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Almost 900 arrested at Palestine Action demonstration in London, police say
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“Just following orders” hasn’t been a valid defense since Nuremberg. If “following orders” was a valid defense, there would be a lot of camp guards who wouldn’t have been brought to justice after the war. All humans have agency to either victimize innocents or not. Police officers can choose to not be pigs the same way soldiers can choose to not be murderous Nazis.