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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Re the unidentifed people in
out of Washington DC, I'm told in a DM that they're likely federal Bureau of Prisons personnel
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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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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
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CORRECTION on
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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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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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 …Show this thread
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Update on
, where the LAPD shot a homeless non-protestor in the eye for sporthttps://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1269348331496583171 …Show this thread -
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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 …Show this thread
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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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, 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/ …Show this thread -
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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The woman had allegedly "caused serious injury" to the officer at a protest days priorhttps://twitter.com/daeshikjr/status/1269328705752494081 …
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out of Providence RI, with the firefighter union confirming what the young man said on-air to reporters
5th Rule of @fsckemall: "When people say 'Blue Lives Matter,' they don't mean the dark blue ones"https://twitter.com/david_leavitt/status/1269132099430293508 …
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Philadelphia, PA: police collaborating with the white vigilante thug force in https://twitter.com/streetsdept/status/1269031817253982215 …
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Seattle, WA: police beat the everlasting sh*t out of an unarmed protestor for sport
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