Happy 99th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre btw
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Washington, DC: peaceful protestors try to go home to comply with curfew
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Atlanta, GA: as with 

above, police and National Guard are blocking people from leaving, forcing them to stay out until after curfew so they can be arrested
Several more videos in the threadhttps://twitter.com/raiinntweets/status/1267615113953099778 …
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Omaha, NE: police shoot protestors with pepperballs, kick several repeatedly after tackling thempic.twitter.com/3hh168Zz3RShow this thread -


Pittsburgh, PA: police pepperspray and shoot peaceful unarmed protestors as they chanthttps://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2935858916468885&id=100001344162878&sfnsn=mo&d=n&vh=i …Show this thread -
All-white vigilante thug force in


posing with Philadelphia police force for Instagramhttps://twitter.com/jpegjoshua/status/1267634390496149506 …
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Guy who video'd the all-white mob in


was severely beaten for recording their parade, heading to the hospitalhttps://twitter.com/antifa_ne/status/1267631674344574976 …Show this thread -
Guy referenced in prior tweethttps://twitter.com/jwehrens/status/1267621976379740170 …
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Different angle of


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Omaha police instantly tackle a reporter when he announces he's media
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Buffalo, NY: police and National Guard swarm in like Keystone Kops to beat and arrest some people, but then run away as an SUV drives through them and hits at least one officerpic.twitter.com/ufiLsfsxrkShow this thread -


Los Angeles, CA: black store owners call the police to get help with looters
So the police arrest the black store owners who asked for help
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Washington, DC: borrowing a page from the best authoritarian regimes across the globe – didn't Hosni Mubarak do this in Egypt a few years ago? – the military hovers a helicopter low over a crowd of peaceful protestors as a "show of strength"pic.twitter.com/0V3cxGXCAyShow this thread -


Sacramento, CA: police open fire on a peaceful crowd – *before* issuing a dispersal order (you'll hear that near the end) – and one of the first things they do is shoot a non-protesting legal observer (and US Navy veteran) in the face
[FB: https://www.facebook.com/danny.garza.167/videos/10222535335080905/ …]pic.twitter.com/y796sBc51jShow this thread -


Washington, DC: by now you've probably seen this one on the news, but they decided to gas clergy and other protestors so the Yapping Yam could get a photo op at a churchpic.twitter.com/lhx8iyEb5OShow this thread -


Riverside, CA: police destroying private property while being filmed live on the nightly newspic.twitter.com/FiXUUO7CLRShow this thread -


Seattle, WA: police shoot a teargas canister at a reporter – live on-air as she's reportingpic.twitter.com/FIjsFXlC8LShow this thread -
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above, police indicate the SUV was *not* deliberately targeting them; the occupants had been shothttps://twitter.com/aaronbesecker/status/1267666769210114053 …Show this thread -


Elizabethtown, NC: not a video, but the curfew proclamation for a town in rural North Carolina
Notice the first clause of Section III, outlawing alcohol possession in your home
Just a couple weeks ago, alcohol sales were an "essential service" during COVID lockdownspic.twitter.com/g6PlSzbnRY
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(The order is unconstitutional, as many of these will turn out to be. Just sharing because Government overreach seems to be the order of the day, but for some reason it's fine now.)
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Seattle, WA: overhead view of Seattle PD pepper-spraying protestors, then indiscriminately firing flash bang grenades deep into the crowdpic.twitter.com/A1HrKDj9UKShow this thread -
Another angle on

above in Raleigh, where you can see the guy they repeatedly shot was unarmed with his hands outpic.twitter.com/zHu6fXGgLvShow this thread -


Atlanta, GA: four police team up to arrest a photographer, as the nightly news broadcasts itpic.twitter.com/nnKdFfDqToShow this thread -


West Philadelphia, PA: police shooting teargas down empty streets for sport?
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Joliet, IL: Protestors arrested as they're leaving, including one grabbed by the neck and dogpiled by at least 3 cops
[YT @ https://youtu.be/rllO2sdj1Ek ]pic.twitter.com/Jd5SCzQQf1Show this thread -


Washington, DC: video elsewhere in the thread, but here's the @DCist write-up on police pepper-spraying inside a private residence that they didn't have a warrant to enterhttps://twitter.com/alexctaliadoros/status/1267696501129654273 …Show this thread -


Columbus, OH: police pepper-spray members of the news media so they'll stop reporting
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Richmond, VA: police fire teargas on peaceful protestors for sport, a half-hour before curfew
(Not sure if this is just an earlier shot of one of the earlier Richmond vids; let me know if so)pic.twitter.com/k0TF7G1TTUShow this thread -
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above in Joliet IL: one of the cops wasn't a cop
It was the *mayor*https://www.shawmediaillinois.com/2020/06/02/mayor-scuffles-during-george-floyd-demonstration/a8kc44b/?utm_medium=TwitterKCR&utm_source=Twitter …Show this thread -


Denver, CO: Colorado State Patrol shoot a Denver reporter (who didn't realize at the time that the camera was still recording)https://twitter.com/jeremyjojola/status/1267536778577100800 …Show this thread -


Los Angeles, CA: police open fire for sport on two guys standing still yards away having a conversation with each otherpic.twitter.com/bfopABGa2GShow this thread -


Des Moines, IA: Just like 

above, police terrorize and pepper-spray a journalist so she'll stop reportingpic.twitter.com/z3ao4TKdxQShow this thread - 72 more replies
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