Conversation

(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!

Quote Tweet

T. Greg Doucette

@greg_doucette

· Jun 3, 2020

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

Show this thread

113

Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

Jun 4, 2020

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?!

Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

Jun 4, 2020

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(?!)

Quote Tweet