To simplify following the criminal justice news of the last 36 hours, I posted a set of 10 links to police brutality videos on Facebook Can't do that here, obvs So I'm putting them into a thread
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Seattle, WA: more Seattle cops repeatedly assaulting a journalist so she'll stop filming
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Seattle, WA: police force tweets out remains of an "improvised explosive device"
Apparently they're too f*cking stupid to remove the "candle" tag on it before taking the pic
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Seattle, WA: I'm giving these all different numbers because they're all so goddamn outrageous
Read. Then watch.https://twitter.com/colemillertv/status/1269459358288494592 …
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Denver, CO: Denver's mayor is either a moron, totally disconnected from reality, or both
Again: urban pacification issues have been studied for decades, and put into practice in Iraq. The harder authority cracks down, the more people tebelhttps://twitter.com/alex_burness/status/1269427877667172354 …
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Portland, OR: looks like a war zone outside the detention center, as police indiscriminately shoot, bomb, and gas the people they're allegedly supposed to serve and protect
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out of Salem, OR. The police chief apologized for the Department being caught coordinating with white nationalistshttps://twitter.com/satellit3heart/status/1268996093091680257 …Deze collectie tonen -


Austin, TX: police are deliberately maiming the people they're supposed to serve and protect
Powerful montage from @statesman; you'll see both

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Richmond, VA: remember I mentioned up-thread a video of a Richmond officer spitting on an arrestee but we couldn't confirm it?
There's new footage
One officer spits on the arrestee *4* separate times, then another officer spits on them too
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Here's the original footage of


I got sent
In several states, regular citizens have been charged with bioweapon offenses for spitting on officers
And we're mid-pandemic...
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in Seattle WA: police actually cited *a Star Wars meme on Facebook* as a basis for probable cause to arrest
https://twitter.com/daeshikjr/status/1269461283100753926 …
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THIS WAS MY FIRST THOUGHT TOO https://twitter.com/utlgrad/status/1269506425710981120 …
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Florissant, MO: 6/2 home security camera footage captures a police officer running over a man with his car, kicking him, then hitting him with a forearm
Bonus: the DA's son, also a cop, was in the back seat of the patrol car too
https://www.kmov.com/news/florissant-police-officer-suspended-after-video-shows-him-hitting-man-with-unmarked-patrol-car/article_342c6f6c-a861-11ea-a14c-63a8d37b2db9.html …pic.twitter.com/zk5CeEMIifDeze collectie tonen -
Also, notice this gem in the article: https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1269511488718413824 …pic.twitter.com/hvpy2z7t7V
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Another pre-protest reminder, this time out of New Jersey, that unchecked police violence has been a common occurrence for awhilehttps://twitter.com/tjcnj/status/1269391559952420864 …
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in Seattle WA
You'll see more of this in the days ahead. Police will review video footage, get geofence search warrants, etc to charge literally everyone with everything they can. It's all they can do to try and change the narrativehttps://twitter.com/gutxigirl/status/1269505286202482690 …Deze collectie tonen -
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out of Austin TX, on the 16-year-old non-protesting observer who Austin PD sniper-shot in the head for sport from 50yds away
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Austin, TX: the Austin PD is evidently paying someone to send them mail for their public relations efforts
Notice at least 4 of the envelopes have identical handwritinghttps://twitter.com/austin_police/status/1269326118366183424 …
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above in Austinhttps://twitter.com/thisishans/status/1269356247402164224 …
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out of New York Cityhttps://twitter.com/andomforny/status/1269065176814358529 …
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Columbus, OH: police casually use the drowning of a black child on social media as part of a "dOn'T cRiTiCiZe Us!" campaign
Your tax dollars paid for thispic.twitter.com/rxb0gz2DGy
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Florida: a similar "dOn'T cRiTiCiZe Us!" campaign
Two things:
Studies prove community orgs are more effective at crime reduction than police: https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/VThwp5JSFz7eNKF5GkxW/full …
Crime dropped dramatically when NYPD walked out: https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proactive-policing-crime-20170925-story.html …
https://www.facebook.com/151380571653712/posts/2064482350343515/?d=n …pic.twitter.com/35gHqBJ96P
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Portland, OR: police turning downtown Portland into a war zone
The cops are rioting
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roadside abduction in San Diego
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Seattle, WA: more video of how Seattle PD gives an order to disperse, but then uses their bike cops to prevent people from dispersing – and then shoots them when they don't
Lawlessness
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Portland, OR: police push one guy, so another tries to record with his phone
A group of PDX cops then club the everlasting sh*t out the guy recording
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Portland, OR: a police officer shouts "YOU WERE STANDING TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS" as the basis to arrest 2 people behind a car
Another PDX cop then threatens a journalist with arrest if he doesn't stop filming
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Portland, OR: PDX cop beats and pepper-sprays someone for filming an arrest
Footage caught on a downtown surveillance cam
The federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled – in the 1990s! – that you have a 1A right to record police
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in Columbus OHhttps://twitter.com/tylerjoelb/status/1269453755549958144 …
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The police desperately want asspats for doing the bare minimum – along with their salaries and benefits and pensions and legal immunities – then when they get them they whine that it isn't enough
Lawlessnesshttps://twitter.com/tylerjoelb/status/1269455184192851975 …
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