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in Seattle WA: police actually cited *a Star Wars meme on Facebook* as a basis for probable cause to arrest 
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Longer video of 
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
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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 …
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Portland, OR: police turning downtown Portland into a war zone
The cops are rioting
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Another video of the
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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Columbus, OH: police tweeted out a list of people arrested during protests, including minor children
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Los Angeles, CA: cop pulls a gun on a random black guy at the park, yells at him at gunpoint to get on his knees...
...then gets told "you've got the wrong guy," says "my bad," and leaves
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Minneapolis, MN: part of a lengthy thread on cops shooting journalists everywherehttps://twitter.com/alivelshi/status/1269610498435227650 …Show this thread
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HOW TO SEARCH THIS THREAD: In the Twitter search box, type in what you want – city, specific number (in emoji format) – then add "from:greg_doucette" without quotation marks Then click "Latest" I'm getting a sh*tload of DMs today about a video already at
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MORE THREAD NOTES:
I'm keeping this on Twitter, instead of a blog or some such, because the atomized nature of threads make it easier for people to look for and share just the stuff they care about
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CORRECTION on
: footage was captured by helicopter, not surveillance cam
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MORE THREAD NOTES: Getting several DMs wanting to understand discrepancy in video counts across media outlets (e.g. one said 400+ when we're only at 381) Issue is duplicate angles of same event; they're all one # on thread, but multiple rows on spreadsheet w/ cross-references
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Portland, OR: this is likely the same location + time as one of earlier vids (if anyone can confirm let me know)
Assigning a separate number b/c both (1) note instruction to leave but then kettling ppl so they can't, and (2) attacking a journalisthttps://twitter.com/therealcoryelia/status/1269518318949380098 …Show this thread
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Columbus, OH: police admit they have 6 snipers on buildings overlooking protests, and *desperately* want permission to use lethal force to kill people for exercising their First Amendment rightshttps://columbusfreepress.com/article/columbus-swat-commander-lobbies-use-deadly-force-against-demonstrators …Show this thread
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Seattle, WA: Army National Guard getting in on the habit of refusing to wear name patches to identify themselves
Your Government wants to abuse you – anonymously
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Gonna be on break for a bit, but sharing this link as a reminder that there's a *lot* of this stuff out there that's been going on for many many many yearshttps://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/865324441714270209 …
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Update on
above
The tweet listing of people arrested at the protests (including children) was deletedhttps://twitter.com/humanres0urce/status/1269033710965460992 …
They removed it!
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Lakewood, NJ: police dressing (poorly) as "undercover Jews" to monitor protestors
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New York City, NY: police beat the sh*t out of people for having a stoop BBQ on their own property
News reports indicate it was a birthday party
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Minneapolis, MN: police destroying private property without due process, in violation of the Fourth / Fifth / Fourteenth Amendmentshttps://twitter.com/andrewkimmel/status/1269446515761659904 …Show this thread
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Oklahoma City, OK: police choking out and pepper-spraying a protestor
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