I think you might not be considering all the European countries. I was in Spain this last spring and nothing prepared me for drivers just casually rolling through long red lights.

Very brave of you to travel to the US right now. Stay safe!

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FWIW, in Germany you don’t have the right to free speech, you have the right to your own opinion, but it can be regulated what/how you share that in public.

This is mostly also true in the US but they have a wonderful fairytale about free speech being protected at all costs to confuse people. You can’t yell “fire” in a crowded theater, you can’t knowingly defame people, you can’t post you opinion on publicly traded companies without disclosing if you hold stocks in them, you can’t show your nipples in many public spaces. It is not as regulated as Germany, but it is regulated some.

It seems likely that this is from a related demo “Internationalist Queer Pride for Liberation” that was organized by queer folks in Berlin to support Palestine, not the larger Christopher street day celebration. The news (which mostly takes the police’s word on such matters) say that the sanctioned march was broken up because they used/chanted banned slogans (e.g. “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”). Or they could have just chanted in another language that the Police couldn’t understand, sometimes that is also enough. It doesn’t seem like there was a peaceful end to the demonstration, though I wouldn’t trust the media to depicted what happened fairly in this case. 57 demonstrators were arrested.

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/demo-queer-palaestina-100.html