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Full tankman video where the tankers go to lengths to avoid harming him, he's able to climb on the tank and then walk away with no repercussions:
https://youtu.be/FaojdRThXbY
Just a couple examples(out of many) of US state forces running over protestors in the last couple of years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiKv85jUUaQ
https://youtu.be/Td4EIRhmKyM
Also the tank is very clearly leaving the square in that video, if you've seen any imagery of the area it's immediately recognizable. (Besides that; it also doesn't make sense that the street is so clear, that close to the square, because the military did encounter serious resistance going in. I wonder why we don't see that imagery floating around ๐ค)
He's not standing in the way of them to protest the intervention before it started, he's demanding that the tanks turn around and remain present in the square some time after everything that had occurred.
There's a reason Western media never shows the full video. They want the viewers to wrongly fill in the blanks and assume that he was run over.
I'd love to know what words were exchanged between the man and the tank commander. Since he has never been identified we'll probably never know.
Maybe we need to go back to calling them massacres. "The Portland Massacre, and the Minneapolis Massacre"
That the trouble with meeting people from other side of the world we didn't get the same propaganda. I Europe I didn't got the tianamen thing. Too young I guess but not surprising when you see the Bush thingy. I discovered it on reddit and got the US version. I got the other side version from Lemmy. No state is clean in Europe too. I am not surprised about the lie. You will smile, for long where I grow up their was reputation that Asian were smart and american obese. And that in a small lost city.