roeterseiland Campus | Barricades | The encampment, from the beginning. Bonus a picture of a de sering volunteer carrying the pot over the barricade. | 5 images; 1 video | 2024-05-13T13:35:43.050Z |
| 248 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 14.3 | 14:03 | Roeterseiland Campus | Outside Agitators | UvA staff members (security) attack students | 1 video | 2024-05-13T14:06:28.357Z |
| 249 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17:21 | 17:21 | Binnengasthuis terrein, middle bridge | Police Violence | During the municipality debate on Friday May 10th, Mayor Femke Halsema stated: ""The support demonstration in front of the barricade was led away. A line was placed in front of it so that they could not go to the barricade. Those people were not the objects of violence. Those who became the objects of violence stood behind the barricades."" (Google Translate) This is simply untrue, and she was later corrected by council member Nilab Ahmadi, who witnessed the violence directed at the support demonstrators firsthand. I was there too, and took a video of this escalation. The ME made no effort to simply ""shove"" or ""push"" innocent support demonstrators in the direction they wanted. They immediately resorted to using batons and hitting students, all of whom were nonviolent and many of which were teenagers. | 1 video | 2024-05-13T14:36:37.538Z |
| 250 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 16:15 | 16:15 | Roeterseiland Campus | Police started attacking students unprovoked | 3 videos | 2024-05-13T14:50:48.142Z | |
| 251 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | Afternoon | Afternoon | UvA | Police Violence | 1 video | 2024-05-13T15:19:32.848Z | |
| 252 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 21.45 | 21:45 | Rokin 102 | Police Violence | On May 8, I attended the solidarity demonstration with the UvA student encampments in Rokin. Around 21:40, riot police were called in with the goal of ""clearing the square"". The area around the subway has been under construction and several spots to cross were inaccessible. When the riot police arrived, the crowd started running in the tight spaces around the subway and caused a stampede, putting other protestors already in great danger. As the crowd tried to enter the main street to leave, riot police began beating and grabbing people from the side path next to the metro.(I managed to take a short video before I was hit). People were beaten indiscriminately in their heads, arms and legs, even after falling to the ground. In my attempt to go to someone lying still on the road, I was hit 4 times on my left arm and right hip. (i attached photos of the bruises in case you create a complaint archive) It is clear from the markings on my body that I had my arms up and was standing with my back to the police, so by no means I could pose any danger. The police continued to push and hit people even though the crowd was not armed, most had their hands up and posed no threat. After we were pushed away from Rokin, I could barely walk and was fortunately able to get first aid from fellow demonstrators. My GP prescribed painkillers and told me I would have a fever for a few days because of the extent of the inflammation on my hip. Indiscriminate and disproportionate violence is used here in the ""democratic"" Netherlands against peaceful demonstrators who oppose the indiscriminate and disproportionate violence taking place in Palestine. | 3 images; 1 video | 2024-05-13T16:05:54.229Z |
| 253 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Daytime | Day | Oudezijds Voorburgwal 241 | Police Violence | Assault against a sleeping homeless person | 1 video | 2024-05-13T16:06:54.671Z |
| 254 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Day | Day | Oudezijds Voorburgwal 241 | Police Violence | Assault against a sleeping homeless person | 1 video | 2024-05-13T16:11:08.884Z |
| 255 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 16:22 | 16:22 | Roeterseiland Campus | Police Violence | Students standing in solidarity with those inside the campus were violently removed from the premises by riot cops | 1 video | 2024-05-13T16:13:45.384Z |
| 256 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 16:23 | 16:23 | Roeterseiland Campus | Police Violence | Police started pushing with demonstrators no where to go - when the crowd stopped due no space the police started batting on us at the front | 1 video | 2024-05-13T16:26:55.892Z |
| 257 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-06T00:00:00Z | evening | Evening | Roeterseiland Campus | Regenerative; The Barricade / Uva Occupation | The clips are collages of video recording of our revolution, inside and outside the encampment. Moments from red flare action inside encampment, building the barricades, installing posters, raising flags, a short clip of the static and walking soli demo that happened opposite the encampment in the evening of the 6th. 'We are all Gazawi' | 2 videos | 2024-05-13T16:36:10.476Z |
| 258 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 15:30 | 15:30 | Roeterseiland Campus | Police Violence | As police were moving in protesters attempted to block a police van, which proceeded to accelerate into the protesters. | 1 video | 2024-05-13T16:41:35.100Z |
| 259 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17:36:34 | 17:36:34 | Binnengasthuis | Eviction; Barricades; Police Violence | 2 videos | 2024-05-13T16:45:17.416Z | |
| 260 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17:21:50 | 17:21 | Oudemanhuispoort | Police Violence | 2 videos | 2024-05-13T16:58:40.647Z | |
| 262 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 15:33 | 15:33 | Roeterseiland Campus | Police Violence | All of us are sat, chanting, the police wants to walk in line in the middle of us so they just casually start beating one of the person on the floor. they didn't ask them to move, just use violence for them to move out of the way. on the video, we can also see the police truck going towards the seated crowd, without the yellow booth, they would have gone further | 1 video | 2024-05-13T17:04:35.868Z |
| 263 | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 1623 | 16:23 | Roeterseiland Campus | Video shows police moving from north to south and attacking protesters at REC till the street -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roeterseiland 13/5/2024 16:23 Police line advancing on protesters, beating with batons. | 1 video | 2024-05-13T17:06:33.729Z | ||
| 264 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | not mentioned | Unknown | Rokin | Injuries; Bruises | Injury inflicted by riot police with a baton during the demo at Rokin on the 8th of May 2024. Individual was running away when hit. Injury consists of a large bruise on the upper arm, roughly the size of two small clenched fists. | 1 image | 2024-05-13T17:09:20.025Z |
| 265 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 15:30 | 15:30 | Roeterseiland Campus, outside near the ABC bridge | Injuries | I was at the front when the police charged at us, the first time. I had one of the large cardboard bookbloc signs in my hands. I did not hear any police saying we had to leave, but after about 5 minutes of standing there and chanting, the police charged us using excessive violence. Instead of pushing back to remove us, which they are saying is the reason for their violence, they immediately started hitting us with their riot batons. I was hit multiple times, and trying to defend me with my bookbloc. Everyone around me was trying to move back, but the police kept hitting us until we fell to the ground. When I fell, the police kept hitting me, and I could only leave when my fellow protestors helped me up. Whilst getting hit we moved towards CREA. Here the police stopped hitting us, so we stood still and continued chanting. I would say after about twenty minutes the police announced that we should leave. A few minutes later they charged us again. I had gotten a new bookbloc sign by this time, because my first sign was completely demolished. I put up the sign to avoid getting hit on the head. This kept my head safe from any vital damage, but at this moment(same day as incident around 19:00) I'm barely able to move my left arm. Again they used their batons, instead of just pushing us back. Occasionally we could not move back, because there were too many people behind us. During these moments where we would come to a halt, the police used especially agressive violence. There was one line of ME and about three ME'ers holding police dogs behind them. We would get beat, pushed back, and then come to a halt I would say about two times. Eventually, we as a group decided to leave, because the police was circling us. We had a legitimate fear that we would get beat up from both sides. After this we left as a group, and while walking away I heard screams from behind and saw police charging again. I was not at the front anymore, so I could not fully see what was happening, but we had communicated to the police that we were leaving. The police stayed very hostile as we were leaving the premises. | 6 images | 2024-05-13T17:09:32.024Z |
| 267 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Afternoon | Afternoon | n.a. | Injuries | ""Today I was hit on my leg by an officer. I also have bruises but mainly a swollen red mark on my leg."" | 1 image | 2024-05-13T17:15:25.302Z |
| 268 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 16:19 | 16:19 | Roeterseiland Campus | Police Violence | 1 video | 2024-05-13T17:17:53.786Z | |
| 269 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | Around 16:15-1630 | 16:15-16:30 | Roeterseiland Campus | Injuries; Police Violence | We were standing in the peaceful support demo next to the abc building when suddenly police in riot gear charged at us pushing people away. We were moving away and i was filming in case of police violence to document it when a cop hit me with his baton on my arm to stop me from documenting. I’ll add the video i was taking when it happened and a video filmed by a friend where you can see it happen too. I’ll ad a pic of the bruise too which was taken right after it happened | 1 image; 2 videos | 2024-05-13T17:18:58.129Z |
| 270 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z | not mentioned | Unknown | Spuistraat | Injuries; Bruises | Injury caused by baton hit. Person hit at soli demo, group of people began walking away (from?) were then kettled and beat by police. Injury consists of bruising size of large pear on the back side of the left upper arm a bit below the arm pit. Also light bruising on the left backside of the shoulder and thin red marks across half of the upper back. | 2 images | 2024-05-13T17:22:30.174Z |
| 271 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 16:30-17:30 | 16:30-17:30 | Roeterseiland Campus, from the ABC building along the water towards Kriterion | Demonstrations; Injuries; Police Violence | I was being oushed around and grtting stuck on things with my backpack as we were being pushed back by police. At some point i am right infront of them and put my hands up tonprotect myself as behind me there is no way of getting through. As i put my hands up in a defensive wa and even showing the peace sign (not souting fuck cops or anything along those line) 3 sought me out as i seemed to not be getting hit. Then i got hit 8+ times with heavy bruising all along my body. Inckuding my neck, shoulder, ribs, back, arm, bicep, and head, as well as other minor hits. As i am a trained fighter i was doging their hits, but i am certain eithout my effort to dodge i would have been hit in the head several times by 3 cops. I am in pain, but nothing serious serious for now, but i hope nothing stays after the swelling goes. My head was not hit hard enough to bleed but i have a bump on my head that hurts when pressed on. I was peaceful. Making sure not to incite violence. Ooenly showing my face and simply pushing smaller and weaker people behind me as they were being beaten. After that i got helped by medics as my arm ahd gone numb. In kriterion a women also took more pictures. I just tried to protect those around me that were smaller or simply ill equipped to stand a chance at taking a hit by these batons. So i took many. | 3 images | 2024-05-13T17:53:07.876Z |
| 272 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17:20 | 17:20 | Oudemanhuispoort | Police Violence; Demonstrations; Barricades | ""Hi, I have some footage from yesterday. We were in the supporter group outside the barricade. The police gave us a warning 1 minute before they surrounded us, we had nowhere to go. Then they started to randomly hit everyone in the front line."" | 2 videos | 2024-05-13T17:57:15.557Z |
| 273 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | Around 3 i think, not sure | 15:00 | UvA | Peaceful Blockade | A police car with dogs inside was moving to the entrance at uva. People stopped the car and took a seat in front of the car. | 1 video | 2024-05-13T17:59:47.783Z |
| 274 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 19:14 | 19:14 | Rokin 104 | Funny / Memes | ""Police Faces"" | 2 videos | 2024-05-13T18:14:49.783Z |
| 275 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 12:27 | 12:27 | Roeterseiland Campus | Demonstrations | During the large demonstration following the walkout, multiple people gave amazing speeches and many chantes were heard. The protest was very well-prepared from posters, to medics and crowd-control to the speakers. One of the most powerful chants in my opinion was 'The People United Will Never Be Defeated' which can be heard in the video. Hearing it from such a large group of people and with such resolve just made me feel compelled to record it to remember the moment for myself and share it for posterity. | 1 image | 2024-05-13T19:09:45.960Z |
| 276 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 16:00 | 16:00 | Eviction; Police Violence; Barricades; Demonstrations | Insane amount of police violence against peaceful student protesters standing OUTSIDE of the encampment. | 2024-05-13T19:11:39.614Z | ||
| 277 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 17-21h | 17:00-21:00 | Occupied UvA building | 49 images; 1 video | 2024-05-13T19:12:09.552Z | ||
| 278 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 5:45pm | 17:45 | Nationaal Holocaust Namenmonument | Police Violence | People were marching along the road peacefully.Police blocked the road with police cars and did not let people walk through. Police used batons to hit people.In the end, the march was forced to take the smaller path along the canal. | 1 video | 2024-05-13T20:02:17.382Z |
| 279 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 16:19 | 16:19 | Roeterseiland Campus, from Roetersstraat on the bridge facing the ABC buiding | Police Violence | I was standing across the canal, watching the riot police pushing out the people protesting outside of the UvA buildings. They had been standing at the entrance of ABC building protesting and they were pushed back to roetersstraat. The people had to walk by the water and the people were walking away. Whilst they were walking the police was using excessive force and hitting people that were at the back of the crowd walking towards the street. They also hit an old man that was press im pretty sure and pulled him out of the crowd after. Later I saw him walking with a helmet on. I filmed all the way till the street and there is a lot violence depicted | 1 video | 2024-05-13T20:24:34.336Z |
| 280 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 15:24 | 15:24 | Roeterseiland Campus | Police Violence | A group of people outside of roeterseiland ABC building was blocking the riot police line. Without ‘vordering’ they started hitting us. People panicked and started running, it was hard not fall/trample others. | 1 video | 2024-05-13T20:50:17.578Z |
| 281 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 18:30 | 18:30 | Rokin | Police Violence; Demonstrations | Riot police began violently beating back peaceful UvA student/staff protestors without provocation (ostensibly in order to clear the way for police buses intended to transport students arrested near/at Oudemanhuispoort). This violence created a panic in the crowd and caused people rush backwards suddenly, moments after I stopped filming. I do not know exactly what injuries were sustained from the blows captured here but soon after I saw someone sitting on the ground bleeding from the head. | 1 video | 2024-05-13T20:59:55.358Z |
| 282 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 3:30 | 03:30 | Roeterseiland Campus | Police Violence | After the police started to repress and arrest the crowd protesting in of the building, they started to try to mobilize the riot vans to secure the arrestees. Vans were maneuvering aggressively and without regard for the safety of the people in the crowd. The street is narrow because of the canal alongside it and police closed all entries so people were trapped. People started to try to stop the car from moving and the driver kept going, almost running over multiple protesters. The car only stopped after the crowd stopping it grew big enough to guarantee serious injuries if it moved. | 2024-05-13T22:47:05.792Z | |
| 283 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 15:30 | 15:30 | Roeterseiland Campus | Police Intimidation; Demonstrations | Riot police entrapped a group of about 50 demonstrators on a bridge from two sides, while riot police stormed the rec building to end the encampment. The protesters were later allowed to leave the bridge from one side when they asked to be let go. | 2024-05-14T07:28:10.238Z | |
| 284 | Utrecht | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 1200 | 12:00 | Utrecht University | Demonstrations | documentation of negotiation with the head of the university board and the demonstrators in front of uu on may 13 at noon | 1 image; 5 videos | 2024-05-14T08:01:05.542Z |
| 285 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | from 20:00 to 23:00 | 20:00-23:00 | Rokin, Rembrandplein | Demonstrations | Note for web developer: this website does not work well on chrome. Around 20:00 on Wednesday may 8th, I arrived at the protest at the Rokin. I had my camera with me and took photo's of both the protests and the police response. When I got to the protest, shortly after 20:00, there was already a lot of police present. At this time the police was blocking the way to the binnengasthuis. So I could still walk from Muntplein to the Dam. From 20:30 to 21:45 The amount of police increased, at 21:36 there was still no police line blocking off the Dam (see, 8-5_2136.JPG, there are possibly police vans approaching from the dam). At 21:47, I took a picture (8-5_2147.jpg) of the police blocking the Spui straat. By 21:48, the police were clearing the protesters from the Rokin. This police force had face-coverings and no visible ID number, making them completely unidentifiable. By 21:58 the protest had moved to Rembrandt plein. Shortly afterwards, much of the police force left. Part of the protesters, myself included, walked back to the Rokin unimpeded. However we returned to Rembrandt plein because it was less likely that the police would try to violently clear such a touristed area. | 5 images | 2024-05-14T08:09:27.928Z |
| 286 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 15:15-17:00 | 15:15-17:00 | Roeterseiland Campus | Police Violence; Injuries | We were peacefully waiting outside of the barricade for our friends and then the ME stormed in. It took them a little to finally attack us and a police bus also stormed in on us. They had us surrounded and we were stuck but we were not the people from the inside. You can see everything in the livestream footage. | 2 videos | 2024-05-14T08:13:50.475Z |
