The protester offered to calm down the violent crowds. Police spokeswoman Virginie Wegner professed to be surprised that instead he used the police loudspeaker to stir them up even more. Are the German police really this impossibly naive? If so, then their time will come sooner rather than later — the time when they face these same Muslim rioters they were aiding. “German police megaphone used in anti-Israel rant,” by Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press, July 13, 2014 (thanks to Ali):
BERLIN (AP) — German police allowed an anti-Israel protester to climb inside a police car and shout slogans including “child murderer Israel” and “Allahu akbar!” — Arabic for “God is Great!” — through a police megaphone, a spokeswoman for Frankfurt’s police said Sunday.
Police let the protester use the megaphone during a Free Gaza demonstration Saturday because he had offered to calm down a protest that had turned violent, spokeswoman Virginie Wegner told The Associated Press.
“We as police had come up spontaneously with this unusual method and he abused it — we didn’t expect that,” Wegner said, adding that police were investigating the incident. “Police are neutral during protests.”
Instead of calming things down, the protester — whose identity was not revealed — shouted anti-Israel slogans in German and Arabic in downtown Frankfurt. A video that went viral shows a crowd following the police car, cheering and repeating the chants.
More than 2,000 people participated in the Frankfurt protest, many waving Palestinian flags and wearing T-shirts calling for a boycott of Israeli products….