There's a housing crisis in #Ireland now. There are record levels of people #homeless (~10k). #Rent is going through the roof. Activists have started occuping empty buildings in #Dublin.
Tonight masked men from the property owners turned up in balaclavas, in a van with no licence plate to drag the protesters out.
The Irish #police, (#Gardaí) also masked, stood by and protected them, arresting protesters #ACAB
https://twitter.com/jackpowerIT/status/1039580356188487680
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@ebel Private mercenaries are an excellent way for the government to sidestep responsibility for any abuses that happen, because the worst the cops can be accused of is inaction, and they can always claim to have not seen whatever abuse they stand accused of not preventing. This is why it's important for a culture to treat protecting abusers the same as being an abuser.