| 288 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 3 | 15:00 | 1 video | 2024-05-14T08:20:59.917Z | |||
| 289 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17:30 | 17:30 | Oudemanhuispoort | Police Violence; Injuries; Eviction | ""Hey I have a pretty clear video here of what happened to me today at the uva protest."" In video: ""This is when I got hit in the face. You see me trying to help someone up off the ground because they're pummeling her and the dude clubbed me over the head after as I'm walking away"". | 3 videos | 2024-05-14T08:34:48.072Z |
| 290 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17:36 | 17:36 | Oudemanhuispoort | Police Violence; Eviction | ""Aangezien ik er gister niet fysiek bij kon zijn was ik de livestream van at5 aan het volgen; zodra het buitenproportionele politiegeweld in beeld kwam heb ik een schermopname gemaakt. Je ziet bijvoorbeeld in een deel tegen het eind van de opname hoe een agent iemand die al op z’n buik op de grond ligt door een ME agent met een vuist tegen zijn slaap wordt geslagen. Als je goed kijkt zie je bijna tegelijkertijd hoe rechts van hem iemand die op probeert te staan door een agent in het gezicht wordt getrapt. Ik hoop dat jullie iets met de beelden kunnen! Als er nog een fysiek protest aankomt ben ik er uiteraard weer bij."" | 1 video | 2024-05-14T08:40:09.464Z |
| 291 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 1300 | 13:00 | Roeterseiland Campus | Eviction | 1 video | 2024-05-14T09:24:55.236Z | |
| 292 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17:15 | 17:15 | Oudemanhuispoort | Barricades; Demonstrations; Police Violence | ""Riot police charged on the support demo yesterday. People were trapped between the houses and the canal (no fence whatsoever). People that moved too slow were hit by batons. To be clear: this was outside the barricades"" | 1 video | 2024-05-14T09:28:07.909Z |
| 293 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17 | 17:00 | Oudemanhuispoort | Injuries; Police Violence | ""Hope you´re doing well, i´ve got some small evidence of the violence the ME did to me, but couldn´t record any of the violence during the protest since they broke my phone. It´s added to the email. Also good to note, the ME that was in front of us smashed everyone´s phone that was trying to film them.."" | 3 images | 2024-05-14T09:31:15.909Z |
| 294 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17:15 | 17:15 | Oudemanhuispoort | Police Violence; Demonstrations | ""This is the cops moving us out of the way of the main barricade before the bulldozer came in. "" | 1 video | 2024-05-14T09:34:28.766Z |
| 295 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 16:25 | 16:25 | Roeterseiland Campus | Eviction; Outside Agitators; Police Violence; Demonstrations | ""Hi dear team, Please find in the link below a video I took today (16:25, 13th May) of the police violence when the protesters that were inside the ABC building decided to leave collectively. It was filmed from across the water so not the most clear, but I hope it can be helpful. I was also inside the building until about 15:50. After the first request to leave the building, I remained upstairs with some colleagues until we heard police was entering the building. At that point (around 15:20, I guess), we decided to go downstairs to observe the students and the police conduct towards them. I unfortunately don't have any videos or photos of the scenes inside, but will share some observations here in case they are useful for you. When we arrived downstairs, there was a big group of students in the main hall and the atmosphere was quite chaotic. There were some students building barricades, and some (few) were actively damaging university goods (TV monitors, furniture, the coffee machine and goods of the cafeteria). Most, however, were not contributing to this and were talking amongst themselves in the main hall or observing from the hallway above. We talked to some students and then noticed police was already present inside, and asked them to provide those students who wanted to leave with a way out, which they complied with. After this, I noticed the group of students still present was re-organising itself and demanding those who were exhibiting destructive behaviour to leave or step down as they were, quote, ""ruining it for all of [them]"". Quickly, the atmosphere calmed and the students were organising de-escalation and their collective exit from the building, using a high and low risk division and instructing/organising amongst themselves. It was at this point that I decided to leave the building using the aforementioned exit provided by the police, and joined the solidarity protest from where I took the video. I hope this is useful, thank you for all your work! Best, [omitted]"" | 1 video | 2024-05-14T10:22:25.178Z |
| 296 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | afternoon | Afternoon | Oudemanhuispoort, ""the beach"" | Police Violence; Eviction; Barricades; Injuries; Demonstrations | Pig broke my right hand, so I'll keep it short. Could give a f2f account of things if needed. When the pigs entered through the barricade, we formed muliple lines on the beach. At random moments they would start beating us. All the way in the beginning i got a baton on my hand (which i now know resulted in breaking my bone). HOURS LATER THEY STARTED TO VIOLENTLY (oops caps) take us apart. They threw me to the floor, shit was on top of me so i couldnt see. they tried to break my leg by lifting it and putting pressure on the knee. They punched me and tried to suffocate me by folding my face on my chest while i was still on the floor. when they managed to separate me from the group, they threw me out of the gate onto the floor so hard my kufiya came off that was tightly wrapped around my head. | 3 images | 2024-05-14T10:50:19.768Z |
| 297 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17:15 | 17:15 | Oudemanhuispoort | Police Violence; Barricades; Demonstrations | ""This was the initial start of the big ontruiming (eviction) standing to the left side on Oudezijds Achterburgwal At this time from my perspective there was no reason to target the peaceful protestors outside of the barricades, you can see the peace signs the shouting “we are peaceful, what are you” — what you cannot see is that behind us there was no space to move, we were pushed back very violently, you heard screaming from those being squashed together, there was also a blockage on the other end of the street with us being surrounded. I was personally hit by an ME officer once while next to me my fellow protestors got hit multiple times on all places on their bodies. The officers clearly hit as hard as they could, even though we were not resisting or pushing against them at all. The one in front of me screamed at me to move back while beating, which was impossible due to the simple fact there was a crowd of already pushed together people behind me."" | 3 videos | 2024-05-14T10:53:21.745Z |
| 298 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17:20 | 17:20 | Oudemanhuispoort | Barricades; Eviction; Police Violence | Police violence after police entry into OMHP encampment | 1 video | 2024-05-14T11:14:35.049Z |
| 300 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17:30 | 17:30 | Oudemanhuispoort | Demonstrations; Police Violence | 1. Footage of police moving in to dismantle barricade 2. Footage of police moving in to dismantle barricade 3. Footage of police pushing support demonstration towards Oudezijds Achterburgwal before locking them in. Demonstrators sit down to let police pass, police hit students with batons while seated. | 3 videos | 2024-05-14T11:25:18.538Z |
| 301 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 17:30 | 17:30 | Weesperstraat 59 | Demonstrations | March from REC to OMHP getting stopped by police and vans (pre-violence) | 1 video | 2024-05-14T11:31:24.088Z |
| 302 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17:30 | 17:30 | Oudemanhuispoort | Eviction; Barricades; Police Violence | Police violence on the big group of students inside barricade | 1 video | 2024-05-14T11:34:57.175Z |
| 303 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | Afternoon | Afternoon | Roeterseiland Campus | Demonstrations; Violence | The protesters violently destroyed the University building while disregarding student safety. | 1 video | 2024-05-14T11:42:15.231Z |
| 304 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 17:30 | 17:30 | Weesperstraat 59 | Demonstrations; Police Violence | Police block and beat demonstrators in front of the holocaust monument | 1 video | 2024-05-14T11:43:46.761Z |
| 305 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Between 17:47 and 17:54 | 17:47-17:54 | Oudemanhuispoort | Arrest; Eviction | I was in the support protest. After being chased by the police, I found a way to return to the scene. Because I was filming, police allowed me to come close. They had ziptied the protesters and were holding them in one place. Also, one guy was taken away. The protestors were singing and chanting. | 2024-05-14T11:45:14.453Z | |
| 306 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 19:00 | 19:00 | Rokin 104 (metro side) | Demonstrations; Police Violence | Entrance to alley leading up to OMHP blockage & protest | 5 videos | 2024-05-14T12:11:56.312Z |
| 307 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Evening, after Gaasthuisterrain eviction | Evening | Rokin, across Diamond factory | Demonstrations; Police Violence (head Swing) | ME police swings his baton at a protestor's head. | 1 video | 2024-05-14T12:12:59.339Z |
| 308 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 19:00 | 19:00 | Rokin | Police Violence; Demonstrations | Crowd blocking of police vans overviews & police violence | 5 videos | 2024-05-14T12:18:09.503Z |
| 309 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 16.3 | 16:3 | UvA | Police Violence | 30 images | 2024-05-14T12:35:29.178Z | |
| 310 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 3:00-6:00 | 03:00-06:00 | Roeterseiland Campus, Meer en Vaart | Police Violence; Humiliation | I am a student based in Amsterdam. This is my testimony on police violence that took place during and after the riot police attacked the peaceful Roeterseiland student encampment. I was present at the encampment on the night of May 6th-7th when the police violently assaulted protestors and destroyed the camp. What I witnessed was shocking. I saw a police bulldozer ramming into the barricade on the North Western entrance to the encampment (by building G) – while there were people on the barricade. This was an extremely dangerous situation. As the barricade started falling, it started snapping, bursting and crushing in a chaotic manner, as the wooden pallets, bits of metal, and the zip-ties started breaking. There were also bricks and other loose bits tumbling down the messy structure. The barricade was broken by the police bulldozer in a very unpredictable and dangerous manner, while there were people on it. I helped some of the people off the barricade, but if someone had fallen under – or into the barricade, they could have been seriously hurt or even killed. I heard someone shout “you are going to kill us!”. It was a terrifying situation. The next instance of significant police violence that I witnessed took place after we had been surrounded by the police. This time, I was the target. They started pushing us, as a group, towards the buses that were used to transport us to the police station. This is along the Northern side of the campus, along building G, and towards Roetersstraat where the buses were parked. I was at the back of the group, which meant that the police were constantly pushing me with their shields, and shouting at me to keep walking. This was impossible, as the group in front of me was not moving. One reason for this was that other members of the police had cut our group into two by rushing between us. This significantly slowed down the advance of the group towards the police buses. The policeman behind me saw this as an opportunity to push and scream at me, while I was trying not to fall onto the students in front of me. Eventually, this situation started to annoy me, so I shouted back at the police that it was impossible for me to move forward if the people in front of me did not move also. This made me a target, and the police pushed and shoved me even more. At one point, I felt a policeman shove his baton into my back with some force. It was not a hard hit, but, by reflex, I used my arm to swipe at my back. This was not a conscious act on my part, but a reflex reaction to the baton being shoved at my spine. As I did this, I turned around to look at the policeman who did this to me, because I felt that it was completely uncalled for. He then hit me on the head with his baton, without any warning. It was a hard, violent, overhead swing, which hit me on the forehead. Due to the force of the hit, I fell to the ground. Encouraged by fellow students I quickly got back on my feet and hid further up the crowd. A large and painful lump appeared on my forehead, I had a headache for two days, and it is still painful to touch it as I write this statement (afternoon 09.05.2024). The third instance of police violence that I saw took place while we were being held in buses for what felt like more than two hours. This was at the Meer en Vaart police station, probably around 6:00 in the morning. Due to the length of our detainment in the crowded bus, and because we were not allowed to leave the bus even to go to the bathroom, one student eventually decided to urinate into a water bottle. The student then placed the open bottle of piss outside of the bus (the doors of the bus were open so that the crowded bus would have some fresh air circulating). About half an hour later, a policeman from Rotterdam (I could see his badge) picked up the open bottle of piss and threw it back into the bus, aiming it at us. We were about to be drenched in piss! Thankfully, one student caught the bottle mid-air and threw it back out, emptying most of the contents of the bottle onto the ground. The same policeman threw the bottle back in at us and said that if we threw it back out they would close the doors. The bottle was indeed thrown back out. I want to stress that when the bottle was thrown out of the bus by students, it was clearly not aimed at any police or any other person. The Rotterdam policeman, however, clearly, aimed to drench us in piss, throwing the open bottle into a crowded bus. As the policeman warned, the doors of the bus were then closed, and there was even less fresh air for us to breathe in the bus, making an uncomfortable situation even worse. We could then see the piss-throwing policeman laugh with his colleagues. Presumably, they found the situation very funny. We did not. | 2024-05-14T12:58:58.251Z | |
| 311 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | around 17:00 | 17:00 | Wibautstraat | Police Violence | Overhead baton swing at a protestor. | 1 video | 2024-05-14T13:26:58.102Z |
| 312 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 17:00 | 17:00 | Oudezijds Achterburgwal | Police Violence | Ik stuur hierbij een foto van mijn gekneusde ribben. Ik stond voor de barricade bij Oudemanhuispoort als support-demonstrant, en werd beknuppeld toen de politie aanviel, terwijl ik mijn handen in de lucht had. Daarnaast ben ik ook te zien op 0:33 op deze instagram post: [omitted]. Ik probeerde de instructies van de politie te volgen, maar die waren onduidelijk, en ik werd toen vastgegrepen en tegen andere demonstranten gegooid. Ik heb geen geweld tegen de politie geprobeerd te plegen, zelfs niet om mijzelf te verdedigen. Ik hoop dat dit behulpzaam is, en ik werk graag mee als ik nog iets kan betekenen. | 1 image | 2024-05-14T13:31:50.022Z |
| 313 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z | 17.00 (when the eviction started) | 17:00 | Oudemanhuispoort | Barricades; Injuries; Police Violence | When the riot police started the eviction, I was in front of the barricade on the Binnengasthuisstraat. First one cop grab my by the hair and tried to pull me down and drag me out of the line. When the cop released me, they started to beat us with the batons. They hit me onece in the left arm. They managed to start kettleing us towards Nieuwe Doelenstraat. When we were walking, out, one cop hit me in the back, but I had a backpack. Then he hit the second blow on my legs, the right leg received most of the blow. | 3 images | 2024-05-14T13:58:57.393Z |
| 314 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 17:00 | 17:00 | Oudezijds Achterburgwal | Police Violence | Riot police shove crowd and swing their batons, even though people are clearly packed and unable to move. | 1 video | 2024-05-14T14:01:04.452Z |
| 315 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | Unkown (multiple incidents) | Unknown | Unkown (multiple incidents) | Police Violence | Hi, Hereby three things i saww happening 1. Probably youve already heard this story, but in our bus someone was in need of medical help. With an ambulance next to us (and lots of police), there was no reason for them not to help her out. Though, the bus just kept on driving and the police officers did not care. Only a while later when the police officer had to get out of the bus to pee, they took her out of the bus and stood next to her which made her panic worse and worse. In the end they called in an ambulace. So they could have safely let her go into an ambulance when she was in need of it, but purposefully they worsened her state (without any reason or purpose) In the appendix you can see and hear people calling for an ambulance and the police officer not responding 1. When I got arested i was holding on to a girl. They were threatening to use violence on her if would not let her loose. 2. they were smashing chairs and tables onto the floor without any need to. I dont have a video of this but there must be enough Greetings Ps i assumed genders in my stories to make the story easier to visualise. | 1 video | 2024-05-14T14:12:25.740Z |
