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  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 78%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  Climate activists on Sunday accused police of "Pure violence" after clashes during a demonstration at a German village being razed to make way for a coal mine expansion.
  A police spokesman said on Sunday around 70 officers had been injured since Wednesday, many of them in Saturday's clashes.
  Criminal proceedings have been launched in around 150 cases, police said, including for resistance against police officers, damage to property and breach of the peace.
  
  
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context: Disappointed to hear Germany of all countries is still mining coal. >
  
  Why “of all countries”? >
  
  Germany sells itself as a very climate conscious country >
  
  Turns out that ditching nuclear is not as climate conscious as they thought. >
  
  Also not having Russian gas is a disaster for Europe (reddit will tell you we wont even notice it) >
  
  This is not just caused by Russian war, courts ruled in 2013 the mine can expand at expense of nearby settlements.
  Arbitrarly and forcibly resetting people is the purest form of state violence we are 'supposed' to accept. People rarely if ever feel fairly compensated. 
  Besides police is the extension of state sanctioned to use violence against you, you might think they are there to protect you but as soon as you find yourself in disagreement with state or corporate interests they will use violence against you. >
  
  
  The expansion is going ahead in spite of plans to phase out coal by 2030, with the government blaming the energy crisis caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. >
  
  are you confused? >
  
  70 police injured, but only 20 demonstrators injured out of a crowd of 15,000. >
  
  Police injuries include mud in the eye and a broken nail... >
  
  That’s cause the climate activists rejected nuclear power. What did they expect? 
  Renewables won’t be enough for current demands for years to come (if ever at this consumption rate). >
  
  Climate activists did not protest to reject nuclear power in favor of Russian natural gas. They're anti-nuclear but gas was always seen as a transitional solution, a transition which the fossil fuel industry has been stalling as much as possible for over 30 years, breaking promise after promise. This allowed them to make record profits while shifting blame, very convenient! >
  
  The point is they protested nuclear when it’s cleaner than coal mining and more efficient than any other renewable sources. Serves them right >
  
  The german countryside and environment is getting destroyed for the profit of the ultra rich : 
  "serves them right" >
  
  The German countryside is being destroyed and the rich are benefiting because short sighed climate activists torpedoed their own best shot. Nobody got served right. The rich didn't get beat down, the regular people didn't get green power. >
  
  The rich got richer and the poor got poorer, they're the one who have to live in the polluted areas, the rich can just go wherever they want. >
  
  The cops work for the rich and their corporations.