Ali Veshi and his CNN crew come under fire from #Minneapolis police with tear gas and rubber bullets.
“There was absolutely no provocation. The police just drove up, split the crowd in two and started firing in both directions.”pic.twitter.com/GTXKU1fTdz
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Salt Lake City: Police violently shove an elderly man with a cane to the ground, for the crime of standing and watching. He couldn’t hear their commands.pic.twitter.com/a4MjujSKNA
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Dallas: Another image of the young girl who was shot in the face with a rubber bullet by the police. She is still holding her grocery bags.pic.twitter.com/N39rCBENBz
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NYPD cop casually slams a man with his car door as he drives by. The police are angry for being exposed. They want blood.
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Linda Tirano, a photojournalist in
#Minneapolis who has worked for The Guardian, was shot in the face with a rubber bullet by the police. The doctors performed emergency surgery, but they were unable to save her eye. She is now permanently blind in that eye.pic.twitter.com/2MgzLPbOLlThis media may contain sensitive material. Learn more
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Minneapolis: CNN reporter Omar Jimenez and his entire crew is arrested and handcuffed by the police while they are broadcasting live. “We can move back to where you like. We are live on the air here... Put us back where you want us,” Jimenez says calmly.pic.twitter.com/J3UnXfCZrd
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NYPD police captain goes berserk, shoving the police barricade into the protesters. He breaks ranks and charges into the crowd to assault a young woman.
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Columbus: A group of peaceful protestors stands before a line of police. A young woman stands still, holding a sign above her head. You see the police take direct aim and shoot her with rubber bullets. She falls to the ground. Crowd: “SHE IS PEACEFUL”pic.twitter.com/tZtvtzqUkU
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Brookyln: Cop pins a medic face-down on the ground with his knee pressing on him. The medic is not resisting and he is clearly wearing a medic’s uniform while crying “I’m a medic! I’m a medic!” Onlookers attempt to film but cops shove them away.pic.twitter.com/EJtRjD3i91
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cw: police violence, children Seattle: At a rainy and peaceful rally yesterday. Police advanced and pepper sprayed a young child in the face.pic.twitter.com/iGM6kPz84R
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cw: blood San Antonio: A young man stands peacefully with a cigarette and phone. He is not a threat, just recording the police walking by. One cop walks up to him, takes aim; and deliberately shoots him twice from point-blank range with rubber bullets.pic.twitter.com/efuDBvje6k
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Las Vegas: Police charge into a peaceful crowd shouting “GRAB ANYBODY! GRAB ANYBODY!” LVPD attacked and then wrongly jailed dozens of protesters, including two photojournalists from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Ellen Schmidt and Bridget Bennett.pic.twitter.com/waWrtcoMob
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Omaha: Demonstrators sit peacefully while a wall of police marches towards them, spraying them with pepper bullets. The police march through and OVER the sitting protesters, launching flashbang grenades and tear gas at bystanders and journalists.pic.twitter.com/Yc7elSE5UY
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Denver. Police were firing pepper bullets and tear gas at cars stopped at an intersection, targeting a car with a pregnant woman. A man yells at them “You’re shooting my car with my girlfriend in it? My pregnant girlfriend in it?” The cops open fire on him with pepper rounds.pic.twitter.com/MrJjqo4ETB
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Minneapolis: Police deliberately shoot foreign press crew from
@DW with rubber bullets. “We’re press! We’re media! Stop shooting at us, we’re in the middle of a live shot!” This journalist has covered war zones for years and he is shocked.pic.twitter.com/oVeMXMluGWShow this thread -
Santa Monica:
@SantaMonicaPD shot rubber bullets through this young man’s#BlackLivesMatter
sign at a peaceful rally.
Notice the bullet holes in the sign and the rubber bullet in his hand.