| 316 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 16:20 | 16:20 | Roeterseiland Campus, Entrance to the ABC Building | Police Violence | At about 16:20, my friend & I (19F and 20F) had just exited the encampment peacefully with our fellow protesters. At the news that there was going to be a teach-in in the garden era at Roeterseiland, we both walked towards it, and therefore near the right entrance of the ABC building, where we were met with a group of numerous protesters and the entrance blocked by about 15 police officers. The space was peaceful and relatively quiet, I can recall no chants nor much movement within the crowd. My friend and I approached the entrance of the building, curious as to why the police was blocking people, when suddenly the group in front of us started running at this point, we got separated, with me being pushed to the right side( wall-side) and my friend to the left (canal-side). As I had been pushed, I struggled to regain my balance amid the crowd running, and that's when the police started to strike. Initially,a police officer's shield kept hitting me in my face, causing my glasses to become deformed and to fall from my face multiple times. The police relentlessly pushed the crowd to the back, creating a stampede and causing multiple people (including me) to stumble on each other, fall to the ground, and start to suffocate. While this was happening, I got hit multiple times with multiple batons on my neck, my arms, my right shoulder and on the top of my head. I could feel the force that the police had used to hit me immediately, and fearing more damage, I went to shield my head with my right hand, I locked eyes with the police officer who chose to hit my hand with his baton. In this way, he caused my right index finger to possibly break (I do not have the funds to have it X-rayed), and I now have been struggling with daily tasks such as typing this report. In a video that was circulating later I found the perspective of those in the building, and on the left bottom corner you can see me receiving multiple baton hits to my upper body in a matter of seconds, by one police officer. I commend my fellow protesters for shielding me enough for me to hide in the crowd and manage to get out, for in those last moments I was genuinely convinced that police officer had not only the power, but the uncaring will to beat me to the state of unconsciousness. All the while, the people around me where screaming in pain, anger, or simply asking why this was happening with us. The police simply did not care that they were trampling us, and took it as an excuse to hit us harder each time. When I managed to exit the crowd, the medics and the supporters helped me immediately, and I managed to find my friend. Though, I was in shock I could immediately feel the effects of the brutality on my body, and I feel them even now a day later. Though I know I was hit continuously and relentlessly, I now am with multiple bruises and a possibly broken finger, all because I was standing on my university campus with my friend. My friend, on the other hand, the moment we got separated had got stuck with another protester who was looking for her friend. This made her end up in front of the police. at the beginning she was not hit, but the protesters around her were being badly beaten; as she went to shield them, she got hit by a baton multiple times. While she and others were being brutally beaten, they kept asking the police officers why they were doing this, to which the police would not reply, but instead would threaten to ""shove/push them in the canal"". Here she sustained multiple hits to her hips and shoulder, and the situation also mirrored mine, in the suffocation and trampling of the crowd. We managed to find ourselves later thanks to some helpful protesters. We are now dealing with the consequences of police brutality: I need help with dealing with daily tasks while she has visible discoloration all over her shoulder and left arm. During it we both thought no one could or would be able to help us, and in fact no one did. We got out in panic and shock, and by sheer ""luck"", but we find ourselves from 16:45 yesterday to be traumatised and in physical and psychological pain, and we will bear this for a long, long time | 6 images; 1 video | 2024-05-14T14:31:52.772Z |
| 317 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 17:00 | 17:00 | Oudezijds Achterburgwal | Police Violence | Clash in front of barricade. Police swing their batons at a cornered person outside the barricade. | 1 video | 2024-05-14T14:42:00.182Z |
| 318 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 17:00 | 17:00 | Binnengasthuis | Police Violence | Police attack retreating protestors with batons. | 1 video | 2024-05-14T14:45:56.327Z |
| 319 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 17:00 | 17:00 | Binnengasthuis | Police Violence | Police swing batons at protestors outside the barricades, even though they are cornered and unable to move anywhere. | 1 video | 2024-05-14T14:47:20.622Z |
| 320 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 17:00 | 17:00 | Binnengasthuis | Police Violence | Middle aged woman filming police when riot officers shoves her to the ground. | 1 video | 2024-05-14T14:51:03.919Z |
| 321 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 15:32 | 15:32 | Roeterseiland Campus | Police Violence | We were protesting and sitting on the ground. On the video you can see cops beating students in front of the policebus and further into the video cops beating students who are literally just sitting down. Unfortunately I could not film the escalation since I was sitting down when they started to beat me and I was squished between people trying to form a line and get away, but I can describe it: I was sitting on the ground and then the cops started beating us with their sticks and shields without a warning. Everyone was falling over each other trying to avoid getting hit because they did not even give us the time to stand up and they kept beating people even when they were down! They beat me a lot and targeted areas such as my head. Luckily I have no injuries at the moment. Eventually the students got together and formed a front while walking back, there were so many people it was very chaotic. They kept beating us and we kept walking back until we were off UvA grounds. | 1 video | 2024-05-14T14:52:57.619Z |
| 322 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 17:00 | 17:00 | Binnengasthuis | Police Violence; Police Disregard For Property | Police walking away and throwing things into the canal, including a bicycle. | 1 video | 2024-05-14T14:58:18.851Z |
| 323 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 17:00 | 17:00 | Binnengasthuis | Police Disregard For Property; Police Violence | Police throwing things into the canals. | 1 video | 2024-05-14T15:04:58.186Z |
| 324 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 17:00 | 17:00 | Binnengasthuis | Police Violence | Police swings baton at a protestors head. | 2024-05-14T15:06:05.027Z | |
| 325 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 17:00 | 17:00 | Binnengasthuis | Police Violence | Police swings baton at protestors head at the entrance of binnengasthuis, behind barricades. | 2024-05-14T15:06:58.651Z | |
| 326 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 17:00 | 17:00 | Binnengasthuis | Police swings baton at the head. | 2024-05-14T15:07:34.686Z | ||
| 327 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 17:00 | 17:00 | Binnengasthuis | Police Violence | During the eviction of the binnegasthuisterrain, at the entrance of the building, policeman in black and jeans swings baton repeatedly overhead. Officer then leaves. | 1 video | 2024-05-14T15:10:10.958Z |
| 328 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 22:00 | 22:00 | Rokin | Police Violence | Riot police swing batons at crowd and chase fleeing protestors. | 1 video | 2024-05-14T15:12:53.452Z |
| 329 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 17:00 | 17:00 | Kloveniersburgwal | Police Violence | Police hit a man with a keffiyeh, even though he is not part of a crowd and he is walking away. | 1 video | 2024-05-14T15:18:36.204Z |
| 330 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 17:00 | 17:00 | Kloveniersburgwal | Police Violence | Riot police officer approaches man wearing a keffiyeh and slams him in the face with his gloved hand. | 1 video | 2024-05-14T16:00:46.814Z |
| 331 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 18:00 | 18:00 | Rokin 123 | Police Violence | Riot police repeatedly slam packed crowd with batons, successive overhead swings. | 1 video | 2024-05-14T16:06:44.198Z |
| 332 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z | Around 18:00 | 18:00 | Gebed Zonder End, om de hoek van Oudemanhuispoort | Beste mensen, Hierbij een filmpje van subtiel politiegeweld, mogelijk ethnisch profieleren. Ik filmde de grond want als bruin persoon leek me mijn aanwezigheid provocatie genoeg. Ik ging staan tussen mensen die police friendly klonken. Locatie: Gebed Zonder End, om de hoek v Oudemanhuispoort. Rond 1 minuut zeggen de twee ME'ers dat we weg moesten. Terwijl ik me direct omdaaide me drukt een van hen schijld tegen mijn arm. Legt daarna zijn hand op mijn zchouder. Verbale interactie en zijn ontkenning zijn te horen. Ook al drukte hij niet hard, toch onnodige invasion of privacy. Of zij dat bij anderen deden zag ik niet. Succes met wat jullie doen! | 1 video | 2024-05-14T16:14:36.963Z | |
| 333 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z | Around 17:00 | 17:00 | Maagdenhuis | Police Violence | Police swing batons at crowd surrounding police van. | 1 video | 2024-05-14T16:16:30.623Z |
| 334 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 17:00 | 17:00 | Binnengasthuis | Police Violence | Group of ME'ers swing batons at retreating crowd, including overhead strikes. | 1 video | 2024-05-14T16:18:29.375Z |
| 335 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 21:00 | 21:00 | Rokin 104 | Tear Gas; Police Violence | We came out of the metro station on the other side of the barricade and the police, and all of a sudden they started using tear gas. | 2 videos | 2024-05-14T17:23:57.355Z |
| 336 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 21:50 | 21:50 | Rokin | Police Violence | I took part in the peaceful pro-palestine demonstration at Rokin. I joined it around 20:00-20:30 until 23:00. During this time I only engaged in this demonstration in a peaceful manner (standing and shouting, but never throwing, or being in any way violent). At a certain point the crowd moved together, sitting down. There was a sense that something was gonna happen because new police vans arrived. There was one distant speaker annoucment made by the police, but it was not able to hear it properly. After the very quickly people ran, the crowed moved very quickly, people were screaming not to run to not create mass panic, because people would get squished otherwise. I was part of this crowed, that was extremely pressed together, very difficult to move properly. The crowd moved from Rokin towards Rembantplein. When I was moved to the end to the crowed unvoluntarly, i realized that the police was both pushing and beating the protestors to move. People at the end line were screaming multiple times that they are moving already and (there wasn't space to move faster because it was hardly possible to move faster) and doing what the police was saying, but nevertheless people were being beaten and pushed forcefully by the police. This happend to me too: i ended up in the back of the line, and was beaten by one police men with his stick (on my arm) and pushed hard in the back, even tho I was telling him multiple times I am already moving and doing what they are telling us to. This continued until someone within the crowed was pulling me inwards so I was ""safe"". I witnessed this with others as well as someone who was pushed by a police men, consequently fell and while being on the ground, was beaten by this same police men, until others came to pull her up (as well under beatings) and were able to move her further forward. | 2 images | 2024-05-14T18:27:59.922Z |
| 337 | 2024-08-05T00:00:00Z | 1955 | 19:55 | Rokin to Rembrandtplein | Hello I just submitted a detail report, one that I also submitted by the police as ""klacht"". I wanna add some videos aswell, that I filmmed. Maybe they are helpful. If you did get submissions of videos that show me, being beaten by the police and confirmin what I have been saying in my statement, that would be very helpful ofc. | 1 image; 4 videos | 2024-05-14T20:14:07.429Z | ||
| 338 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z | around 21h | 21:00 | Spui | 🐷; Police Violence; Injuries | On thursday, at the protest in support of the student movement for the liberation of Palestine, we walked from Roeterseiland to Spui. Once we got to Spui things got tense, the riot police was present. They tried to move a police van and the protesters blocked it. I was in the middle and suddenly, somehow, I found myself on the frontline. I was hit twice by them, once on the forearm and once on my thigh. What is most obvious is that the agitation of the crowd was incited by the cops in such an insidious way. Since then the mobility in my arm is quite limited and I have had to rely on the network around me to be able even feed myself. | 3 images | 2024-05-14T20:21:33.016Z |
| 341 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 3-4 a.m., during the eviction | 03:00-04:00 | Roeterseiland Campus | Injuries; Eviction; Police Violence | This particular incident was just as the police charged through the broken barricade on Roeterseiland. We had been protecting it with our bodies as long as we could — I could feel the pallets and metal beams moving beneath my feet like waves as the bulldozer pushed and pulled at them. As soon as police broke through and started charging at the crowd my instinct was to keep defending. I didn't realise most people had already ran away — I was looking forward. Since I tried to stand my ground, several cops attacked me simultaneously. [omitted] I was holding my hands up to defend myself as they hit me with the batons several times on different parts of my body. It all happened so fast and yet it felt much longer than the few seconds it really was. Instinctively, I managed to grab hold of the baton at some point, so each of us was holding one end of it. I held onto it like this for several seconds before I realised there was no use in this and let go. At least one of them couldn't hit be during that time but I did get kicked instead. As I walked away with my hands up another cop smacked me with his shield. I had to go sit down at the very back of the crowd after this as my whole body was hurting. The pictures of bruises I've attached were from 4 days later, when they were still deep purple and painful. On the day itself, sitting in the arrest bus, I'd never seen my arm so swollen. | 4 images; 1 video | 2024-05-14T22:15:20.379Z |
| 342 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | Around 15:30 | 15:30 | Roeterseiland Campus | Police Violence; Demonstrations | Filmed a policeman got punched in the face | 1 video | 2024-05-14T23:09:02.133Z |
| 343 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z | 9pm | 21:00 | Spui | Police Violence | 1 video | 2024-05-15T07:51:19.968Z | |
| 344 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-11T00:00:00Z | 17:15 | 17:15 | Museumplein | Outside Agitators | Dit filmpje begint een paar seconden nadat de racistische hooligans/neo nazi’s ons aanvielen op het Museumplein. Ze kwamen aangelopen schreeuwend ‘…Nederland Nederland…’ en staken cobra’s af. Voor het filmpje begint hoorde ik een knal. En kijk naar de straat waar de knal vandaan kwam en daar kwamen een groep van 15+ jongens in zwart aangelopen as a wolfpack schreeuwend ‘…Nederland Nederland…’, staken nog een cobra af en begonnen te rennen. Dit is het moment dat het filmpje begon. Waarop de groep die vreedzaam op het plein zat opstond en ons begon te beschermen. De politie stond helemaal aan de andere kan (bij het Moco museum) waardoor zij veel later arriverende. Ook is te zien dat een deel van de politie totaal gene haast maakt. Daarna is het eigenlijk snel voorbij. En word de gast die op de grond is gevallen in de menigte geholpen door het ehbo-team van de demo. | 1 video | 2024-05-15T10:18:13.236Z |
| 345 | Amsterdam | 2024-08-08T00:00:00Z | Eviction Time | Eviction | Oudezijds Achterburgwal | Police Violence | Footage of [omitted] being assaulted (POV) | 1 video | 2024-05-15T12:20:41.934Z |
| 346 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 15:30 | 15:30 | Roesterseiland Campus, Outside ABC building | Police Violence | I was stood outside the building with staff and other students, while poeple were protesting inside. Then I saw the ME police walking fast down the side of the canal towards Roesterseiland, they started pushing people out of the way. I saw a few people run over to stand infront of them so I ran over to join them too, with my hands in the air to show I wasn't armed. We stood infront of them and formed a line, at first I kept my hands in the air and then somebody passed me a cardboard book ('My People Shall Live' by Leila Khaled) so I held that. We stood face to face as a line, infront of the line of ME police. I looked them straight in the eyes while people chanted, and they just stared right back. Then the ME cop on the end of the row nearest ABC building tried to push past somebody stood their with a cardboard book. And so people started moving, maybe towards her to help her, but then the ME police line ran forward and they started hitting us all. At first they hit me twice, on the arms and the shoulders. I tried to hold up the cardboard book to protect me and he brought the baton down over my head. The cardboard book broke and I started screaming. I tried to back away but there was too many people. And then he hit me over the head again. I tried to run away but there was so many people, people started falling to the floor. I managed to pull one person off the pile and then I ran, I couldn't breathe and my head was spinning, and the vision was blurry. I saw a man in a yellow staff high-vis, watching, and I ran straight to him and he took me to the medics. I sat with the medics outside CREA for an hour, with an ice pack on my arm and head. I could hear people screaming for the whole hour. Then the ME started pushing people in that direction. The medics stood together to try to form a line to protect the people in the first aid area, and so the protesters passed closer to the building leaving the first aid area. But the ME police kept pushing forward, and they started pushing the medics, destroying the first aid area. Me and another guy who also got hit on the head tried to leave, but I couldn't run and I couldn't breathe, I thought I was going to faint. Two people grabbed me and dragged me out the back and we sat outside the JK building. But the ME kept coming and I could still see them hitting people. When they got close to the JK building we left out the back. It went on for an hour and a half, I could hear screaming and watched people getting hit the whole time. When I got home I felt very dizzy, nauseous, and then I started to feel like I had a fever. My whole body was shaking and my head felt foggy. My friends woke me up every 3 hours to make sure I didn't have a brain bleed. The next day I felt better at first, but then awful, I couldn't remember simple things and felt like I was going to throw up all the time. My vision was blurry. My housemate took me to the doctor, but she was quite cynical - asking if I'd been protesting. After 2 days it's starting to get better, I still can't use my laptop without feeling nauseous and my arm is numb and stiff from the bruising. I have a lot of headaches, and I can't raise my arm above my shoulder. I am attaching the photos from the media of the lines we were in, the policeman who hit me (on the right of the picture of two police men), and also the note from the doctor. | 4 images; 1 document | 2024-05-15T12:21:14.468Z |
| 347 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 14:30 | 14:30 | Roeterseiland Campus | Police Violence; Injuries; Demonstrations | The police with dogs, batons, shields, rubber bullet guns and armour beat people to get through to the entrance of the building. We were standing in a large group spanning from the entrance almost to the road chanting and holding signs. The police started moving a large vehicle into the space we were protesting so we tried to stop them but officers got out and beat people away splitting up into two group; a small group at the front and a larger group at the back. We sat down in front of the vehicle to stop them going any further. We changed so loud for so long; we are peaceful what are you, cops off campus. It looked like they were going to run us over, the van kept jolting towards us and officers were standing among us. On had their hand ready on their gun. This was filmed by several people; the officer was challenged: ""you think you're in a video game?"". Some supporters from behind the van moved a piece of furniture Infront of the van, shielding us slightly. Here we remained for a while chanting. Eventually the police stared to push us back this is when I was hit by and officer on the leg. We were such a small group that we decided we were too vulnerable to resist. When we got up and tried to leave, people at the front were chased back by the ME and the officers behind us started hitting us towards the ME. There was a complete lack of communication between the groups creating an unsafe situation for people exercising their right to peaceful assembly. The most important things from this experience are to talk to your fellow protesters - make sure people are okay, no on their own, have water, food, sunscreen. It was also vital that everyone be aware of the lawyer and arrest group. The level of organisation made me feel safer to exercise my right to protest. When there are that many officers, willing to hit you out of the way, you start to doubt yourself. | 1 image; 3 videos | 2024-05-15T13:02:09.718Z |
