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Andy Matuschak
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(content warning for link: intense brutality) This video is absolutely abhorrent. But, somehow, this thread contains hundreds of such videos. This would be an appalling collection if these were from drawn from all time, but they are apparently from just the last! few! days!
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T. Greg Doucette
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1️⃣9️⃣1️⃣ Walnut Creek, CA: cops casually threatening to murder citizens 👮🏼‍♂️: "IF YOU DO NOT MOVE, YOU WILL BE DEAD." [Note well: the Constitution, and the Supreme Court interpreting it, prohibit the use of lethal force in this situation] twitter.com/slckrikk/statu
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Andy Matuschak
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Among so many questions, this video nakedly raises the issue of militarization. Walnut Creek, CA had roughly a quarter the national rate of violent crime in 2018. What is the intended use case for an armored vehicle of this kind?!
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Andy Matuschak
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I’m totally uneducated on the topic of police funding reform & don’t know what specific policies I would advocate. But it’s easy to imagine funding community programs like 👇 after seeing that we can trade in armored vehicles policing low-crime suburbs(?!)
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hana
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i think everyone should read
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Mike Rundle
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Greg is an incredible asset to my area and his work as a defense attorney in Durham focusing on injustice is well-known. I donated to his campaign when he ran as a Republican (never Trump) last cycle, and it was the first R that I had ever donated to.
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Suppose we say: "we'll take you to jail and charge you" ...and they say "try me" ...and we find out that they have guns and weapons and can do as they please and we can't stop them