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I was a captain in Afghanistan and we used to go to the headquarters in Kabul, where there were 50 flags. It was a beautiful sight: 50 different countries supporting the NATO alliance and the ISAF mission. Besides that, maybe five of them contributed to the operations. By the end of the mission, only one or two countries were actually involved in combat operations. We even joked that the ISAF patch (International Security Assistance Force) meant "I Saw Americans Fighting" – Hegseth said. #Pentagon #Afganistan #NATO (translated)

Jakub Tepper described six months of pain, inflammation, and fluid accumulation in his knee. As he wrote, the problems began during his stay in Japan, where he walked a lot up and down stairs. In Poland, he visited two physiotherapists and an orthopedist, and also had an MRI done. According to his account, the visits and tests cost him several thousand zlotys in total, and previous treatments provided only short-lived relief. Tepper wrote that during his stay in Japan, he accidentally ended up with a physiotherapist who, after a conversation and brief examination, believed that the problem might stem from pushing the hips forward and improper loading of the legs while walking. The therapist advised him to change the way he placed his feet and went up the stairs, as well as to work on his posture; he also performed massage and stretching. The visit cost 125 zlotys. The author reported that after the meeting, he felt significant relief, and the pain and inflammation almost disappeared. He noted that he did not want to draw categorical conclusions from a single case, but wrote that the Japanese physiotherapist identified the cause of his complaints in just a few minutes. #fizjoterapia #medycyna #zdrowie (translated)

The author of the post quoted a statement by Emmanuel Macron after the riots, in which the president asked what the participants of the events thought and how the French could harm their own country. The author also claimed that since 2017, the level of migration to France during Macron's presidency had been record-high and significantly exceeded the rates from the times of previous presidents. https://t.co/RD3YPo7HaD #Francja #Macron #imigracja #FR (translated)

Kutil Tona marked the connection between Paukner, Stoniš, and Deník TO as a significant event in the media landscape. He wrote that the pair of journalists uncovered a hostile network of the "castle lord" and will prevent the plundering of the country. He also stated that Vít Rakušan and STAN are coming to an end. He compared the journalists to border guards protecting the homeland and noted that, in his opinion, only the way the enemy is labeled has changed: instead of a western imperialist, today a pro-Western liberal lurks behind every bush, which he referred to with a derogatory term. #Novináři #Pravda #ČeskáPolitika (translated)

Zbigniew Bogucki wrote that Donald Tusk, Radosław Sikorski, and the current government spoke about Russia in a manner similar to Lech and Jarosław Kaczyński several years earlier. He concluded that this shows who was right at that time. Bogucki stated that Tusk is currently not a pro-Russian politician, but a pro-German one. He claimed that in the past Tusk was pro-Russian, and his policy was associated with unfavorable gas contracts, high payments to Gazprom, yielding to Vladimir Putin, and a reset in relations with Russia. He described these issues as facts resulting from the recent history of Poland, and not as evaluations or opinions. #DonaldTusk #Polityka #Rosja (translated)

Przemek, addressing Krzysztof Stanowski and Roman Giertych, wrote that he remembered Giertych introducing school uniforms. He mentioned that his parents considered this change to be good, but at the same time, they judged Giertych offensively. As he added, he did not understand their approach back then, and now he himself believed that uniforms were a good idea, although he maintained the offensive judgment of Giertych. #polityka #edukacja #Opinie (translated)

Piotr Kusznieruk accused Wielowieyska of accepting the police's version as an established fact and assessing the detained individual before the court's decision. He questioned the legal basis for identifying the man who — as he wrote — was calmly standing at the crosswalk, as well as the attempt to take him aside. He asked whether the refusal to provide personal information justified intervention. Kusznieruk noted that pushing away the officers and fleeing did not exempt the assessment of the legality and proportionality of the force used. He also pointed out the choking of the subdued individual, the vulgarities and threats that — as he wrote — were audible on the recording, and questioned whether such behavior was within the standards of human rights. He added that the court had refused to detain the man, and according to the defense, it concluded that the prosecutor had not even demonstrated a high probability of the alleged act being committed. He characterized this as more than just a routine refusal of detention. He deemed the attribution of a crisis to the detainee based on his behavior as public stigmatization. He also believed that publicly presenting him as an aggressor before the court's decision could be seen as incitement, and that journalists should monitor power, rather than act as its spokesperson. #prawaCzłowieka #Polska #policja (translated)

Patryk Słowik wrote to Dorota that he and Wirtualna Polska won a court case against Zbigniew Ziobro regarding his text in which—he reported—he revealed Ziobro's manipulation of court statistics. He accused her of receiving money from TVP during Jacek Kurski's time until her dismissal. He added that when some people left on their own in 2015 and 2016, she hoped she would not be dismissed, but that happened. Słowik wrote that he understood that she might have shown even greater reluctance later to divert attention from the fact that the courage attributed to her did not, in his opinion, correspond to reality. #Polska #PiS #media (translated)

Prem evaluated the recording from the body camera and pointed out nine violations that, in his opinion, were committed by the intervening individuals. He claimed that one of the police officers only provided their rank, without a name, and that the officers did not explain the actual reason for the identification. Referring to Article 15 of the Police Act was, as he wrote, insufficient to justify this action. According to Prem, there were also no legal or factual grounds for the identification, which he considered unlawful. The author also accused the police officers of violating the principle of least intrusive action as per Article 15(6) of the Police Act. He considered a mocking comment directed at the man and an approach within 45 cm to be a manifestation of psychological pressure and a violation of dignity. He also wrote that the order to move to another location had no legal basis. Prem asserted that the officers used physical force without prior calls to comply with the law and warnings required by Article 34 of the Act of May 24, 2013, on measures of direct coercion and firearms. He listed possible consequences: violation of personal inviolability under Article 217 of the Penal Code and potential abuse of power or failure to fulfill duties under Article 231 § 1 of the Penal Code, which carries a penalty of up to 3 years of imprisonment. He regarded the most significant issue to be the man's escape from the grip. According to Prem, if the grip was unlawful, the citizen would not, in principle, have committed an offense under Article 222 or Article 224 of the Penal Code, and self-defense against the unlawful action of a public officer would not be punishable. #policja #prawo #uczciwość (translated)