| 348 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 16:30 (around) | 16:30 | Roeterseiland Campus | Demonstrations; Police Violence | We were protesting in fron of the ABC building. At some point, cops started to appear. We created a line to prevent them and then sat down. A police vehicle wanted to drive over us. Of course, the rational was intimidation. Then the cops radomly started to hit indiscriminately. I got several bruises because of the batons of the cops. There is also a video where I ask them for identification. Of course, they did not give any. I hear this is illegal. Here is the link: [omitted] And the photos will be uploaded. | 2 images | 2024-05-15T13:43:41.370Z |
| 349 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 22:00 | 22:00 | Rokin to Rembrandtplein | Injuries; Police Violence | Soon after I arrived at the support demo at the Rokin on Wednesday the 8th, the police ordered us to leave (only in Dutch I might add) and quickly after they charged at our group. The group started moving south towards Rembrantplein and a part of the group turned left onto the Amstel street. On this street the police started to act a lot more violently, hitting a woman in her back so hard that she was screaming in pain and needed help from others to be able to stay upright. Once we turned the corner to regroup at Rembrantplein, the police charged at us again, hitting us with their batons. I had my hands up, walking away from them at a brisk pace, when they hit me three times. Once on my shoulder/neck, and twice on my legs, around where my phone would be in my pocket. A week later I still have the bruises. Keep in mind, at that moment we were complying with their demands to move away, towards Rembrantplein. Nobody posed a risk to the police, nobody was refusing to comply. Their violence was entirely unnecessary at that moment. | 3 images | 2024-05-15T13:47:31.335Z |
| 350 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 18 | 18:00 | Oudezijds Voorburgwal, on the right side of the canal facing the Grimburgwal with my back to the Makelaarsbruggetje | Police Violence | On the 8th of May I attended the solidarity protest outside the Uva building on the oudezijds achterburgwal arriving in the general area around 17.45. I was on the street oudezijds voorburgwal when I witnessed two separate instances of police violence. I was on the right side of the canal (if you are facing towards the grimburgwal not with your back to it). Incident 1. I was present around 18.00 at the location above mentioned when the police began to demand we move further and further back towards the direction of the makelaarsbruggetje. As we were trying to do so a man had to turn his bicycle to go in the direction the police were demanding. This took a few moments as the bike was facing sideways and the police were standing very close making mobility difficult. Apparently they did not find our movement fast enough and without warning they began hitting the protestors including the head of a young girl directly next to me with a baton. She cried out in pain and was visibly shaken. Incident 2. On the opposite side of the canal maybe not even a full 2 minutes since incident 1, incident 2 occurred. It happened nearly exactly where the kuiperssteeg and oudezijds voorburgwal meet but on the left side of the canal (where I was not standing) on a sort of jetty or wooden structure. I heard shouting from the people around me and was told that a homeless person had been hit, i was not able to see this with my own eyes but the person who accompanied me to the protest and other bystanders told me that this person had been hit. Apparently he was lying/maybe sleeping and what i saw was immediately afterwards when he was surrounded by the police while he had to get up, readjust his clothes and move to accommodate the police's demands. All my interactions were with police that had shields and batons. | 2024-05-15T20:05:13.848Z | |
| 351 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 01:40 | 01:40 | Statements | Under pressure from the encampment UvA released a statement containing their partnerships with the zionist entity. | 1 image | 2024-05-15T20:40:28.682Z | |
| 352 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-06T00:00:00Z | 14:26 | 14:26 | Roeterseiland Campus | Demonstrations | The early hours of the encampment. Not a lot of people present yet, convivial atmosphere. | 1 video | 2024-05-15T20:41:26.822Z |
| 353 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 02:36 | 02:36 | Roeterseiland Campus | Eviction | ME is assembling forces for the eviction of the first Roeterseiland Encampment | 1 video | 2024-05-15T20:44:42.406Z |
| 354 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-06T00:00:00Z | Afternoon | Afternoon | Online | Statements, Calls To Action | Revolutionaire Eenheid and Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network fully support the students who today started an encampment for Palestine in the Roeterseiland campus, Amsterdam. These students are on the frontline of the resistance against the Israeli genocide in Gaza and Dutch complicity. They follow the example of students in Palestine, the United States and several other countries. The Amsterdam universities UvA, VU and AUC have various ties with the genocidal apartheid state and it is high time that these ties are broken. The students are determined and will not stop until their goals are achieved. Attempts to repress or breakup the encampment by the authorities will be met with resistance. Revolutionaire Eenheid and Samidoun call on all students, youth and supporters of Palestine to join these heroic students. We fully support the students’ demands and points of unity: The demands: Full cooperation with the Freedom of Information request and full disclosure of all ties between our universities and their ties to Israeli institutions and companies, and ties to companies that profit from genocide, apartheid and the exploitation of Palestinians and their land. Boycott all academic collaborations with Israeli institutions that are complicit in genocide, apartheid and the exploitation of Palestinians and their land. Divest and terminate all contracts with Israeli and international companies that profit from genocide, apartheid and the exploitation of the Palestinian people and their land. Points of Unity: One democratic Palestine from the river to the sea; Palestinians have the right to resistance, including armed resistance; The Palestinian diaspora has a right of return. Stop the Israeli genocide and all complicity with it! Victory to the Palestinian people and their resistance! Long live international solidarity! Follow these accounts for live updates: Telegram: https://t.me/IntifadaUniversityNL Instagram:Amsterdam.encampment; Students for Justice in Palestine Amsterdam; Workers For Palestine; Dutch Scholars for Palestine; AUFreePalestine; ROSA Radical Students Below is the full initial statement from the students in Amsterdam: 🔻ENCAMPMENT ACTION🔻 Come to REC CAMPUS NOW to join us as we create a liberated zone, in solidarity with Gaza! All students, staff and humans are invited to join us NOW as we show UVA, VU and AUC that there is no business as usual when a genocide is unfolding. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A STUDENT – all are welcome in our liberated university! We will occupy and hold the line against any attempt to evict us. We need mass mobilization, and lots of support! Join us as soon as possible, we plan to STAY. Bring tents, sleeping bags and pack your belongings with you. We need both campers and supporters day and night! We expect repression, so we request our communities to stand by in solidarity with us. We cannot exist without your support. P.S. PROTESTING STAFF AND LECTURERS WELCOME – Join the brave staff and faculty as they conduct a solidarity demo at 6 PM in support of Gaza and the student intifada. Location: UvA Roeterseiland Campus, Amsterdam Time: 12 PM onwards! Free Palestine! | 1 image | 2024-05-15T20:45:06.228Z |
| 355 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 02:37 | 02:37 | Roeterseiland Campus | Eviction | ME bringing out police dogs for the eviction of the first Roeterseiland Encampment. | 1 video | 2024-05-15T20:46:12.652Z |
| 356 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 02:38 | 02:38 | Roeterseiland Campus | Eviction | ME is approaching the first line of protestors. Removing chairs and tables that have been set down as defense. | 1 video | 2024-05-15T20:48:25.299Z |
| 358 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 02:38 | 02:38 | Roeterseiland Campus | Eviction | Line of at least 6 ME busses preparing to evict the first Roeterseiland Encampment. | 1 video | 2024-05-15T20:50:34.803Z |
| 359 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 02:40 | 02:40 | Roeterseiland Campus | Eviction | ME bringing dogs to the first line of protesters. Preparing to evict the first Roeterseiland Encampment. | 1 video | 2024-05-15T20:52:15.541Z |
| 360 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 02:40 | 02:40 | Roeterseiland Campus | Eviction | Multiple journalists standing amongst ME. According to the person who recorded the video, journalists were assisting the ME in removing benches. | 1 video | 2024-05-15T20:55:32.884Z |
| 361 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 02:42 | 02:42 | Roeterseiland Campus | Eviction | ME with a small construction vehicle preparing to evict the first Roeterseiland Encampment. | 1 video | 2024-05-15T20:58:17.134Z |
| 362 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 3:06 | 03:06 | Roeterseiland Campus | Barricades; Eviction | The start of the shovel breaking through one of the barricades near the back of the campus grounds. Some protesters are throwing back fireworks/rocks/other objects. Someone with a megaphone is calling on the protesters to move back and to stop throwing things. The shovel retreats and the protesters move back towards the barricade, before the shovel once again pushes the barricade materials out of the way, after which retreating again. | 1 video | 2024-05-15T20:59:09.773Z |
| 363 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 3:07 | 03:07 | Roeterseiland Campus | Barricades; Eviction | The protesters are trying to re-erect one of the barricades after it was torn down by the police shovel | 1 video | 2024-05-15T21:01:15.102Z |
| 364 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 02:42 | 02:42 | Roeterseiland Campus | Eviction | At least 10 ME busses and ME with dogs preparing to evict the first Roeterseiland Encampment. | 1 video | 2024-05-15T21:01:16.330Z |
| 365 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 3:08 | 03:08 | Roeterseiland Campus | Eviction; Barricades | The shovel is moving to the barricade featured in the picture, near the sarphatistraat-side of the campus grounds | 1 image | 2024-05-15T21:04:17.768Z |
| 366 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 03:41 | 03:41 | Roeterseiland Campus | Eviction; Barricades | ME and a bulldozer are trying to break down a barricade of the first Roeterseiland Encampment. Protesters defending against this attack are being sprayed with some sort of soap or foam. | 1 video | 2024-05-15T21:06:21.191Z |
| 367 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 03:41 | 03:41 | Roeterseiland Campus | Eviction | ME and Arrestanteneenheid (wearing black) inside the first Roeterseiland Encampment. | 1 video | 2024-05-15T21:08:21.945Z |
| 368 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 3:12 | 03:12 | Roeterseiland Campus | Eviction; Arrest; Barricades | The AE is arresting those at the frontlines, in front of the barricade on the sarphatistraat-side of the campus grounds. The protestors are not resisting arrest, and are taken behind the ME line. | 1 video | 2024-05-15T21:09:15.653Z |
| 369 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 03:41 | 03:41 | Roeterseiland Campus | Demonstrations | Protesters chanting: 'Gaza Gaza don't you cry, we will never let you die'. | 1 video | 2024-05-15T21:09:52.237Z |
| 370 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 03:41 | 03:41 | Roeterseiland Campus | Eviction; Demonstrations | ME inside the first Roeterseiland Encampment. Protestors chanting 'Ceasefire Now'. | 1 video | 2024-05-15T21:11:19.207Z |
| 371 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 3:28 | 03:28 | Roeterseiland Campus | Police Violence; Eviction; Barricades | The ME are beating and dragging away protesters near the barricade on the bridge | 1 video | 2024-05-15T21:12:31.951Z |
| 372 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 04:00 | 04:00 | Roeterseiland Campus | Eviction; Demonstrations; Barricades | Bulldozer attacking a barricade at the first Roeterseiland Encampment. Protesters who are defending the barricade are hit with some sort of foam. Protesters can be heard chanting: 'The people, united, will never be defeated'. | 1 video | 2024-05-15T21:14:22.162Z |
| 373 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 3:37 | 03:37 | Roeterseiland Campus | Barricades; Eviction | Protesters are standing behind the barricade while the police shovel is coming towards them. | 1 image | 2024-05-15T21:14:34.805Z |
| 374 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 12:59 | 12:59 | Injuries | Bruise on hip from police violence during the eviction of the 1st encampment. | 1 image | 2024-05-15T21:17:33.212Z | |
| 375 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 03:45 | 03:45 | Roeterseiland Campus | Eviction; Barricades | Bulldozer and ME attacking the barricade. Protesters are being hit with foam. Protesters can be seen defending against this attack by holding up umbrellas and throwing water at eachother and the ME. | 1 video | 2024-05-15T21:18:37.750Z |
| 376 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 03:40 | 03:40 | Roeterseiland Campus | Eviction; Demonstrations | ME and Arrestanteneenheid (wearing black) inside the first Roeterseiland Encampment. Protesters can be heard chanting: 'UvA schande, bloed aan je handen'. | 1 video | 2024-05-15T21:20:25.156Z |
| 377 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | Afternoon | Afternoon | Statements | Statement from the CvB of the UvA following the violent eviction of the 1st encampment at REC | 1 document | 2024-05-15T21:20:30.519Z | |
| 378 | Amsterdam | 2024-03-07T00:00:00Z | 03:40 | 03:40 | Roeterseiland Campus | Barricades; Eviction | Bulldozer attacking a barricade of the first Roeterseiland Encampment. Protesters defending against this attack. | 1 video | 2024-05-15T21:22:13.517Z |
| 379 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 16:26 | 16:26 | Roeterseiland Campus | Demonstrations | A large group of people has gathered at REC to protest the violent eviction that took place the preceding night. | 2 images | 2024-05-15T21:23:08.831Z |
| 380 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 04:00 | 04:00 | Roeterseiland Campus | Injuries; Eviction; Police Violence | Arrestanteneenheid arresting picking up an unconscious person. The person who took the video stated: 'A person (white, long blonde hair grayish t-shirt grayish pants, uncovered face) was carried out by the cops half-conscious and put alone in a van, they were passed out on the street, the cops dropped them on the face, checked for the pulse and put them flat down in a van alone completely if someone recognizes them by description, maybe they need to be informed'. | 1 video | 2024-05-15T21:26:06.246Z |
| 381 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 16:27 | 16:27 | Roeterseiland Campus | Demonstrations | An ME van retreats, after it was blocked by the protesters. | 2 videos | 2024-05-15T21:27:40.976Z |
| 382 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 04:00 | 04:00 | Roeterseiland Campus | Injuries; Police Violence | ME and Arrestanteneenheid (wearing black) can be seen roaming the first Roeterseiland Encampment, beating several protestors. Arrestanteneenheid (wearing black and civilian clothing) can be seen carrying an unconscious person through the street. | 1 video | 2024-05-15T21:28:55.486Z |
| 383 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 17:08 | 17:08 | Roeterseiland Campus | Demonstrations | A large amount of people has gathered at the demonstration at REC, following the violent eviction of the preceding night | 5 images | 2024-05-15T21:30:54.313Z |
| 384 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 03:20 | 03:20 | Roeterseiland Campus | Demonstrations; Barricades; Eviction | Protesters defending a barricade of the first Roeterseiland Encampment. A bulldozer surrounded by ME can be seen approaching. | 1 video | 2024-05-15T21:30:57.994Z |
| 385 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 14:00 | 14:00 | Outside Agitators; Eviction | Article by EWmagazine interviewing the zionists who attacked the first Roeterseiland Encampment. These zionists were armed with fireworks and wore balaclavas and helmets. They were defeated and driven out of the first Roeterseiland Encampment by protestors. In the article the zionists admit the reason for their attack was to provoke an eviction by the mayor of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam police force. | 1 document | 2024-05-15T21:36:41.590Z | |
| 386 | Utrecht | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 17:12 | 17:12 | Universiteitsbibliotheek | Demonstrations | The first Utrecht encampment just started, tents are set up on the library grounds. | 2 images | 2024-05-15T21:37:08.775Z |
| 387 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 16:00 | 16:00 | Roeterseiland Campus | Demonstrations; Injuries; Police Violence | I was part of a protesting students (unrelated to the people who destroyed property inside) and as the riot police moved in to violently remove us, I cooperated and started walking out. A woman next to me fell on a step and was being beaten so I helped her up and lead her towards the street. Then I was on the back line between the students and the police. I put my hands up and walked away where they wanted us to go with my back to the police. After 10 seconds they decided to beat my leg with a stick despite walking and gesturing in a cooperative, non-threatening way. | 1 video | 2024-05-16T08:31:11.395Z |
| 388 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 16:00 | 16:00 | Roeterseiland Campus | Police Violence | Police using violence to remove protesting students. | 1 video | 2024-05-16T11:18:44.408Z |
| 389 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z | In the evening | Evening | Maagdenhuis close to Leidsestraat | Police Violence; Injuries | The march of students reached Magdehuis after which the riot police blocked off the Spui square. As I tried to enter from the side of Leidsestraat, I saw a young girl sitting on the sidewalk with a head injury and blood on her clothes shaking from shock. She said the police hit her with a baton without any provocation. | 2024-05-16T14:42:18.400Z | |
