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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
(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
@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
@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
@ghibIio
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i think everyone should read
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Fen
@Ventchat
THIS PROPOGANDA @WCreek1234 IS AN ACCOUNT CREATED ON JUNE 1ST 2020, AS AN “ASTROTURF” ACCOUNT INTENDED FOR HATE with no avatar. Created to try and spread a false narrative. This account has been called out and they refuse to reply. DO NOT LISTEN.
Andrew Bugera
@flyingcroissant
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My city (in Canada) has an APC similar to that which they use for situations with armed suspects. So, fair enough that the police should have proper protection when in that situation. But there is always the risk that someone with very bad judgement uses it to intimidate instead.
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Sam Marfleet
@Sam_Marfleet
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Not a use case per se but an explanation is that individuals hyper-sensitized to the threat of violence were given carte blanche to request free(ish) military equipment through the 1033 program. + Hyper focus on tail end risk - Accounting for costs of militarization
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