Polizei und Gewalt

»Every police action is a violent action (...). Certainly every violent action can only be an ultimate resort, because where violent action takes place, there will always be the danger that the goal of political action is endangered. It cannot be excluded, but it should be excluded. Force can be an argument only in the last instance. But I would not permit myself to forbid the state, in principle, to use power and so also violence. (...) Violence (...) is not forbidden, but avoid it if possible.«