| 390 | Leiden | 2024-05-16T00:00:00Z | 18:3” | 18:30 | Wijnhaven campus University Leiden | Police | Cop presence growing at The Hague LU campus. Comradery. Keeping each other safe. | 2 images | 2024-05-16T16:37:56.759Z |
| 391 | Utrecht | 2024-05-15T00:00:00Z | First video: 23.49, 23.52, 23.59, 00.03 | 23:49; 23:52; 23:59; 00:03 | Voorstraat, behind the Janskerkhof occupation | Police Violence; Injuries; Demonstrations | The police had brought the protestors onto the bus, demonstrators were split into three groups protesting the detaining of our fellow students. Our side of the street was probably the smallest group, with between 15-20 consistent protestors. Among the crowd were some people who were suspected of being undercover police. While communication was limited we were told that they were blocking medics from entering to support those taken. Riot police came to the front and started charging, pushing and yelling at us waving their batons. People tripped over each other and got hit on their legs, and one person in their face who could barely walk straight and had to be helped away by two or three friends while riot police continued chasing us. One protestors was trying to take his bike with him as we were backing away but riot police grabbed hold of the bike, four of the cops then isolating them person, grabbed them by their neck, and talking them onto the floor. Later they fled leaving their bike behind. The demonstrators were then split again down two roads by charging riot police. Some protestors were cornered against cars by packs of riot police waving their weapons. I heard later than one of the medics on site tore their knee. | 4 videos | 2024-05-16T19:29:25.848Z |
| 392 | Utrecht | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 22.28, 00.45, 01.00, 01.04 | 22:28; 00:45; 01:00; 01:04 | Corner of Drift, Voorstraat | Barricades; Demonstrations; Eviction; Funny / Memes | First video: announcement that the library is closed. Second: riot police enter the occupied building, start throwing chairs. Once the police made themselves an entrance they started chucking chairs into the room, probably causing damage to university property. Two or three officers came down the stairs behind where the students were sat in protest. Earlier someone was spotted on the roof, I assume that’s how these cops got into the building. Half the students turned to face them and continued chanting. One officer thought he might impress his buddies by pulling mocking faces, pretending like he was a composer waving his hands like we were his choir, ripped up a flyer or poster and threw a paper into a students’ face. The third video depicts one of the first evictions, where the protestor is dragged across the floor. It’s rumoured that later the cops brought in some kind of cage looking object, apparently to evict some of the protestors who had hidden in the toilets. Once on the bus the detainees communicated that one of them had gone into shock and was experiencing seizures. We were told that the police were refusing them access to medical attention. The fourth video shows solidarity demonstrators marching to the bus on voorstraat. This group later split into two groups on either side of the bus. These protestors were then beaten, sprayed from barely a meter away straight in the face. Chased and arrested, even while seeking medical attention. | 4 videos | 2024-05-16T19:53:40.687Z |
| 393 | Utrecht | 2024-05-15T00:00:00Z | 23:54 | 23:54 | Voorstraat 77 (ter hoogte van Gys) | Police Violence | Police announced *in Dutch* that if the protestors wouldn't move they would use violence and then the police stepped forward and started hitting the people in the middle. There was also a police bus that started driving towards protestors. | 1 video | 2024-05-16T21:14:51.808Z |
| 394 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 17:00 | 17:00 | Roeterseiland Campus | May 13th was the day of the walkout at UVA. First we had speeches for two hours standing outside. Afterwards people went inside. Chaos and confusion ensued. After we had been inside the UVA, we collectively decided to leave. We went in a big group very slowly via the biking garage. Once bag on the street. We fanned out, and no one got arrested. We blended in with the crowd so the police did not know who had been inside and who had not. Then later a few people went back to the entrance of UVA. And did some chants there. I went to sit near the water with two friends, to drink some water and take a breather. All of a sudden the ME started hitting the people who were standing in front of the UVA. Mini panic started amongst the crowd and people started running to flee. Immediately people were yelling ‘stop running’. Because running is nog the way to collectively get everyone to safety. So we started backing up slowly as a group. I went to the front since I saw last week that white privilege really makes a difference in the ME. So me and my very Dutch face went ahead to the frontline. I had my arms up. Calmly I helped guiding people. Saying stuff like ‘Everyone fall back’ ‘Lets stay calm’ etc. And meanwhile keeping eye contact with the ME. I communicate that we are already walking backwards and cooperating. I was de-escalating and giving myself a calm demeanor. An officer told me to turn around and walk away. But we are told precisely not to do that. Because we want to move the whole group safely. And they hit easier and faster when they don't have eye contact ... the brave heroes. Then suddenly it erupted. I was hit by two cops at the same time. 1 ME guy hit my right forearm, [omitted]. But the other one hit me twice on my left upper arm. The latter was really very painful. There you are, with no protection, arms up on the public road. And if I had done something in return (like hitting with an umbrella). I would have been in prison and sentenced like the guy from last week. Nothing was broken, others were far worse. At least I did not get hit in the head… PS [omitted]. | 5 images; 1 video | 2024-05-17T06:55:02.369Z | |
| 397 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Assault at 1730, photos at 11 on 9 | 17:30 | Langebrugsteeg | Injuries | I'm adding two pictures towards the documentation of the police brutality yesterday during and following the eviction of students from OHMP. The pictures were taken as I got home from the protests at 22.00 the 8/5th and this morning 9/5 around 11. The marks (on my right arm/back/shoulder) were left by a police baton, around 17.30 on the 8/5 as police violently pushed protestors back along the Langebrugsteeg towards Rokin. I am a staff member at the [omitted] department at the UvA and was protesting peacefully alongside colleagues, students and different supporters. I stayed at the protests, first in front of OHMP from 15.00-16.30, and then from around 17.30- 20. Please let me know if you need any other information or if I can assist in any way. | 2 images | 2024-05-17T17:35:16.008Z |
| 398 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Assault at 1730, photos at 11 on 9 | 17:30 | Langebrugsteeg | Injuries | I'm adding two pictures towards the documentation of the police brutality yesterday during and following the eviction of students from OHMP. The pictures were taken as I got home from the protests at 22.00 the 8/5th and this morning 9/5 around 11. The marks (on my right arm/back/shoulder) were left by a police baton, around 17.30 on the 8/5 as police violently pushed protestors back along the Langebrugsteeg towards Rokin. I am a staff member at the [omitted] department at the UvA and was protesting peacefully alongside colleagues, students and different supporters. I stayed at the protests, first in front of OHMP from 15.00-16.30, and then from around 17.30- 20. Please let me know if you need any other information or if I can assist in any way. | 2 images | 2024-05-17T17:35:16.104Z |
| 400 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 300 | 03:00 | Roeterseiland Campus, Eviction | Injuries | On Tuesday 7th, at 3 a.m., after the police bulldozed barricade C, I was violently beaten by multiple police officers. I have no recollection of the actual beating, but there are multiple videos circulating as I was on the front line of the barricade and one of the first people down. I remember regaining consciousness on the floor, my ears were heavily ringing and my glasses were broken so I couldn't see anything. My head was heavily bleeding and I got bruises on both my knees and legs. Two of my comrades helped me evacuate the encampment. While we were asking for an ambulance to take me to the hospital, the cops hit one of my comrades with a stick. We walked further down the street, then found an ambulance that refused to take me to the hospital. The healthcare worker was racist and discriminatory, completely disregarding the intensity of the injury and pain. I was told to go to the hospital on foot with my friends and that the wound just needed some glue and was neither deep nor wide. I eventually made it to the hospital and got charged 206.27 euros for the doctor's consultation. The doctor said the wound was deep and that I needed stitches, I got three, I received no aftercare advice and wasn't told anything further about the later consequences. I also want to mention that every single healthcare worker (4 people) I encountered implied that I deserved this because I did not listen to the cops and found it funny. Attached, you can find pictures of the injuries | 7 images | 2024-05-17T17:56:40.819Z |
| 401 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 1715-1800 | 17:15-18:00 | Oudezijds Achterburgwal | Police Violence | For 08-05, videos are shot from 17:20 to 18:00. For 09-05: police we aggressive since their arrival, already in position to attack when we were walking pacifically. They started harassing and pushing a girl into the floor and later into some bikes (which is simply inhuman because she was bound to get hurt in between those bikes) - I added a 9 seconds video of the aftermath so perhaps you could find the full video of the same girl, because it was so non-sensical. The girl was trying to leave/escape, walking non-aggressively, then the police hit her. Also, the lady with purple hair was just recording / photographing the violence and the police came to push her multiple times, to intimidate her - you can see some in the 1:09 video (recorded at 20:53, at Spui). Thanks for doing this and good luck! Hope they face reprimands for their actions. | 4 videos | 2024-05-17T18:23:42.065Z |
| 402 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | Afternoon | Afternoon | Nationaal Holocaust Namenmonument | [omitted] Langere video laat instantie politiegeweld Weesperstraat zien. Vreedzame mars escaleert zodra politie de plek rond busje vrij wil maken/niet in staat is de menigte om te draaien. Blond meisje wordt geslagen, niet direct te zien op video maar de aanleiding wel. Kortere video laat momenten vlak daarvoor zien, vreedzame mars geleid door non-ME agenten — wordt pas eng als de ME er staat. Context/mijn POV: Compleet vreedzaam tot dit moment, ik was zelf in shock. Eerste protest waar ik ooit bij meeliep, en nog nooit zoiets gezien — persoonlijk denk ik nu ook twee keer na om weer te gaan protesteren, ik had er makkelijk tussen kunnen staan. Zag ook meerdere mensen fysiek klemgereden tussen politiebusjes op de weesperstraat, maar daar heb ik geen duidelijke video van. Geen idee of die mensen gewond waren, maar zag er heel ernstig uit. Politierespons was duidelijk chaotisch, misschien omdat ze te weinig man hadden, maar de escalatie op de Weesperstraat om zogenaamd het namenmonument te beschermen was vanuit mijn perspectief (vooraan de mars) eenzijdig vanuit de ME. Hoop dat dit iets helpt, zo niet no worries. Dank voor dit te doen, erg belangrijk werk ❤️ [omitted] | 1 video | 2024-05-17T18:30:02.030Z | |
| 403 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 1937 | 19:37 | Rokin | Police Violence | 8th of May, 19:37, Rokin riot police attacking people at the support demo after they bulldozed the oudemanhusipoort encampment and terrorized the supporters out. we were sitting in at rokin and chanting peacefully. the cops would start hitting and dragging whenever they got the chance. | 1 video | 2024-05-17T18:33:42.363Z |
| 404 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Post eviction | Post Eviction | Rembrandtplein | Injuries | Hi, this was wednesday evening, it happened right before we were chased to rembrandtplein. I am [omitted]. I will put in the pictures of my bruises (pictures taken today on sunday), and [omitted]. Thank you! | 7 images | 2024-05-17T18:38:11.774Z |
| 405 | Amsterdam | 2024-08-05T00:00:00Z | Before eviction | Pre Eviction | Binnengasthuis | Barricades | 2024-05-17T21:09:35.034Z | ||
| 406 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 15:23 | 15:23 | Roeterseiland Campus | Police Violence; Demonstrations | Riot police was lined up in front of students, on the right side of the entrance to the main building of the Roeterseiland campus. In order to get to the entrance and reach the student encampment, police attacked students without warning, and without even trying to push us aside first. Students were hit by batons all over their bodies (for me, it was my hand, which still hurts after 4 days), and some were hit while they were on the ground, or while they were helping someone get up (that’s what happened to me). The video was taken roughly 5 seconds after it all started. | 1 video | 2024-05-17T21:57:31.907Z |
| 407 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-17T00:00:00Z | 17 | 17:00 | 1 video | 2024-05-17T23:09:54.818Z | |||
| 408 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-17T00:00:00Z | 19 55 | 19:55 | City Hall | Police Violence; Eviction; Beating; Horse; Fight | we were having speeches inside. they used force on us and rode into us with horses. someone got beaten inside until they limped. a police van almost ran people over and hit a lamppost. they blocked the streets when we tried to march so we had to disperse | 2 videos | 2024-05-17T23:19:52.556Z |
| 409 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-17T00:00:00Z | 20:00 | 20:00 | Stopera | Police Violence | 1 video | 2024-05-17T23:27:10.612Z | |
| 410 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-17T00:00:00Z | Between | Unknown | 2024-05-17T23:27:42.679Z | ||||
| 411 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-17T00:00:00Z | 20:30 | 20:30 | Stopera | Police Violence | 2 videos | 2024-05-17T23:29:55.933Z | |
| 412 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-17T00:00:00Z | Late noon | Afternoon | Stopera | Police Violence; Eviction | Police forced people out the city hall and arrived on horseback. | 2 images; 4 videos | 2024-05-17T23:32:23.834Z |
| 413 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-18T00:00:00Z | 19.5 | 19:50 | 2024-05-18T00:39:42.755Z | ||||
| 414 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 18 | 18:00 | Rokin 104 | Police Violence | I arrived to the support demo around 18, where a police circle was covering some vans, where I believe that arrested protestors where, and we where demonstrating in front of them. A few hours before the second Amsterdam encampment had been dismantled. When I got to the concentration in Rokin I asked a girl what was going on, and she said that we were just protesting, but police was trying to disperse us from time to time. While I was talking to her a police van begun to try to run over the protestors, so people asked us to go to the center and sit. I did that, and the police begun to hit. I remained sat. Police requested us to leave and they begun to hit me with the stick in my legs and arms. I asked them why are they violent. They keep the aggression going and ask me to stand up and go. However, when I stood up they pushed me and made fall over some other protestors behind me. I stood up again, and then some of the covered police grabbed me into the police circle. He shouted to the other policemen ""deze wat?"", and after some time, maybe 1 minute, he took me out of the circle. I did not understand what happened. I sat again, next to a girl that looked paralized and was being hugged by another girl, and police begun to hit again. I told them that I wouldn't move, as the person next to me could not. They disagreed, kept hitting and I begun to walk away. When I was walking away to they hitted me again, despite I was clearly leaving the inner part. The paralized girl surrounded by the police and the last hit I received when leaving were recorded by NOS [omitted]. | 2 images | 2024-05-18T07:52:39.197Z |
| 415 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-17T00:00:00Z | 8pm | 20:00 | Stopera, Waterlooplein | Police Violence | The police came with horses and started charging the students with horses. These assholes were alao beating the students with sticks while charging them with horses. Just for you to know, a horse can kill someone… | 1 video | 2024-05-18T08:21:37.718Z |
| 416 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-18T00:00:00Z | 19.55 | 19:55 | Stopera | Police Violence | Footage of someone who got beat over the head, and of protester who were sitting down in the opera hall getting dragged out | 1 video | 2024-05-18T12:08:57.748Z |
| 417 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 03:25 | 03:25 | Roeterseiland Campus | Police Violence | Police violence when we were sitting on the floor | 1 video | 2024-05-18T13:23:32.789Z |
| 418 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17:19 | 17:19 | Oudemanhuispoort, “BG-Terrein” | We just stood in front of the barricade, didn’t throw anything, didn’t use fire exstinghui | 1 video | 2024-05-18T15:45:01.419Z | |
| 419 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-11T00:00:00Z | Between 17:28-17:33 | 17:28-17:33 | Around 24 Hobbemastraat | Police Arresting Suspect | After a loud noise and people running out of the Museumplein park just in front of the stage (stage left, so on the side with the US embassy) I walked to get out of the area. This was the day of the peaceful Nakba day protest. I’m including also images of some men wearing tight jeans and black or blue tshirts and one wearing a mask. They would be described by me as cops or proud boy looking, tall and in-shape seeming white men. The photographs of this suspect on the ground were definitely the same person. | 3 images | 2024-05-18T18:43:30.574Z |
| 420 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 20:09 | 20:09 | On Dam Square | Police Violence; Romeos Undercover | A dark blue police with under cover cops (romeos) drove towards us on the Dam Square and violently took someone away. | 1 video | 2024-05-18T19:24:40.112Z |
| 421 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | All day | Day | Oudezijds Achterburgwal, around Rokin metro | Police Violence; Barricades; Demonstrations | Some pictures of what happened in Amsterdam on the 8th of may. It starts at the oudezijds achterburgwal with the blockades and ends on Rokin | 10 images | 2024-05-18T20:03:13.957Z |
| 422 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 10:15, 10:30ish at night | 22:15; 22:30 | Either Pardenstraat or Wagenstraat Amsterdam | Police Violence | The police had been chasing us down the Rokin and at some point the group of people I was running away with ran into a side street. It was here that one of the friends I was with fell down. I was worried that they would be trampled, so I went to protect their body and this was when police hit me on my lower back with a baton. Thankfully my friend remained physically unharmed. At this time, my friend and I were separated from everyone else and surrounded by police. I don't remember what they were shouting. When my friend and I got off from the ground, we instantly put our hands up and screamed that we were leaving. They let us leave and one policeman started following us for a little bit but then left us alone. | 2024-05-19T15:22:06.911Z | |
