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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)
Malfeasance, misfeasance, and nonfeasance can all be deadly
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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*
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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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Seattle, WA: protestors make a path for an ambulance to get to a medical emergency
Seattle PD says "LOL f*ck you" and makes the ambulance go back
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Portland, OR: now we know why Portland PD asked media to stay away in 

– there had been an order from the mayor's office not to use teargas, and the police said "LOL f*ck the mayor" and used it anyway
Lawlessness
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out of Washington DC, I'm told in a DM that they're likely federal Bureau of Prisons personnel
More in @businessinsider:https://www.businessinsider.com/officers-special-trained-prison-riots-face-off-with-dc-protesters-2020-6 …Deze collectie tonen -


Portland, OR: more in Portland last night, and a lot of high-def video in this thread
Sharing this one for the bass drummer who keeps going amid the teargas
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above in Portland as police push people back
Sounds like a war zone
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Not assigning a number to this because it was pre-protests (27 April 2020) and I'm keeping this particular thread for protest-related violence But it's a vivid reminder of the daily police brutality that ppl didn't realize is normalpic.twitter.com/pqkselKqGc
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Tulsa, OK: police open fire on protestors and shoot a reporter in the process while he's live on-air
[h/t @KTULNews]pic.twitter.com/WowawK40nZ
Tulsa's Channel 8
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below: it was *not* Seattle WA
The location was Philadelphia PA, at the intersection of Pike Street and Broad Street
Thank you to @spectrophagus for the correction!https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1269303637060325377 …
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re the mayor: the "sound cannon" is banned, but chemical weapons are still A-OK in Portlandhttps://twitter.com/iwriteok/status/1269095387668742144 …
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Lincoln, NE: thread from a reporter on finding CS canisters after he and his photographer were gassed twice by police
Police are using chemical weapons on civilianshttps://twitter.com/chrisdunkerljs/status/1268938853945167873 …
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Temecula, CA: Mayor says "I don't believe there has ever been a good person of color killed by a police officer"
Then blames it on dyslexia... and using speech-to-text technology?https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/1269296683432599554 …Deze collectie tonen -
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, where the LAPD shot a homeless non-protestor in the eye for sporthttps://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1269348331496583171 …Deze collectie tonen -
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Buffalo cops fractured the skull of a 75yo, left him bleeding out of his ear to die while they chased away witnesses – and the rest of Buffalo PD shows up to court to applaud them
The cops are riotinghttps://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1269322620316442625 …
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Pittsburgh, PA: people – on their knees – try to tell PGH cops that there are people in the parking deck behind them who need medical care
So the cops pepper-spray them for sport
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Delaware County, PA: Delco police union doing casual mafia things, like threatening to "destroy" local businesses who don't deep throat the boot
Check out the news article in the second tweet of this threadhttps://twitter.com/will_bunch/status/1269224890915328001 …Deze collectie tonen -
Another widely-circulated video that's actually old This one is from 2018, in Desert Hot Springs CA Not numbering since it's not directly protest-related but highlights routine normal daily police lawlessnesspic.twitter.com/ky3aMrJWLm
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Bakersfield, CA: this guy ran over and killed a black protestor for sport
Notice how the police protect him as he casually smokes a cigarette
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immediately afternoon Robert Forbes was run over
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after the police arrive
This one leads in to the video at 

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, the news story on Forbes dying from his injurieshttps://www.kget.com/news/local-news/protester-dies-after-being-hit-by-car-during-wednesdays-march/ …Deze collectie tonen -


Seattle, WA: how many Seattle cops does it take to arrest a woman with her 9-year-old daughter in the backseat? Looks like at least a dozen minimum
Clearly too many cops in Seattle
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above in Seattle
The woman had allegedly "caused serious injury" to the officer at a protest days priorhttps://twitter.com/daeshikjr/status/1269328705752494081 …
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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)
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