# Judge Compares Police at Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal to 1980s Militia

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2116486157244514732
- Source account: [@AGozdyra](https://x.com/AGozdyra)
- Source language: Polish
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:59
- Published: 2026-11-01
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- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/McHXFJ4otip5/pl/s%C4%99dzia-o-policji-w-trybunale-konstytucyjnym-wspomnienie-lat-80.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/McHXFJ4otip5/en/judge-compares-police-at-poland-s-constitutional-tribunal-to-1980s-militia) Watching what is happening, I have before my eyes scenes from the eighties, when standing opposite citizens who were expecting changes in the country, uh, there marched, um, ranks of officers of the then militia, uh, masked, with shields, and giving themselves courage with what I think was a battle cry,

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/McHXFJ4otip5/en/judge-compares-police-at-poland-s-constitutional-tribunal-to-1980s-militia?t=33) when they struck those shields with batons.

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/McHXFJ4otip5/en/judge-compares-police-at-poland-s-constitutional-tribunal-to-1980s-militia?t=37) And watching what is happening, I cannot forget that image. Uh, and for me, uh, a judge who practiced the profession for over forty years, uh, the image of police officers on the grounds of the Constitutional Tribunal, uh,

[1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/McHXFJ4otip5/en/judge-compares-police-at-poland-s-constitutional-tribunal-to-1980s-militia?t=61) the lack of information about who actually is in command, uh, who decides what is happening there, i-is the kind of situation that, in me, as a citizen and a lawyer, arouses enormous concern.

[1:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/McHXFJ4otip5/en/judge-compares-police-at-poland-s-constitutional-tribunal-to-1980s-militia?t=83) Posts, uh, the gentleman's... The Prime Minister's post about restoring the rule of law, and this image I can't get out of my mind, and the prime minister should also remember those times, when masked officers beat their batons against shields,

[1:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/McHXFJ4otip5/en/judge-compares-police-at-poland-s-constitutional-tribunal-to-1980s-militia?t=103) uh, this is something that should immediately, uh, um, change the way things are done when it comes to restoring the rule of law