| 423 | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | afternoon | Afternoon | Oudezijds Achterburgwal | 2 images; 13 videos | 2024-05-20T09:52:46.740Z | |||
| 424 | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | afternoon | Afternoon | Oudezijds Achterburgwal | 13 images; 76 videos | 2024-05-20T09:59:48.149Z | |||
| 425 | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | afternoon | Afternoon | Oudezijds Achterburgwal | 48 videos | 2024-05-20T10:19:03.790Z | |||
| 426 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-17T00:00:00Z | 19:57 | 19:57 | Stopera | Demonstrations | 19:57, nadat politie studenten uit Stopera had geduwd 20:06, politie heeft mensen gearresteerd en in busje gestopt. | 1 video | 2024-05-23T09:49:55.991Z |
| 427 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-17T00:00:00Z | Afternoon | Afternoon | Stopera | Speech | Speech from Mitchell Esaisas from the black archives | 1 video | 2024-05-23T10:02:12.097Z |
| 428 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Evening | Evening | Oudezijds Achterburgwal | Police Violence | To whom it may concern, On the 8th of May I attended the solidarity protest outside the Uva building on the oudezijds achterburgwal arriving in the general area around 17.45. I was on the street oudezijds voorburgwal when I witnessed two separate instances of police violence. I was on the right side of the canal (if you are facing towards the grimburgwal not with your back to it). Incident 1. I was present around 18.00 at the location above mentioned when the police began to demand we move further and further back towards the direction of the makelaarsbruggetje. As we were trying to do so a man had to turn his bicycle to go in the direction the police were demanding. This took a few moments as the bike was facing sideways and the police were standing very close making mobility difficult. Apparently they did not find our movement fast enough and they began hitting the protestors including the head of a young girl directly next to me with a baton. She cried out in pain and was visibly shaken. Incident 2. On the opposite side of the canal maybe not even a full 2 minutes since incident 1, incident 2 occurred. It happened nearly exactly where the kuiperssteeg and oudezijds voorburgwal meet but on the left side of the canal (where I was not standing) on a sort of jetty or wooden structure. I heard shouting from the people around me and was told that a homeless person had been hit, i was not able to see this with my own eyes but the person who accompanied me to the protest and other bystanders told me that this person had been hit. This was we believe in order to make him move from where he was lying/maybe sleeping and what i saw was immediately afterwards when he was surrounded by the police while he had to get up, readjust his clothes and move to accommodate the police's demands. All my interactions were with police that had shields and batons. If you need anything further from me let me know. Best, | 2024-05-23T10:03:42.926Z | |
| 429 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | Afternoon | Afternoon | Roeterseiland Campus | Demonstrations | Shite Guides footage of person suspected of allegedly smashing a tv | 1 video | 2024-05-23T10:11:12.715Z |
| 430 | 2024-05-06T00:00:00Z | Eviction Time 0300 | 03:00 | Roeterseiland Campus | Hi there, Just to be sure, I'll formulate in English: we live across the canal from Roeterseiland, so we had a clear view of the original UvA-encampment and the brutal police raid that followed in the night. The videos will show the bulldozers destroying the barricades and the cops surrounding the last protesters. I guess the files were too big, because it didn't work through the mokumkraakt-website. Hopefully the link below will be (easily) accessible for you - and otherwise, please inform me. [omitted] I hope to join a demo soon again. May the Force be with you guys! | 5 images; 4 videos | 2024-05-23T10:22:15.103Z | ||
| 432 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17.55 | 17:55 | Oudemanhuispoort | Demonstrations; Eviction; Barricades; Police Violence | Police riots | 1 video | 2024-05-23T14:33:40.832Z |
| 433 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 13.41 | 13:41 | Roeterseiland Campus | Demonstrations | The students of the UvA went inside the ABC and D building on Roeterseiland. This video was moments after the walk-out ended at 13.00 and moments before a new encampment started. Students were walking and chanting. Riot police had not yet arrived. UvA told us shortly after to leave the building | 1 video | 2024-05-23T14:36:17.509Z |
| 434 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 15:32 | 15:32 | Roeterseiland Campus | Police Violence | Police beating and driving their way through protesters | 1 video | 2024-05-23T14:38:58.241Z |
| 435 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 18:35 | 18:35 | Oudemanhuispoort | Barricades; Demonstrations | Students have occupied the OMHP demanding UvA cuts all ties with Israeli institutions, surrounded by a peaceful support demo. | 2 images; 2 videos | 2024-05-23T15:00:37.327Z |
| 436 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 13:54 | 13:54 | Oudemanhuispoort | Barricades; Demonstrations | Students have occupied the OMHP demanding UvA cuts all ties with Israeli institutions, accompanied by a peaceful support demo. Protestors are denying access to a (right wing) media journalist to ensure the privacy of students. | 2 videos | 2024-05-23T15:05:29.416Z |
| 437 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-06T00:00:00Z | From 19:17 till 23:32 | 19:17-23:32 | Roeterseiland Campus | Demonstrations | Came to the encampent to bring supplies like camping chairs and camping table and water and paracetamol. When first warning was given I left encampment and joined the support demo on the other side. This was the situation from 19:17 till 20:26 before the zionist attack. | 1 image; 6 videos | 2024-05-23T15:05:53.828Z |
| 438 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-06T00:00:00Z | 19:17 till 23:21 | 19:17-23:21 | Roeterseiland Campus | Outside Agitators | Came to the encampent to bring supplies like camping chairs and camping table and water and paracetamol. When first warning was given I left encampment and joined the support demo on the other side. Only footage I have of zionist attack | 1 video | 2024-05-23T15:07:34.373Z |
| 439 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-06T00:00:00Z | 19:17 till 23.21 | 19:17-23:21 | Roeterseiland Campus | Demonstrations | Came to the encampent to bring supplies like camping chairs and camping table and water and paracetamol. When first warning was given I left encampment and joined the support demo on the other side. The situation after the Zionist attack. This was between 20:59 till 22:21 and the first warning has been given. First video 20:59 Second video 21:07 Third video 21:23 Fourth video 21:27 Fifth video 21:38 Sixth video 21:44 Seventh video 22:02 Eight video 22:19 Ninth video 22:20 Tenth video 22:21 | 10 videos | 2024-05-23T15:36:55.254Z |
| 440 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-17T00:00:00Z | 6:30 | 18:30 | Stopera | Police Violence | Police began hitting protesters with their police vans. They started attacking protesters after asking them to leave the opera building but never giving them the time to do so. Here protestors try to stop the movement of police cars | 3 images | 2024-05-23T15:47:00.212Z |
| 441 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | All day | Day | Oudemanhuispoort, Rokin, Rembrandtplein | Demonstrations; Police Violence | Pictures of the protests from around 16:30 to 23:30 | 10 images | 2024-05-23T16:44:29.775Z |
| 442 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | All day | Day | UvA | Barricades | No direct incidents captured | 10 images | 2024-05-23T17:50:06.509Z |
| 443 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-11T00:00:00Z | All day | Day | Rokin towards Museumplein | Demonstrations | People protesting peacefully | 10 images | 2024-05-23T17:52:47.041Z |
| 444 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-14T00:00:00Z | Around 14:00/15:00 | 14:00-15:00 | Roeterseiland Campus | Demonstrations | The protest, police closing in on the building | 10 images | 2024-05-23T17:55:20.796Z |
| 446 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-19T00:00:00Z | Around 15:00 | 15:00 | Centraal Station | Demonstrations | People peacefully protesting and dancing and educating people in front of CS | 3 images | 2024-05-23T17:57:20.754Z |
| 447 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | All day | Day | UvA | Demonstrations | Begin of the protest | 10 images | 2024-05-23T18:01:29.921Z |
| 448 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | noon | 12:00 | Roeterseiland Campus | Police Violence; Speech; Demonstrations | Support demo and march after first encampment at roeters was evicted | 9 images | 2024-05-23T18:05:53.365Z |
| 449 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 17.2 | 17:20 | Oudemanhuispoort | Injuries; Police Violence | (Im submitting this on behalf of a 69 year old USA citizen, her name is [omitted]) After the call to not hinder the police (which was in Dutch) she did not understand what was happening. After a short while, she understood that she needed to leave. The riot police was already standing in the way and it was hard for her to leave. One officer hit her and she fell with her face flat on the floor, hearing a crack from her nose. She was trying to get up, but the officer hit her again so she stayed down. One student carried her out of the masses and brought her to safety. This is where she came to me and she stayed with me the whole evening, as she was really dizzy. The USA embassy was no help either. | 2 images | 2024-05-23T19:18:35.644Z |
| 450 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | 20:00 - 20:30 | 20:00-20:30 | Binnengasthuis Administratiegebouw | People were gathering, chanting and sharing words. Started making a barracade and started passing by bricks. People outside brought necessities. | 4 images; 5 videos | 2024-05-23T20:16:10.030Z | |
| 451 | Somewhere else (please specify) | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 15:30 | 15:30 | Publication | Press/ Media Articles | Publication in Volkskrant where the ambassador of israel claims the protests should call for an end to ""hamas regime"" in Gaza | 1 document | 2024-05-23T20:41:55.066Z |
| 452 | Somewhere else (please specify) | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | daytime | Day | Publication | Press/ Media Articles | Publication by Telegraaf describing Palestinian prisoner's solidarity network Samidoun as a ""violence-club"", that reads like a zionist propaganda piece encouraging violence against pro-palestine protestors | 1 document | 2024-05-23T20:45:48.327Z |
| 453 | Somewhere else (please specify) | 2024-05-18T00:00:00Z | daytime | Day | Publication | Press/ Media Articles | Piece in Parool from the perspective of a riot cop | 1 document | 2024-05-23T20:50:07.953Z |
| 454 | Somewhere else (please specify) | 2024-05-16T00:00:00Z | 18 | 18:00 | Den Haag Leiden University campus Wijnhaven | Demonstrations | 3 videos | 2024-05-23T22:09:02.280Z | |
| 457 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 16:10-16-25 | 16:10-16:25 | Roeterseiland Campus | Demonstrations; Eviction; Police Violence | It was the day of the walk-out. Some protestors started occupying the ABC building. At around 4pm a group of them were violently ‘escorted’ by riot police to leave the premises. They were beaten by batons, even though there was barely any space for them to walk. They also were pushed into two different directions, after it seemed like one way was not efficient due to the crowds that were blocking riot police. I was standing on the other side of the water, me and other people were yelling very loudly ‘stop’ ‘they can’t move’ ‘don’t hit them’, etc. | 1 video | 2024-05-24T08:55:33.529Z |
| 458 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 9pm | 21:00 | Rokin, Metro Station | Injuries; Police Violence | Multiple officers started running towards the protesters and beat them up. Even though protesters started leaving the area, the police didn’t stop beating up students and even held some of them back (me included). Multiple officers beat on me and would not let me go but luckily some protesters managed to get me out of the situation and pulled me into the crowd from where I was taken to First Aid. One of the protesters who helped me got beaten up in my place. They used beating sticks and went for my head for most of the time (and neck). I still have a bump on my head and the first few days after the incident I experienced concussion symptoms. I had bumps on my shoulder blades and bruises and hematoma on both of my upper arms. One of the Hematoma is still present and hurts (as well as the bump on my head). While I was beaten up my glasses fell down and I was not able yo retrieve them. I screamed multiple times for them to stop. I also told them that I couldn’t breathe and people around me screamed too but the officers ignored it. | 7 images; 3 videos | 2024-05-24T12:20:46.252Z |
| 459 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | between 3 and 6 pm | 15:00-18:00 | Oudemanhuispoort | Injuries; Academic "suicide" Mission | I was peacefully protesting with my marching snaredrum (I study jazz drums at CvA), keeping up the morale for our comrades behind the barricades, when a buldozer started pushing through and riotpigs barged over the obstacles, swinging their batons like whips. I kept playing my drum, as is audible from many clips from that day, until a piggy confronted me with his big black dildo stick and immediately started hitting me on my palms, fingers, legs, neck and back. I lost 3 pairs of drumsticks that day (~40€ in damage) as the piggy tossed them in the canal. Due to injuries and out of protest, I canceled my final recital at the CvA. Sustained some blue spots, one of which is going to become a tattoo of a piggy with a hat. They may break my sticks, but not my spirit! | 7 images | 2024-05-24T12:56:20.113Z |
| 460 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-24T00:00:00Z | From 16:00 to night | 16:00-00:00 | Oudemanhuispoort, Rokin, Rembrandtplein | 2024-05-24T13:03:15.983Z | |||
| 461 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 16:00 - night | 16:00-00:00 | Oudemanhuispoort, Rokin, Rembrandtplein | Police Violence | Woensdagmiddag 8 mei is er een support demonstratie voor de studenten in het solidaire kamp bij de Oudemanhuispoort die daar de afgelopen nacht en dag hebben doorgebracht. Opnieuw besluiten de universiteit en de gemeente om politie op ze af te sturen om de studenten uit het gebouwde kamp te krijgen. De aanwezigheid politie in het oude stadscentrum is extreem. De intimidatie is van een niveau niet eerder geobserveerd. Van alle kanten worden rijen oproer polities opgesteld met stokken. Groepen demonstranten die solidair zijn met de beweging stellen zich in rijen op zodat de politie er niet door heen kan. Ze worden geïntimideerd door duwen te krijgen met het schild en de stokken die de politie in handen hebben. Vervolgens kunnen ze een klap verwachten. Mensen vallen om en er blijft gemept worden. Mensen met bebloede hoofden lopen langs. De menigte wordt op verschrikkelijke en intense manier tegen elkaar aangedrukt om ze vervolgens met vaart een richting uit te sturen. Ademen blijkt lastig, paniek is voelbaar in alle lichamen die zich tegen elkaar aandrukken, niemand is bewapend en de politie blijft maar intimideren en meppen uitdelen naar degene die zich aan de buitenkant van de menigte bevinden. Op het Rokin verzamelen mensen zich later die middag in solidariteit met alle gearresteerden. De politie probeert de menigte te manipuleren en te intimideren met honden, stokken, met busjes die de menigte inrijden, en met een soort van intimiderende politie met een zwart vest en een zwarte bedekking over het hoofd, die uit het niets de menigte in springen en beginnen te meppen of mensen beginnen weg te trekken in een soort van gymnastische sprong. Klappen worden uitgedeeld op lichaamsdelen en op de hoofden en de nek. Op vreedzame studenten die zich uitspreken tegen de genocide moord in Gaza. Ik herhaal. Klappen worden uitgedeeld op vreedzame studenten die het leed van de wereld niet langer aan kunnen zien, met pijn in hun hart en ziel chants roepen over straat zodat het instituut waar ze collegegeld aan betalen en dat hun kritisch leert denken en analyseren stopt gelinkt te zijn met de genocidemoord in Palestina. Diezelfde avond, 8 mei, op het Rembrandtplein, stopt er plots een zwart politiebusje, het is rustig, er zijn meerdere drones over het plein gevlogen, er springen 3 a 4 politieagenten uit met een zwart vest en zwarte bedekking over het hoofd en ze gooien 1 persoon in secondes het busje in. Ze springen wat voor het busje en checken of er niemand op ze af komt en ze rijden weg. Er wordt iemand in het geheim van straat geplukt, afgevoerd, en we hebben geen idee waar deze persoon naar toegebracht wordt en hoe deze persoon behandeld zal worden. Ontvoerd door de politie. | 1 image; 1 video | 2024-05-24T13:09:31.672Z |
| 462 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Afternoon | Afternoon | Oudemanhuispoort | Police Violence | 1 video | 2024-05-24T13:27:18.349Z | |
| 463 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | from 21.45 - 22.00 | 21:45-22:00 | Rokin | Police Violence | So this wednesday after work i saw that after the first two days of student protesting at uva, it was still going on. They even called everyone to come support. Since i wanted to show my support for the students as well as palestina, i decided to come have a look. This was around 7 or 8. I really enjoyed the first ours. At some point i was standing at the rokin metro escalators. Thats when some people started shouting: the police is coming from dam. After this it al went very quick. I remember turning around, and see people panicking and running. This is when i started filming. Note: i think the police was over aggresive and i never heard anyone say we werent allowed to stand there anymore. So de violence came out of nowhere. I got hit too. | 4 videos | 2024-05-24T15:39:22.960Z |
| 464 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 18:30 | 18:30 | Rokin, Langebrugsteeg | Police Violence; Demonstrations; Injuries | On 8th May 2024, at 18:30 I was in front of the Riot Police, when they were blocking the Roikin Langebrugsteeg. While being there, I saw an officer of the Riot Police hitting a guy on the head, without being provoked. I went over there to tell that police officer how dangerous it is what he was doing, because it can give long term damage. I was standing with a small group of 2 to 3 people. We interlocked our arms together, and we were standing directly across the Riot Police. Then, we proceed to say: “shame of you”. We were not violent; we were peacefully protesting. I have footage with those Riot Police officers in question. After 10 minutes they got a signal, somebody signaled to them, with a hand gesture, and from that moment I got hit in the head from the same police officer I was talking with previously. He hit me 5 times, while I was actively getting away. He hit me on the head. I protected myself with my hand, while my finger, elbow and shoulder got hit in the process. I was trying to get away, but he just kept hitting me. As soon as I was able to get away, I reached with my hands and touched the back of my head and I’ve noticed there was blood on the back of my skull, coming from multiple places. After that I got help from fallow protestors, but not from police. Somebody living nearby hid me from the chaos, inside of a building. It took me two hours, from the moment I was beaten, to reach the emergency room. It took me so long to reach the emergency room, because I had to walk over there, as there were no ambulances coming through and the rounds were closed. | 8 images; 2 videos | 2024-05-24T15:46:33.796Z |
