Overview
- A short video, posted to Instagram by handle peter_paarkar2.0 and widely shared on July 22–23, shows a CJP protester offering pizza slices to Rapid Action Force officers while saying “Kha lijiye sir.”
- The clip was filmed hours after Monday's clashes between protesters and police and was circulated with overlayed text asserting respect for uniforms but warning against attackers in plain clothes.
- The Cockroach Janta Party has been holding a sit-in at Jantar Mantar demanding Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation over an alleged NEET paper leak, a campaign that produced the July 20 march to Parliament and police responses that included lathis and tear gas.
- Social media users broadly praised the pizza gesture as ‘wholesome’ and expressed sympathy for rank-and-file officers, while some reports cited large view counts for the post that this coverage has not independently verified.
- The clip has reframed coverage of the protest by separating sympathy for uniformed personnel from criticism of those who give orders or operate in civil dress, a shift that could affect public opinion, political engagement and how future crowd-control encounters are framed.