Nobody in the left in Germany will claim police brutality is at any level near what America is facing as that's completely absurd.

However, people do acknowledge police is authoritative, profile racially, and abuse their power at times.

I think you can acknowledge both without being inconsistent.

> Nobody in the left in Germany will claim police brutality is at any level near what America is facing as that's completely absurd.

And that's not what I said. They certainly won't agree that police in Europe is "on average, very kind".

> However, people do acknowledge police is authoritative, profile racially, and abuse their power at times.

That's an overly euphemistic way of describing "ACAB", which is very common and not controversial on the left.

Extreme left. I don't think this sentiment is popular on the left as a whole.

That's hard to say, of course.

There's little rejection in left wing parties and German trade unions (with the exception of the police unions, obviously) with regards to ACAB and similar messages, although you won't find anybody running for chancellor embracing it. As they will march with the Black Bloc on ocassion, I don't think you can draw a clear line.

The parties' youth organizations are generally significantly further left, so that's a different story entirely, but that's probably true for any youth organization.