| 465 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Eviction Time | Eviction | Oudezijds Achterburgwal | Injuries; Police Violence; Police Intimidation | Hello, I wanted to upload this video on the website but it didnt work, so therefore I will send it here. I prefer to be contacted at this email: [omitted]. With warm wishes, | 1 video | 2024-05-24T16:53:04.193Z |
| 466 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-06T00:00:00Z | Evening | Evening | Roeterseiland Campus | Barricades; Police; Demonstrations | Hoi! Here in the link some of my photos and videos, organised per date (6, 7, 8 May). 6 May shows the encampment at Roeters, 7 May the protest march from Roeters to OMHP and the occupation there, 8 May the occupation and barricades and later the police presence in the city after the eviction. No idea if it's useful but hope it is! | 5 images; 1 video | 2024-05-24T16:58:09.324Z |
| 467 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-24T00:00:00Z | around 21, 21:30 | 21:00; 21:30 | Rokin | Injuries; Police Violence | The riot police ran towards us from Dam square and trapped us as there was police in front as well. I was holding my two friends close when they started beating all of us. They beat both my legs, then my head repeatedly. They also beat one of my friends on her legs and she fell, I grabbed her before the cop was about to beat her in her ribcage area. I think they beat the legs purposely for us to fall. My other friend was beat in their arm and the three of us were generally beat multiple time over the head. They then continued to beat us as we were trying to leave, with both hands in the air and chanting “we are peaceful what are you”. We walked away from them with a large group of comrades for about twenty minutes, telling each other not to disperse or run as they continued to beat us. | 7 images | 2024-05-24T17:01:55.476Z |
| 468 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | Oudezijds Achterburgwal | Barricades; Police | Ed Note - media bank JA 07/05 Useful - shows route from REC to OMHP Hoi! Here in the link some of my photos and videos, organised per date (6, 7, 8 May). 6 May shows the encampment at Roeters, 7 May the protest march from Roeters to OMHP and the occupation there, 8 May the occupation and barricades and later the police presence in the city after the eviction. No idea if it's useful but hope it is! | 17 images; 5 videos | 2024-05-24T17:02:38.333Z | ||
| 469 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Eviction Time | Eviction | Rokin | Barricades; Police Officers; Demonstrations | Ed note - shows clear police mobilisations around Rokin that we don't have much footage of. Important. Hoi! Here in the link some of my photos and videos, organised per date (6, 7, 8 May). 6 May shows the encampment at Roeters, 7 May the protest march from Roeters to OMHP and the occupation there, 8 May the occupation and barricades and later the police presence in the city after the eviction. No idea if it's useful but hope it is! | 19 images; 8 videos | 2024-05-24T17:06:23.463Z |
| 470 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-17T00:00:00Z | Around 18h30 | 18:30 | Stopera | Speech | 1 video | 2024-05-24T18:26:07.942Z | |
| 471 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-17T00:00:00Z | 20:00 | 20:00 | City Hall, Stopera, Waterlooplein | Police Violence | People were peacefully inside the City Hall building and after a while the police demanded that we left. Most of us were leaving willingly but some few people sat on the floor as a form of protest. Instead of trying to carry them out the police started to drag them out of the building in an unnecessary and violent way. When they were met with resistance from the protesters who were trying to get their friends out or remaining by the doors, the police got violent and used batons on us. Later, two cops on horses also went through the crowd to create chaos. After, when we were planning on peacefully walking to the Damn, we all witnessed someone being snatched by undercover cops and ME. The protesters moved to try to stop it and get in the way of the van. Although some protesters started to hit the van, the police van started to push through the people. Another police van later rushed to help the first one, going at an unnecessary speed, which was extremely dangerous and scary. It felt like they didnt care if they could run over someone or not, and at that speed, they would have seriously injured or killed someone. The videos are of the police violence inside the Stopera and right outside of it. | 4 videos | 2024-05-24T18:51:08.135Z |
| 472 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | 12:00 | 12:00 | Roeterseiland Campus | Demonstrations | ME kwam opdagen na vreedzaam protest. Ik weet niet of je hier wat aan hebt | 3 images; 7 videos | 2024-05-25T05:17:33.943Z |
| 473 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | 20:00 | 20:00 | Rokin, Metro Station | Demonstrations | sharing my analog pictures from the protest at Rokin on 8th of may | 7 images | 2024-05-27T12:14:30.144Z |
| 474 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-10T00:00:00Z | All day | Day | Press/ Media Articles | Link to interviews in the aftermath of the Amsterdam encampment being brutally destroyed: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6yr8vTIUWu/ | 2024-05-27T13:09:45.459Z | ||
| 475 | Somewhere else (please specify) | 2024-05-17T00:00:00Z | Around 6pm | 18:00 | Leiden University Wijnhaven The Hague | Demonstrations | Link to interviews from the Leiden Uni (Hague campus) encampment: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7EFPPUo6Eh/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== | 2024-05-27T13:11:33.990Z | |
| 476 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-27T00:00:00Z | 17:15 | 17:15 | Dam | Police Repression; Demonstrations | A demonstration at the US Consulate earlier marched to Dam Square, where a zionist demonstration was taking place. Riot cops are blocking them from joining and seem to encircle the protesters. Not sure if there was any aggression at the embassy earlier | 1 image; 3 videos | 2024-05-27T15:34:27.861Z |
| 477 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-27T00:00:00Z | 17:40 | 17:40 | Dam | Police Repression | At 18:00 we’re still blocked like you see in the videos | 2 videos | 2024-05-27T16:08:00.014Z |
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| 479 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-27T00:00:00Z | 18:10 | 18:10 | Dam | Police Violence | 1 video | 2024-05-27T20:46:49.922Z | |
| 480 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-27T00:00:00Z | 18-20 h | 18:00-20:00 | Dam | Police Repression; Police Violence; Demonstrations | Joined the prostest after seeing the instagram profiles calling for people to the Dam. When i got there, the main square was packed with police. I joined the group who was cut off from the rest of the protesters stuck in Kalverstraat, watching the students being arrested from the other side of the buses the police used to separete us. After the police arrested a small group that was cut off, the protestors tried to stop the buses that held arrested students but because of the police violence and using force against peacful young men and women they were able to break the number of the crowd and take the arrested to the prison. | 6 videos | 2024-05-28T10:19:20.505Z |
| 481 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-27T00:00:00Z | 17:45 | 17:45 | Dam | Police Violence | Abuse by cops on arrestee bus after protestors got kettled and blocked | 1 video | 2024-05-28T14:29:48.271Z |
| 482 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-27T00:00:00Z | 18:00 - 19:00 | 18:00-19:00 | Dam Square, Kalverstraat | Police Violence; Injuries; Police Repression; Demonstrations; Barricades | - Peaceful group of pro Palestine demonstrators walking to and gathering at Dam Square following the horrific murders that took place again in Rafa on Sunday evening - We, the peaceful protestors were separated into smaller groups by the police / riot police by means of intimidation (inc dogs), violence (battens and throwing of chairs/bikes by police at us), police vans and public buses. - it started by blocking those walking up kalverstraat to Dam Square from reaching Dam Square. They were separated from us (peaceful pro- Palestine protesters on Dam Square) with a line of riot polite with full outfits inc battons, police vans, using a public bus as well. - Once we were split into these smaller groups: illegal snatching of peaceful protesters by the police into buses - x2 GVB Busses (public transport) filled with arrested protesters. People from kalverstraat were being dragged into the bus. - Protestors were also beaten in the bus by riot police. - With us on Dam Square watching and shouting and capturing this, the police pushed/drove there police vans between the bus (filled with those arrested) and those of us outside so we could no long see or capture what was happening inside the buses - We were being forcefully pushed further from those protestors with battons, dogs and police vans + the bus. During this time fully black clothed police kept swarming to us united protestors with heavier violence to snatch protestors (see slow-mo videos) to weaken and separate us even more. |
7 videos | 2024-05-28T16:01:08.162Z |
| 483 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-27T00:00:00Z | 18:00 - 19:00 | 18:00-19:00 | Dam Square, Kalverstraat | Barricades; Demonstrations; Police Violence; Police Repression; Injuries | - Peaceful group of pro Palestine demonstrators walking to and gathering at Dam Square following the horrific murders that took place again in Rafa on Sunday evening - We, the peaceful protestors were separated into smaller groups by the police / riot police by means of intimidation (inc dogs), violence (battens and throwing of chairs/bikes by police at us), police vans and public buses. - it started by blocking those walking up kalverstraat to Dam Square from reaching Dam Square. They were separated from us (peaceful pro- Palestine protesters on Dam Square) with a line of riot polite with full outfits inc battons, police vans, using a public bus as well. - Once we were split into these smaller groups: illegal snatching of peaceful protesters by the police into buses - x2 GVB Busses (public transport) filled with arrested protesters. People from kalverstraat were being dragged into the bus. - Protestors were also beaten in the bus by riot police. - With us on Dam Square watching and shouting and capturing this, the police pushed/drove there police vans between the bus (filled with those arrested) and those of us outside so we could no long see or capture what was happening inside the buses - We were being forcefully pushed further from those protestors with battons, dogs and police vans + the bus. During this time fully black clothed police kept swarming to us united protestors with heavier violence to snatch protestors (see slow-mo videos) to weaken and separate us even more. |
7 videos | 2024-05-28T16:03:14.767Z |
| 484 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z | 17:00 | 17:00 | Rokin | Police Violence | Police violence - running over students, beating up surrendering students | 2 videos | 2024-05-28T17:32:50.138Z |
| 485 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | All day | Day | Oudemanhuispoort | Demonstrations | 1 image; 4 videos | 2024-05-28T20:57:17.966Z | |
| 486 | The Hague | 2024-05-28T00:00:00Z | 20:20 | 20:20 | Tweede Kamer | Injuries; Bruises | The person I was treating as medic told me that he was trying to help a person who a cop pushed over. The cop than hit me hard on the hand and arm with a baton. Not sure yet if broken, but the hand is extremely swollen and a wound on the outside. | 2 images | 2024-05-28T21:22:38.991Z |
| 487 | The Hague | 2024-05-28T00:00:00Z | 20:00 | 20:00 | Tweede Kamer | Demonstrations; Police Repression; Police Violence | We organized a demonstration to demand the parliament stops their hypocrisy and talk about “red lines” while continues to support israel. We were not allowed to stay in front of pariament because the mayor didn't permit it amd were sent to the field behind at Bezuidenhoutseweg. We were required to leave but some of us didn't move while others did. The police started to escalate on all sides, also on the field. one instance, beating a seated protestor, took her megaphone while threatening more violence. | 9 videos | 2024-05-28T21:45:21.674Z |
| 488 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-27T00:00:00Z | Around 17:00 | 17:00 | Kalverstraat, Dam | Injuries; Demonstrations; Police Repression; Police Violence | After a sound demo at the usa consulate we marched from Museumplein to de Dam because of the fucking SGP. We went through the kalverstraat because police could not drive through there. The police tried to stop us at Spui and told me (I was somewhat the police liaison) that we were not allowed to go to the Dam. I told them it was in our right to be in seeing and hearing distance of our goal and we were not to be stoped. we ran into a small street that ended in the kalverstraat and from there we went on. after a few meters there where around 8 officers again trying to stop us. we ignored them, pushed them away and went on. An officer fell on the ground and the police started running. at the end of kalverstraat (by de dam) there was a line of like 25 cops. a lot of busses were blocking every entrance of de dam therefore every way out of the kalverstraat. from this point on we were very unsafe. around two third of our comrades went to go around the block and still got to de dam. in a sort amount of time a second line was formed after us. when the police started ordering us to go we could not leave because both lines where closed. I went over to every side and talkes with a lot of cops to please please let us out. I told them so many fucking times we wanted to leave but both of the sides of police lines told us we needed to leave trough the other side. so the damsquare side of police line said we needed to leave trough the kalverstraat side and vice verse. there were elderly people who wanted to leave, tourists, people with menstruation cramps. nobody was allowed to leave. in the end only the person on their period and their friend because I begged the cop and told him it was medical. after this we were trapped for I don't know how long maybe 1,5 hour? I talked with the cop I talked to the most and told him we were literally imprisoned. he said ' if you want to see it that way' WE COULD NOT LEAVE. after this te Romeo arrest team was very very violent. I saw people be beaten up in busses and I was freaking scared. I arrived at the police station at 19:15. I was let go at around 22:30. I gave up my identity. inside the bus while waiting it was very boring. we annoyed the fuck out of the police. FREE FREE PALESTINE | 2024-05-28T22:31:10.698Z | |
| 489 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-27T00:00:00Z | 1700 | 17:00 | Kalverstraat prisoner transport to | Police Station; Injuries; Arrest; Police Violence | On 29/05/2024 15:30,[omitted] wrote: > Location: Kalvestraat Time: around 19:00 > > > Description: > > Prior the moment I got arrested the 27/05/2024 > I did nothing wrong beside showing pictures from my phone of what's happening in Rafah and peacefully chanting. > They blocked us in Kalvestraat and lured us that we would leave after the third warning but they didn't let us leave, that's why even people who was just passingby got arrested. > They forced shops to close while was completely unecessary as we were 2 steps from Dam Square where most of the people was, but out of nowhere they trapped us. > I asked multiple times to leave, I have it also on video but even if they said they would allow us, they didn't , cause they wanted to arrest everyone, so after giving the last warning they actually didn't give the option to leave as it's supposed to be. > From the moment I stepped in the bus, I lived the most horrific experience of my life.. old disabled women, young women , young men, being beaten just for the pleasure to hurt us, provocating and agitating the group without ANY absolute reason. > We were all peaceful and they started literally THROWING people on the bus like potatoes bags. > Anyone who would go close to the other to ASSIST the injured got beaten, not for being violent towards the police but for assisting another person injured. > Once the doors closed and we started moving away from the croud in Dam Square they started beaten multiple people in the bus , reason why? The bus was constantly moving left right so people that were standing started losing balace, eventually pushing some cops a bit due to the steerings. > We spent basically the whole travel with police beating people unconditionally in the bus. > Particular attention to one guy from demonstrators that got heavily beaten, you could see bruises and scratches all over his arms and his front head very very swollen. > > [omitted] > > > Thank you comrades! > Free Palestine🇵🇸✊🏾 > --------------------------------------- On Wed, 29 May 2024 at 16:36, All Cats Are Beautiful <[omitted]> wrote: Hi, Thanks for this. Are you in contact with anyone else from this bus? If you are could you encourage them to send their testimony to the email or upload it to the portal? This is a very disturbing story and I would like to hear from other people. Coalition Against Police Violence Coalitie Tegen Politie Geweld https://intifada.mokumkraakt.nl/ ------------------------------- On 29/05/2024 19:19, [omitted] wrote: Unfortunately I didn't but I'm the one with the most videos and detailed but I could see none else expect another girl in the back of the bus with the phone. I was the only one filming how the guy got beaten.. after they put him on the ground they would switch between each other to beat him like: my turn, your turn Was HORRIBLE and I'm very worried about him if you can identify him from my videos.. When I was leaving I overheard a policeman talking about a guy heavily swollen and they didn't know if calling the Ambulance, I was afraid they were talking about him.. By the way this is my whole testimony of what I experienced in prison, it's pretty long and detailed hope you can read it through I risked my life overthere multiple times cause I suffer of an extreme rare disease they didn't believe me.. so basically they made me pick to give up one of my 2 rights.. or ether I get medical care, or I give my fingerprints. But you will find everything in my statement if you can also share it I would like that my story goes out. I will go after them with our lawyer. | 1 video | 2024-05-29T20:30:34.446Z |
