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20 Nov, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Vivid account of last night's violent anti-vax rampage in Rotterdam. Police fired warning shots after the anti-vaxxers hurled stones at cops and torched a police car. japantoday.com/category/world…
Here's more. apnews.com/article/corona…
Interesting profile of Rotterdam's remarkable mayor. Born in Morocco, he said after the Charlie Hebdo massacre of 2015: "If you do not like it here because some humorists you don’t like are making a newspaper, then, if I may say so, you can fuck off.” ozy.com/news-and-polit…
Now Mayor Aboutaleb is taking a similarly tough line against anti-vax thugs and arsonists.
Dutch police fired warning shots toward the rock-throwing anti-vax rioters. This sentence from the @AP report opens a window upon a different society: "An independent investigation into the shootings by police was opened, as is the case whenever Dutch police use their weapons."
Updates here from @AP

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