Chicago, IL: video from 5/31 where Chicago PD officers don't have their bodycams and have deliberately covered their name plates to avoid anyone identifying them
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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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First-person view of
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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Looks like another angle on
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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Clarification on
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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So the same Philly cop is
, and , and this update
Lawlessnesshttps://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1268989233169137664 …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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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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Re
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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Another lawyer's view on
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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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More on
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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Portland, OR: police email all reporters asking them to leave so they can brutalize protestors without anyone watchinghttps://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1269158291302518784 …
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(I'm told they promptly gassed protestors in Portland soon after that email. Still digging through DMs for video)
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Washington, DC: another instance of totally unidentifiable people acting as law enforcement
No nameplates, no badges, no insignia, no uniforms
(Also: no facemasks
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Providence, RI: interview with a firefighter about why he's protesting – turns out he was racially profiled and arrested while *on the job* and *in uniform*
Another example of the 5th Rule of
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New York City, NY: police casually shove a guy off his bike at the corner of Norstrand and Crown, then start making arrests
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above in NYC, of the post-shove arrestshttps://twitter.com/c_sommerfeldt/status/1269119936112349187 …
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