The township of Ferguson might have cooled down after two weeks of violence in the wake of shooting a black kid by a cop six times. But when the rioting was going on guess who was giving them tips on how to handle the situation.
Egyptians.
Yes, there was a site set up with the hashtag “EgypolicetipstoUS” where citizens from the land of the Nile were giving the protesters sound advice on how to handle teargas and baton charges. But more than, the aim was to give tips to the cops with great lashings of sarcasm on how to beat the heck out of the innocent civilians. What do you know, it became quite popular and the scenes in Ferguson looked more ferocious than anything in Gaza, as cops in full riot gear and menacing weaponry cracked down on their own people. On young man writes: Build a monument to honor your police force, but only at the location where they have killed citizens.
An American agrees that the tables have turned and that exceptional Egyptian sense of wry humor is winning the day. They are giving as good as they got, he says.
Here are three samples.
Stop all police services to people so that they feel unsafe and beg you to come back to protect and abuse them.
Hire state sponsored thugs to infiltrate the crowd and sexually assault women to deter them from protesting. Shoot gas canisters at head level.
One of the funniest suggestions was to create a US police anthem called “It wasn’t me’ based on the original sung by Shaggy.
Shot him in the shoulder.
It wasn’t me.
Clubbed him with a boulder.
It wasn’t me.
Saw the scars on his forehead.
It wasn’t me.
And then there is this golden advice: Go bash up the people in plainsclothes, that way people will think it is infighting and the cops are doing nothing.
The one that takes the cake from Cairo: Always target photojournalists.. they’re the eye of the truth.
Seriously, look at the pictures, which is scarier?
