I actually know the professor. I probably shouldn’t share his Facebook post narrating the event on here (since this article doesn’t give his name), but… the thing he thinks we should be most concerned about is the police brutality – not in the US, but in Europe, where most of us don’t expect it. When he asked to file a complaint, they threatened to charge him with resisting arrest – which was physically impossible, considering that they had knocked him to the ground and started punching him while he was flat on his back and unable to breathe.

Here’s the excerpt I’ll provide from his Facebook post: 

“One of the policemen came, took off my handcuffs, and told me that they captured the person who attacked us. Then the same policemen shouted at me in a didactic tone (in English): ‘Don’t get in trouble with the German Police!’ This was more than enough. I told the policeman sardonically, ‘I am no longer afraid of the German police. The German police murdered my grandfather. They murdered my grandmother. They murdered my uncle, and they murdered my aunt. All in one day in September 1942. So, alas, I am not afraid of them anymore.’ The policeman was baffled. I asked him for his name, and he refused to answer.”

Police punch Israeli academic in face after mistaking him for anti-Semite