New York City, NY: I frankly didn't know it could be done, but the NYPD has figured out how to pepper-spray people to deathhttps://twitter.com/lechaiamet/status/1268655281757700097 …
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Oakland, CA: the US Postal Inspection Service illegally seized boxes of face masks intended to help prevent protestors from spreading COVID-19
Face masks are not prohibited by USPS regulationshttps://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1268754050109014017 …Show this thread
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Tampa, FL: how many Tampa cops does it take to choke out and arrest one woman? I count threepic.twitter.com/cpBb5FUHI5
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Another angle of
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Tampa, FL: protestor asks on bullhorn, "Why are you shooting at us?"
Police respond by shooting at thempic.twitter.com/UnQm9PGtkLShow this thread
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Tampa, FL: extended montage of brutality by Tampa policepic.twitter.com/yklrqhCzfgShow this thread
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Philadelphia, PA: how many Philly cops does it take to beat one woman? I count two, after the pudgy bastard in white starts beating people with his batonpic.twitter.com/VbBxWiOukbShow this thread -
New York City, NY: cops indiscriminately beating the sh*t out of everyone in sight, and throwing one guy into a pile of garbage bags
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New York City, NY: cops arrest a food delivery driver for violating curfew, even though food delivery is an essential service exempt from curfew
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Savannah, GA: not a police brutality story, but instead a solid column from @SkinnerPm on how ludicrously stupid our policing strategies are in this countryhttps://twitter.com/skinnerpm/status/1268315198697373696 …Show this thread -
New York City, NY: arrestees in line to board a detention bus. The man speaking is a janitor non-protestor who was bum-rushed by police for violating curfew as he was getting off of workpic.twitter.com/tssgSFc7W3Show this thread
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New York City, NY: NYPD cop repeatedly assaults a journalist, pushing her over and over again with his batonpic.twitter.com/lj98hcSoGkShow this thread
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Lincoln, NE: two cops arrest a woman who's maybe 4' tall? Another repeatedly yells at a group to "GO NOW!"... they leave... but then he decides to have them arrested instead, with some assault thrown in
Lawlessness
https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/watch-now-arrested-lincoln-protester-felt-violated-we-did-nothing-wrong-but-exercise-our-constitutional/article_aa0216d0-b79b-524b-9b6a-5db44a2d49dc.html …pic.twitter.com/vPk1bwwp1hShow this thread
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Whitefish, MT: we don't know if he's a cop or not, but he's a clearly unhinged Qevinpic.twitter.com/P0a3qfGGBXShow this thread
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Y'all remember
out of Richmond VA?
Where police opened fire on peaceful protestors without provocation?
Turns out there *was* provocation after all
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Salem, OR: cop tells armed white supremacists that police are about to teargas the protestors, and "requests" them to "discreetly" stay inside so the supremacists aren't hit too. The cop is asking so protestors don't see them "playing favorites"pic.twitter.com/Fgc5LwGj7aShow this thread
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Being armed with a water bottle gets you teargas and a bullet to the eye Being armed with an AR-15 gets you discreet personal advicehttps://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1268940700944605187 …
0:20 Salem, OR: cop tells armed white supremacists that police are about to teargas the protestors, and "requests" them to "discreetly" stay inside so the supremacists aren't hit too. The cop is asking so protestors don't see them "playing favorites"
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Re
above in Tampa FL, it appears the woman police were abusing is actually a child
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Los Angeles, CA: another where the picture speaks for itself
A homeless non-protestor has his eye shot out by LAPD for sporthttps://twitter.com/iwant2cycle/status/1268868757839122432 …
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New York City, NY: police arrest a woman and her husband on the stoop of their own home for cheering on protestors
A violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments
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Another picture of
above out of Los Angeles CA
Not protesting
Homeless
*In a wheelchair*
LAPD gives no f*ckshttps://twitter.com/davidwspencer/status/1268952262061121536 …
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Washington, DC: the White House is using federal prison guards for riot control
If you saw my previous coverage about Butner FCI up the road from where I live, you know just about every federal prison – including staff – is rampant with COVID-19https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/1268892573663481857 …Show this thread
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Des Moines, IA: police conduct a violent raid on a LGBT bar
More details in the tweet following this one
Also notice the theme: police gassed a LGBT bar in Raleigh at abovepic.twitter.com/M4Z3urDBGzShow this thread
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More on
above in Des Moines, IAhttps://twitter.com/aaronpcalvin/status/1268667848043438082 …Show this thread -
New York City, NY: police descend on peaceful protestors, and repeatedly tried to grab and arrest a reporter as she's showing her press passpic.twitter.com/yF9InvkxTrShow this thread
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More on
above
This looks like the same area as above (cc: @jasonemiller)https://twitter.com/carolineha_/status/1268727209205907458 …
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Los Angeles, CA: text thread on LAPD's casual sex assaults on female- and gender-nonconforming arrestees
Sadly, this is common. Large number of my clients have shared similar stories over the yearshttps://twitter.com/juliacdupuis/status/1268638919286861824 …Show this thread
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Bethesda, MD: originally had this outside the protest-related violence thread because I thought it was just a random white guy
Seems instead that it's an ex-cop booted in 2018 for excessive force?https://twitter.com/parkpolice/status/1268973681784610816 …Show this thread
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Video for
above. He assaults multiple people, including a little girl
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News about
above. The entire Buffalo NY ERT has resigned over the suspensions of two cops who tried to casually murder an elderly guy
All of them should be blacklisted from ever working in law enforcement again. They clearly can't be trusted.https://twitter.com/wgrz/status/1268978417149652994 …Show this thread -
UPDATE: Apparently I was overly optimistic and they will still be cops, free to violate your rights for sport as they see fit They'll just do it on assignments where there are fewer people recordinghttps://twitter.com/danielnazer/status/1268987330406178816 …
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News about
above out of Philadelphia
When your senior leadership is violating the Constitution this flagrantly, it's a reminder that the cultural rot in policing runs *deep*
Lawlessness
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