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
The cops are riotingpic.twitter.com/rn9xhM5Kjq
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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 …
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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"
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above in Tampa FL, it appears the woman police were abusing is actually a childhttps://twitter.com/drewthehouse/status/1268713991230062593 …
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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
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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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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 -
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*
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NOTES:
None of these videos are mine; in each tweet, you will see a link either below the video (if it's already tweeted) or above the video (if it's YT / IG / FB)
If you don't see a link, follow these steps to get to the original tweet:pic.twitter.com/VjejGxyPs1
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Raleigh, NC: a man told the City Council he was going to sue the police on behalf of protestors
So hours later the police raided his house and took him to jail
(I'm told at least one charge was dismissed outright this AM; awaiting confirmation)https://twitter.com/indyweek/status/1268996209206792192 …Show this thread
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MORE NOTES:
This thread is *only* protest-related stuff that's happened since 29 May 2020
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@jasonemiller): https://tinyurl.com/GFProtestPoliceBrutality … Google Drive Archive (@DeutscheDogges): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/179RULJm_BPNRdxPqhewTdUdct_PtFsJN … Github Heatmap (@maaminian): http://maminian.github.io/brutality-map/ https://twitter.com/superderp3000/status/1269001528028758017 …Show this thread -
Not brutality-specific so not providing a number for this, but posting just for the sheer tone-deafness of it Keep in mind, Joe Gamaldi said this: https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1128312215839346689 … Gamaldi declared war on Houston citizens for criticizing a botched raid-murderhttps://twitter.com/cnn/status/1269004808301588480 …
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San Diego, CA: casual roadside abduction by SDPD in unmarked vanspic.twitter.com/VzhyAYgraKShow this thread
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Minneapolis, MN: back in the first day or two there was a video of a reporter explaining how she was teargassed and attacked by police; it doesn't look like I included it in the thread, but here's a follow-up of the resultshttps://twitter.com/mollyhf/status/1269003675063799810 …
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More re
above on the "sock" rounds used in San Jose
Apparently they're filled with lead based on the patenthttps://twitter.com/mattdwest/status/1269014695186321409 …Show this thread -
Orlando, FL: peaceful protest outside City Hall turns violent as police open fire with teargas, flash-bangs, and what sounds like rubber bullets
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Des Moines, IA: white people in a car shout "Black Lives Don't Matter," so Des Moines PD think the appropriate response is to shoot a teargas canister at the car *in front* of the one with people shouting
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Eloy, AZ: police brutality by another name, as the Government shuts down taxpayer-funded facilities because of unrest that doesn't existhttps://twitter.com/matt_cam/status/1269021637359423495 …
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Charlotte, NC: Non-state actor so not assigning a number, but check out the CEO of
@cpisecurity in response to@JorgeLMillares's comments about Charlotte-Mecklenburg NC police https://twitter.com/jorgelmillares/status/1268904032288100353 …pic.twitter.com/hSJu2pFDVd
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Durham, NC: DPD briefly closed off a section of E Main Street (in front of their shiny and expensive new police headquarters) so protestors could do a 9-minute "die in"
But then somehow let a car slip past the barricades?
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Notice there's no warning at all from any of the police that there's a car barreling toward helpless pedestrians It was protest organizers who shouted for folks to movehttps://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1269038894089191434 …
0:43 Durham, NC: DPD briefly closed off a section of E Main Street (in front of their shiny and expensive new police headquarters) so protestors could do a 9-minute "die in"
But then somehow let a car slip past the barricades?
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