Jette Nietzard: Green Youth boss regrets anti-police action

Green Youth boss Jette Nietzard regrets an Instagram entry on which she bears a sweater with the abbreviation “Acab” (“All Cops Are Bastards”). “I don’t think that was the right way to draw attention to the problems,” she said in star– “5-minute talk”. “I own this sweater as a private individual, I posted an Instagram story as a private person. The fact that I, as a spokeswoman for the Green Youth, should have been clear to me.”

You didn’t want to trigger a discourse with it. “Now we have him. But I don’t think it was the right way.” Your post had caused massive criticism at the weekend. The green parliamentary group also distanced itself from Nietzard.

Nietzard sticks to their hard police criticism. “Of course I don’t hate the police as a whole, but what I hate is the system behind it and how it is built.” There are no reasonable police studies, no structural processing of violence and racist tendencies that the police would not make transparent enough.

The boss of the youth organization also criticized the Greenspitze in the podcast. This is “often not directly enough,” said Nietzard. “I would also like the Greens to deal with the police and the structural things that go hand in hand with it even after Lorenz’s death. And I hope that after hiking the Bundestag faction can do more.”

A policeman had shot five times in the direction of a young man named Lorenz on the night of Easter Sunday. Several shots met the young Germans, he died of the injuries. As is customary in such a case, the 27-year-old police officer is determined for manslaughter. Activists fear that the shots on the blacks have a structural racist background.