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Lalon Sander reports on police violence in Germany. Activists had been claiming for years that German policemen used arbitrary and excessive violence at demonstrations; that people who brought charges against officers often had to face charges themselves; that officers protected each other before the courts; that the proceedings were slow and cases were often dropped because the accused officers could not be identified; and that in the rare cases, in which policemen were convicted, they received unreasonably lax sentences.
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