Well of course you don't; I don't either. That's where the doctrine "bad cases make bad law" comes from But it's practically impossible to satisfy "imminence" via social media posts. It seems like the US DOJ is running this case to chip away at thathttps://twitter.com/monicamiller202/status/1269066599941632006 …
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Lakewood, CA: police stand still for a bit, then decide to march and open fire on peaceful protestors
The department claims "someone threw a water bottle at them"
You'll notice there's no water bottle thrown
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Los Angeles, CA: protestor's GoPro bodycam captures an LAPD officer beating the everlasting sh*t out of a guy with his hands up
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New York City, NY: how many NYPD officers does it take to beat one man? I count 4 here
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New York City, NY: same night and locale as 

above I think, but really soak all of this one in as NYPD officers go out of their way to intimidate / assault / arrest people for First Amendment-protected conduct
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New York City, NY: police kettle protestors into an enclosed area and then start beating them with batons – before curfew
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above out of New York City, this is the reporter repeatedly pushed back by NYPD despite identifying herself as press
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Columbus, OH: protest descends into chaos as a guy jawboning at a cop is violently shoved, another cop comes up to indiscriminately pepper-spray everyone, and then the cops attack
Notice them pepper-spray the guy recording, at the end
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Columbus, OH: protestor gives police the middle finger as they're pepper-spraying people, so another cop speed-walks up to rip the guys mask off so he can be sprayed
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above out of Columbus OH, as police indiscriminately pepper-spray peaceful protestors
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Detroit, MI: police deploying their "sound cannon"
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Denver, CO: a federal District Court Judge has entered an injunction prohibiting certain Denver police practices (screenshots in the tweet below)
Violations will now mean potential contempt of courthttps://twitter.com/questauthority/status/1269119539473719297 …
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out of Lakewood CA, looks like these are LA County Sheriff's Office deputies


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Washington, DC: check out the video in the tweet quoted here
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Philadelphia, PA: cop abruptly grabs a woman for no reason and attacks her, as the other cops assemble and a supervisor yells "why do you always start the violence!" to protestors
The officer who started it? Same as 

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, and 

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San Jose, CA: community activist Derrick Sanderlin helped train San Jose PD on police bias
He escorted a guy to safety when it looked like protestors would attack him
So SJPD repaid Sanderlin by shooting him repeatedly, including in the
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above out of Durham, got a DM asking why I thought DPD would deliberately do that
I *don't* think they deliberately did it; I think they were asleep at the switch (a point I thought I made in the tweet after)
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New York City, NY: police stop issuing press credentials to keep the reporters out
Given how many journalists they beat and shoot on air, honestly I'm surprised NYPD doesn't issue *more* credentials to have more targetshttps://twitter.com/melissagira/status/1268987406805499907 …
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There's a widely-circulating video out of Richmond VA that folks say is a police officer spitting on a protestor We haven't posted it, because it doesn't look like that to me (angle, no discernible reaction from the protestor, etc) Will re-assess if new info comes out
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Lowndes County (Valdosta?), GA: the Lowndes County Sheriff *literally strangles a protestor* for having a protest sign with "FUCK TRUMP" on it
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Confirmed that


took place in Valdosta
The Sheriff illegally confiscates the sign for an "investigation"
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in Valdosta. The Sheriff who strangled the protestor said he took the sign for displaying profanity
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Valdosta, GA: making this a separate incident because it happened the following day — the Sheriff of Lowndes County illegally arrested a woman for holding a profane sign
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Video of


above in Valdosta, as police illegally arrest a woman for clearly established First Amendment-protected expression
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Seattle, WA:
Guy runs from cops and dives into a random SUV. So police club him (0:33), but then punch him in the face for sport after he's cuffed (1:44)
And arrest the random driver
And arrest someone filming
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: "Where do I go? Where do I go??"
: ::blasts pepper spray::
(This may be the same night / area as 
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