| 491 | Rotterdam | 2024-02-06T00:00:00Z | 20.3 | 20:30 | Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (Erasmus Plaza) | Outside Agitators; Speech | There was a football match between Excelsior Rotterdam (whose stadium is next to the EUR campus) and NAC Breda. After the match, which resulted in Excelsior's relegation to a lower division, a few hundred Excelsior fans walked by the encampment, some of them sad and/or angry because of the match. We positioned a handful of stronger guys on the parameters of the encampment to form a kind of barricade, and thus to prevent football fans from going into the tents or destroying them. We tried not to escalate and avoided making long eye contact. Still, it happened twice that we were verbally intimidated by two separate (small) groups of what seemed to be football hooligans, wearing Stone Island and Fred Perry clothing. They were looking for trouble (e.g. by asking ""what are you looking at?!"" and saying that we should ""fuck off"" from here and to ""take your garbage with you"", and one of them saying some nonsense about taxpayers money and that he is paying for this ""mess""), but they didn't get any, because we were not looking for trouble with them. This tactic of having some stronger guys as deterrent but still having a de-escalating attitude worked well in this situation. Still, it reminded us how vulnerable we are with such a small group of people (we were with about 30 people, many of whom were scared already by the idea of football fans crossing the encampment). Also, football hooligans are a serious group we have to take into account more actively. This time it was Excelsior ""hooligans"", which cannot be taken too seriously, but there are bigger groups out there who can pose a serious danger to us, e,g. Feyenoord hooligans who have been repeatedly outspoken ""110% anti-Antifa"" (which makes them at least 100% fascist). How do we deal with such people if they decide to bother us? I feel like we cannot properly defend ourselves if necessary. | 2024-06-02T19:25:51.815Z | |
| 493 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-27T00:00:00Z | 18:00 - 19:30 | 18:00-19:30 | Dam Square, Kalverstraat | Peaceful group of pro Palestine demonstrators walking to and gathering at Dam Square following the horrific murders that took place again in Rafa on Sunday evening We, the peaceful protestors were separated into smaller groups by the police / riot police by means of intimidation (inc dogs), violence (battens and throwing of chairs/bikes by police at us), police vans and public buses. it started by blocking those walking up kalverstraat to Dam Square from reaching Dam Square. They were separated from us (peaceful pro- Palestine protesters on Dam Square) with a line of riot polite with full outfits inc battons, police vans, using a public bus as well. Once we were split into these smaller groups: illegal snatching of peaceful protesters by the police into buses - x2 GVB Busses (public transport) filled with arrested protesters. People from kalverstraat were being dragged into the bus. Protestors were also beaten in the bus by riot police. With us on Dam Square watching and shouting and capturing this, the police pushed/drove there police vans between the bus (filled with those arrested) and those of us outside so we could no long see or capture what was happening inside the buses We were being forcefully pushed further from those protestors with battons, dogs and police vans + the bus. During this time fully black clothed police kept swarming to us united protestors with heavier violence to snatch protestors (see slow-mo videos) to weaken and separate us even more. | 11 videos | 2024-06-04T08:09:20.463Z | |
| 494 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-27T00:00:00Z | around 19:00 | 19:00 | Kalverstraat | [omitted] I did nothing wrong beside showing pictures from my phone of what's happening in Rafah and peacefully chanting. They blocked us in Kalvestraat and lured us that we would leave after the third warning but they didn't let us leave, that's why even people who was just passingby got arrested. They forced shops to close while was completely unecessary as we were 2 steps from Dam Square where most of the people was, but out of nowhere they trapped us. I asked multiple times to leave, I have it also on video but even if they said they would allow us, they didn't , cause they wanted to arrest everyone, so after giving the last warning they actually didn't give the option to leave as it's supposed to be. From the moment I stepped in the bus, I lived the most horrific experience of my life.. old disabled women, young women , young men, being beaten just for the pleasure to hurt us, provocating and agitating the group without ANY absolute reason. We were all peaceful and they started literally THROWING people on the bus like potatoes bags. Anyone who would go close to the other to ASSIST the injured got beaten, not for being violent towards the police but for assisting another person injured. Once the doors closed and we started moving away from the croud in Dam Square they started beaten multiple people in the bus , reason why? The bus was constantly moving left right so people that were standing started losing balace, eventually pushing some cops a bit due to the steerings. We spent basically the whole travel with police beating people unconditionally in the bus. Particular attention to one guy from demonstrators that got heavily beaten, you could see bruises and scratches all over his arms and his front head very very swollen. Unfortunately I didn't but I'm the one with the most videos and detailed but I could see none else expect another girl in the back of the bus with the phone. I was the only one filming how the guy got beaten.. after they put him on the ground they would switch between each other to beat him like: my turn, your turn Was HORRIBLE and I'm very worried about him if you can identify him from my videos.. When I was leaving I overheard a policeman talking about a guy heavily swollen and they didn't know if calling the Ambulance, I was afraid they were talking about him.. By the way this is my whole testimony of what I experienced in prison, it's pretty long and detailed hope you can read it through I risked my life overthere multiple times cause I suffer of an extreme rare disease they didn't believe me.. so basically they made me pick to give up one of my 2 rights.. or ether I get medical care, or I give my fingerprints. But you will find everything in my statement if you can also share it I would like that my story goes out. I will go after them with our lawyer. | 6 videos | 2024-06-04T08:13:38.335Z | |
| 495 | 2024-05-31T00:00:00Z | not sure | Unknown | Tweede Kamer | Hi [omitted], I submit some footage I took during the demo at tweede kamer The Hague. I made a short compilation clip of the mostly unprovoked aggression from the police titled compilation.mp4. The rest are raw footage. [omittted] Since I do not have secure residency here, I could not actively participate too much within the demonstrations. But maybe I can at least document aggressions at these demos. Do you have any tips? For example, is it important to record the police officers' faces? Kind regards, [omitted] | 8 videos | 2024-06-04T08:22:02.238Z | ||
| 496 | The Hague | 2024-06-06T00:00:00Z | Ministry of Education | I attended the demo on Thursday where protestors attempted to occupy the ministry of education in The Hague. Recorded more aggression, notably from the same bald, ugly officer as the previous video, who escalated unprovoked. | 1 video | 2024-06-10T13:53:29.104Z | |||
| 497 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-06T00:00:00Z | 20:32 | 20:32 | Roeterseiland Campus | Scenes from the back of the Zionist attack | 1 video | 2024-06-13T10:24:54.734Z | |
| 498 | Amsterdam | 2024-06-13T00:00:00Z | 1820 | 18:20 | Grey car, rhijnspoorplein intersection rest from intersection s100 sgravenstrandestraat | Outside Agitators; Injuries; Demonstrations | We shut the intersections down grey car accelerated from standing still to crowd one meter away did not stop when he came in contact with protesters after a 20s struggle police came and I dipped | 4 images; 6 videos | 2024-06-13T16:56:36.753Z |
| 499 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-06T00:00:00Z | All day | Day | Injuries; Barricades; Demonstrations; Police Violence | Different photos and Videos of Actions in Amsterdam and one in Den Haag between the First Amsterdam encampment May 6 and June 21st. | 8 images; 2 videos | 2024-07-12T13:01:37.188Z | |
| 500 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-06T00:00:00Z | All day | Day | Barricades; Demonstrations | Different photos and Videos of the evening of our first Amsterdam Amsterdam encampment May 6 | 6 images; 4 videos | 2024-07-12T13:07:16.095Z | |
| 501 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-06T00:00:00Z | All day | Day | Police Repression; Demonstrations | Evening of the first encampment in Amsterdam (support demo, police eviction of support demo), and the morning after: protest at UvA | 5 images; 5 videos | 2024-07-12T13:14:14.433Z | |
| 502 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-07T00:00:00Z | All day | Day | Barricades; Demonstrations | Demonstration at REC the day after our first Amsterdam encampment and day 2 of our OMHP encampment | 7 images; 3 videos | 2024-07-12T13:24:05.822Z | |
| 503 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z | All day | Day | Demonstrations | staff walkout on REC on the 13.05.24; protest on the 27.05.24 in front of US embassy after bombings in Rafah | 9 images; 1 video | 2024-07-12T13:40:12.204Z | |
| 504 | The Hague | 2024-06-04T00:00:00Z | Afternoon | Afternoon | Demonstrations | First national action 04.06.24: national group of students and staff occupied rooms and balcony of UNL in The Hague | 6 images; 4 videos | 2024-07-12T13:59:27.778Z | |
| 505 | The Hague | 2024-06-04T00:00:00Z | Afternoon | Afternoon | Funny / Memes; Demonstrations; Police Repression | Occupation of UNL in Den Haag 04.06.24, where police suddenly circled and arrested us and put us into a bus few minutes after giving 1 warning in Dutch, although many were non-Dutch speaking and requested translation. Police man holding onto a bar with a sign on it that says not to hold on to it. Photos of bruises from police beating with baton on the second day of this national action on 06.06.24. | 8 images; 2 videos | 2024-07-12T14:12:07.075Z | |
| 506 | Amsterdam | 2024-06-21T00:00:00Z | All day | Day | Demonstrations; Barricades | Action at REC (occupation, demo) 21.06.24 | 3 images | 2024-07-12T14:15:08.202Z | |
| 507 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-27T00:00:00Z | aroun 18h | 18:00 | Dam | Police Violence | Live witness of the counter demonstration during the SGP-organised demonstration for Israel on the Dam. You can see the enclosing of protestors, arrestee vans start arriving around 55:00 min. At 57:55 you can see the arrestee team. You can see the arrest of the person filming happening from 58 minutes. At 59:52 you can see a person being carried into the arrestee van that the filmer was being taken into. From 01:00:50 you can see how a person in the bus was hit multiple times while he was sitting down on the floor of the bus. More violence happens inside the bus throughout the coming hour. It's good to look through both of the clips. | 1 video | 2024-08-19T18:38:35.906Z |
| 508 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-27T00:00:00Z | 18h | 18:00 | Dam | Police Violence | Live witness of the counter demonstration during the SGP-organised demonstration for Israel on the Dam. You can see the enclosing of protestors, arrestee vans start arriving around 55:00 min. At 57:55 you can see the arrestee team. You can see the arrest of the person filming happening from 58 minutes. At 59:52 you can see a person being carried into the arrestee van that the filmer was being taken into. From 01:00:50 you can see how a person in the bus was hit multiple times while he was sitting down on the floor of the bus. More violence happens inside the bus throughout the coming hour. It's good to look through both of the clips. | 1 video | 2024-08-19T18:43:16.195Z |
| 509 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 17:15h | 17:15 | Oudemanhuispoort | Extreme violence after being cornered by cops at OMHP | 3 videos | 2024-08-19T19:44:06.009Z | |
| 510 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-08T00:00:00Z | Around 21:50h | 21:50 | Near Vijzelgracht | Being beaten and chased walking Vijzelgracht, Reguliersdwarsstraat among others | 3 videos | 2024-08-19T20:01:16.811Z | |
| 511 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-16T00:00:00Z | around 16:30-16:35 | 16:30-16:35 | Roeterseiland Campus | Police Violence | Police was pushing solidarity protesters with those who occupied off the campus and after some meters started indiscriminately and restlessly hitting students and teachers. We were saying there is no space, stop and we are moving but they did not stop. The most violent one (from my observations) had red hair and is visible in the video. Then, students gathered between REC and Kriterion where a police van was driving into a crowd and people were holding him back. When the cop saw that I went up to the window to film his face, he quickly turned to get his own phone and I tried to disappear in the crowd. What bothered me was that he made it a point to take a picture of me WHILE he was driving into students, and I am pretty sure I can film cops. | 2 videos | 2024-09-23T09:50:15.480Z |
| 512 | Amsterdam | 2024-11-13T00:00:00Z | 17:00 | 17:00 | Dam | Police Repression; Injuries; Demonstrations; Police Violence | Op 13 november 2024 was ik aanwezig op de Dam in Amsterdam, waar een vreedzame demonstratie plaatsvond tegen genocide. Rond 18:00 uur werd de situatie steeds gespannener door de toename van politievoertuigen, waaronder politiebusjes, ME-wagens en agenten in uniform. Kort daarna verschenen ook agenten in burger, bekend als 'romeo’s', die zich in de menigte mengden en aanleiding leken te geven tot arrestaties. Rond 19:00 uur werd de menigte volledig omsingeld door politie-eenheden. Er werden bussen geplaatst om het zicht te blokkeren, en de pers werd verwijderd. Op dat moment werd het onmogelijk voor demonstranten om de Dam te verlaten. Ik stond hand in hand met andere demonstranten, terwijl agenten met stokken en schilden ons bleven benaderen. Even later verschenen gemaskerde agenten zonder zichtbare identificatie, die met geweld tegen demonstranten optraden. Dit geweld omvatte onder andere stokslagen en het hardhandig wegvoeren van mensen. Ik zag meerdere mensen worden vastgepakt en afgevoerd door agenten in groepjes van twee tot drie. Zelf werd ik rond 19:30 opgepakt door twee gemaskerde agenten. Een van hen waarschuwde mij: ""meelopen, anders zijn we genoodzaakt om geweld te gebruiken"". Terwijl ik verbaal aangaf dat ik mij niet verzette, greep hij mijn hoofd en gaf mij meerdere knieën in mijn gezicht. Ik werd naar de grond gewerkt en met mijn handen op mijn rug geplaatst en voelde een knie in mijn achterhoofd. Mijn bril viel af en is gesneuveld. Daarna werd ik door drie man naar een politiebus gesleept en ondersteboven in de bus gegooid. Tijdens dit proces bleef ik verbaal herhalen dat ik mij niet verzette. In de bus werd ik zonder verdere uitleg achtergelaten. Een mededemonstrant in de bus hielp mij overeind. Later hoorde ik dat wij naar het Westerpark waren gebracht en daar op afstand werden gehouden. Andere demonstranten zouden elders in de stad zijn afgezet, waar ze werden bedreigd met verdere maatregelen als ze zich niet zouden verspreiden. Tijdens het hele incident heb ik verbaal geweld van agenten ervaren, waaronder dreigementen zoals ""Als je niet meewerkt, gebruiken we geweld."" Het optreden was intimiderend, onnodig gewelddadig en gericht op het voorkomen van vreedzaam protest. Mijn nek doet pijn en ik neem nu op advies van de dokter rust. | 1 video | 2024-11-15T21:50:48.728Z |
| 513 | Amsterdam | 2024-11-28T00:00:00Z | 900 | Police report on violence in Amsterdam covering the time period 6 May - 13 May | 1 document | 2024-11-29T12:11:40.006Z | |||
| 514 | Amsterdam | 2024-11-29T00:00:00Z | 900 | Documents released by Gementee Amsterdam as part of a WOO WOB (FOIA) request | 2 documents | 2024-11-29T12:13:46.361Z | |||
| 515 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-23T00:00:00Z | That week till the 3rth of june | That week till the 3rth of june | Binnengasthuis, BG2 | Outside Agitators; Exhibition | The end project of the UvA course Artivism in Action given by Dr. Corina L. Apostol was organizing an exhibition. The encampment took place during the production of this exhibition and a lot of students following the course, me included, took part of the encampment. Therefore it was decided that the exhibition should be about what was happening at the university at that moment. One wall of the exhibitionroom was reserved for documentation on the encampment. this included a drawing of the floorpan of the encampment in oudemanhuispoort, posters taken from the encampment and fotos taken by a student of the course during the protest. the text about the encampment on Gaza stayed very neutral, mainly because there we didn't think we were the people to enrapture this historical moment and we felt like it was still happening when the exhibition took place. In the middle of the exhibition a barricade was build with on the front a postbox. the idea was that people could share their thoughts/ memories about the encampment, summerly to how you are doing with this archival project. The exhibition compared the encampment of last year to historical encampments and protest at the UvA. It placed the encampment for Gaza in a broader context of students asking the UvA for democracy as a question that has been asked since 1969. The exhibition took place in BG2 only a few weeks after the encampment meaning that the streets around the building were still broken up. The location in BG2 was sadly hard to reach and the communication about this exhibition was hastily done, meaning no one really visited. The website about the exhibition isn't on anymore but underneath I will attach a link to the Google Drive that was used during the production of the exhibition and the instagram page. [omitted] | 4 images; 2 videos | 2024-12-07T15:30:08.531Z |
| 516 | Amsterdam | 2024-05-06T00:00:00Z | 19:01 | 19:01 | Roeterseiland Campus | Barricades; Encampment; Demonstrations | These are pictures from the first encampment outside the Roeterseilandcampus where students encamped and built barricades and where a protester wearing a keffiyeh as a face covering to protect themselves from potential doxxing is walking past one of the barricades where “ACAB” is written and “protect each other”. At the encampment they set up a community library with all sorts of books related to the Palestinian cause where people can be seen reading with a crate of bread next to it. | 2 images | 2025-04-04T19:55:57.227Z |
| 517 | Amsterdam | 2025-05-08T00:00:00Z | 19:42 till around 21:00 | 19:42-21:00 | Rokin | Barricades; Demonstrations; Police Violence | After the second encampment at Oudemanhuispoort students and protesters were evicted and a large amount of them went to the Rokin where they called for a support demo which led to a large amount of people showing up and supporting these people because there is strength in numbers. Quickly after riot police in face masks started going in on the crowd and beating people up with batons before they retreated for a bit. They resorted to block the road in front of us. A protester is seen playing the trumpet while the crowd shouts the people united will never be defeated. A protester is climbing a street sign with the Palestinian flag with a large amount of cops and police busses behind them. One of the squatter groups in Amsterdam that squatted a building in Rokin is seen supporting us from their window masked with fireworks in their hand and a Palestinian flag hanging from the window. Demonstrators successfully succeeded into blocking the police with fences that were being used for construction that left them unable to do anything since they were stuck in a little corner next to the metro station with fences blocking them from the front and behind with no way out. | 1 image; 4 videos | 2025-04-04T20:04:21.530Z |