A German politician from the centre-left Green party gave the Hitler salute when she was pulled over by the police for an alcohol test. […] Jutta Boden was found to be driving under the influence and had 1.34 permille of alcohol in her blood. The woman has since resigned.
Boden was a district councilor of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, a well-known district in Berlin.

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    9 months ago

    Nobody should ever drink and drive or do the Hitler salute. And any politician of any party who does something like that should resign immediately. Whether politicians of certain other parties would actually resign, is another question though. Mr “I’m the friendly face of national socialism” is still in the Bundestag at least.

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      9 months ago

      I don’t condone what she did. She deserves ostracization, a penalty according to the law, and losing her career in politics.
      She did resign immediately.
      I just think this doesn’t have international relevance.
      In any case, it doesn’t detract from the credibility of the Green party.

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        9 months ago

        No she wouldn’t.

        If she made fun of the cops in America they’d had shot her.

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          9 months ago

          Nah, she’s white. I’ve seen cops get guns pulled on them by white people and they still try to deescalate rather than shoot a cishet white adult.