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cw: police violence ATLANTA: Messiah Young and Taniyah Pilgrim were returning home when police smashed their car windows. The cops pepper spray and taser the terrified young couple, then drag them out of the car & arrest them. You sure this is
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cw: blood, severe injury DALLAS:
@DallasPD shot a Black man man in the eye with a wooden round. The man’s condition is unknown. In the next video you will hear the cops laughing and singing “America, Fuck Yeah!” seconds after shooting him.pic.twitter.com/Yirl8kzrFSThis media may contain sensitive material. Learn more
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DALLAS:
@DallasPD officers laughing and singing “America, F*ck Yeah!” seconds after shooting a Black demonstrator in the eye with a wooden round, severely injuring him. https://twitter.com/ZaraAllegra69/status/1266893408720826369/video/1 …Show this thread -
FORT WAYNE:
@FortWaynePolice fired tear has canisters at protesters’ heads, hitting Balin Brake (@notbalin) in the eye. Doctors tried to repair his eye but were unable to. He is now permanently blind in that eye. (selfie cam flips the image).pic.twitter.com/isJng2ls5b
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SAN DIEGO:
@LaMesaPD shot rubber bullets from a rooftop into a group of demonstrators, striking Leslie Furcron in the face. She’s in the ICU in stable condition. Leslie buried her 38-year-old son Jabar in February. Her niece@SaudiaSakari made a GoFundMe.https://www.gofundme.com/f/csgskf-love-and-support-for-leslie?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link-tip&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet …pic.twitter.com/broUmBm98iThis media may contain sensitive material. Learn more
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LOS ANGELES: Police accelerate their SUV into a crowd, trying to scatter them. The LAPD vehicle slams into a protester, sending them flying back to the ground before the cop reverses wildly, nearly running over several more demonstrators.
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DC police shoot a tear gas round directly at a man’s head, barely missing him. The point of tear gas is to be less lethal. Firing it into someone’s face point-blank is attempted murder by
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cw: attempted murder Police pepper spray a man for just standing there, and then fire a tear gas grenade directly into his face at point-blank range. Video ends but you can see the canister ricochet off the man’s head and into the crowd. City unknown.pic.twitter.com/KxPtaw66dX
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[The preceding video with the point-blank teargas canister to the face was apparently the
@DCPoliceDept] DENVER: Police shot the son of 7X MLB All Star@DaleMurphy3 in the face with a rubber bullet during a peaceful protest. He was wearing goggles, which is what saved his eye.pic.twitter.com/AoZz0iULqlThis media may contain sensitive material. Learn more
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My friends in the National Guard are concerned that the Rules of Engagement are unclear on what to do if they witness police violating the customary international laws of armed conflict. They have a duty to intervene if they see police aiming rubber bullets at peoples’ heads.pic.twitter.com/lhUX2qrpBU
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LOUISVILLE:
@LVMPD and@kentuckyguard murdered a man last night outside his barbecue restaurant. David McAtee was killed by police and guardsmen who opened fire into a crowd after hearing a gunshot, but no gunman was found. McAtee died shielding his niece.pic.twitter.com/KMo9x1C5btThis media may contain sensitive material. Learn moreShow this thread -
Today, it emerged that the “shots fired” was an
@LVMPD officer shooting into the air to disperse the crowd. After learning that all officers had their body cams DISABLED, Mayor Fischer fired the police chief. 12 hours later, McAtee’s body still lay on the ground where he died.pic.twitter.com/t0TNziYRkk
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LOUISVILLE: Last night the
@LMPD murdered#DavidMcTee weeks after murdering another innocent Black person,#BreonnaTaylor, an EMT. Today, the@LMPD has their social media background image set to the “Blue Lives Matter” flag. The Black community is filled with grief and rage.
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DC: Police charge at a camera crew, smashing them with shields and batons as the camerman desperately tries to back up.pic.twitter.com/fe4N3bGQ4B
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PHILADELPHIA: Police trap peaceful demonstrators up against a stone wall, block them in on both sides, then brutally PUNISH them with a barrage of tear gas grenades and rubber bullets aimed at their heads. They had nowhere to escape. They were PEACEFUL.pic.twitter.com/ULanHbWeqI
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