Paweł Lisiecki asked whether the actual reason for the attempt to identify Mr. Piotr by the capital city police had been established. He wrote that the recording from the officer's body camera and the video, in which — as he claimed — the detained person was made to provide information in order to access a lawyer, were unfavorable for the police. #Polska #Policja #sprawiedliwość (translated)

Monika Borkowska informed that Piotr's wife spoke out for the first time regarding his detention. The woman stated that the attempt to identify her husband did not follow the proper procedures, which led him to suspect that the individuals intervening with him were impersonating police officers. She accused the officers of unjustified assault and detention and appealed for their superiors to take consequences. Borkowska conveyed that Piotr's wife asked why the officers did not provide the basis for identification, the police officer did not introduce himself in the recording, and the female officer violated her husband's personal and even intimate space. She also wanted to know if the superiors would react to what she described as unprofessional conduct. The author of the post stated that she remained in contact with the woman, who asked for peace and anonymity. According to Borkowska, Piotr's wife thanked those supporting the family and those who published information and recordings online. The post also tagged Republika TV, Tomasz Sakiewicz, Marcin Kierwiński, Donald Tusk, K. Gałecka, Michał Rachoń, Jarosław Kaczyński, and GP Clubs. #policja #sprawiedliwość #prawaCzłowieka (translated)

Piegziu wrote that Adam Michnik indeed shaped generations of Polish intelligentsia. He added that Poles had to deal with both what he described as neocolonial national thinking and with a destructive intelligentsia, which — in his opinion — regarded the period when Poland was not on the map as the pinnacle of Polishness. #polska #inteligencja #historia (translated)

Piotr Kusznieruk stated that the recording from the police officer's camera raises questions about the reasons why the officers wanted to identify the man, as well as about his aggressive reaction and attempt to escape. He claimed that at the moment the window was broken, the man was already incapacitated on the ground, and asked how he could have then caused the policewoman's head to hit the window. He appealed to the Chief Police Headquarters to present the facts instead of further versions of events. #policja #bezpieczeństwo #prawaobywatelskie (translated)

Bartosz Lewandowski asked the Polish Police about the legal and factual basis for identifying Piotr. He wrote that, in his opinion, the police cannot preventively determine the data of participants in demonstrations or gatherings without a specific reason, such as a suspicion of committing a misdemeanor or the need to identify witnesses of a crime. He noted that the recording began when the officers were running after the man and asked what had happened earlier and whether superiors had ordered the identification of specific individuals. He assessed that the film left more questions. #Polska #Policja #Demonstracje (translated)

Joanna Pinkwart wrote that the recording from the police officer's camera showed the beginning of the intervention. According to her, the officers wanted to identify the man but did not explain the reason to him, and the recording showed him walking while the police were running after him. Pinkwart added that the man did not respond, but after the female officer instructed him to move aside, he attacked the officers, pushed them, and began to flee. The author wrote that the officer immediately knocked the man to the ground. In her opinion, this undermined the version that the man had lunged at the female officer, causing her to hit her head against the window; Pinkwart noted that earlier recordings had already challenged this account. She added that at the moment the window was broken, the man was incapacitated and lying on the ground. Pinkwart also asked why the police wanted to identify the man and why he reacted so aggressively to the attempt to move him away from the crosswalk. #policja #interwencja #sprawiedliwość (translated)

Tomasz Lipiński described the state of knowledge at 8:00 AM as "verified facts." He wrote that a man was calmly walking away from the officers who were monitoring him due to suspicious behavior. According to Lipiński, 300 meters from the TK, the man entered the premises of his association and attacked a female officer. He had a closed knife in his pocket. Lipiński also wrote that the man, lying on the ground and losing consciousness, hit the female officer's head against the glass door, which broke, and then lost consciousness himself. The officers were supposed to put handcuffs on him, and after he regained consciousness, transport him to the police station. There, he was said to have refused to meet with a lawyer and probably ate the recordings from the officers' cameras. The author also claimed that the man convinced the duty officer to turn off the lights and pretended that the police station was closed. An update was promised. #Fakty #Wydarzenia #Bezpieczeństwo (translated)

Piotr Kusznieruk questioned the way the police presented the controversial intervention. He wrote that the detained man lost consciousness, and according to witnesses, he was being choked and was taken to the ambulance in handcuffs. He added that there were no recordings from the officers' body cameras, but the available recordings contained screams and the officer's profanity. Kusznieruk pointed out that reports included information about a folding knife that was allegedly hidden under the man's clothing. He asked whether the man threatened with it or took it out, and emphasized that no evidence of the knife's use was presented. In his opinion, simply possessing a knife would not justify choking or the disproportionate use of force. The author suggested that highlighting information about the knife while ignoring the circumstances of losing consciousness and the lack of recordings could serve to build a convenient narrative. He called for the release of recordings, documentation of the intervention, and the basis for the use of specific coercive measures. He added that deliberately distorting facts to justify the officers' actions would be a more serious problem than the controversial intervention itself. #policja #interwencja #manipulacja (translated)