Denver, CO: person is walking down the street minding their own business – not even protesting! – and a DPD cop bathes them in pepper-spray for sporthttps://twitter.com/brofax/status/1270033511324385280 …
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British police choosing to value life over property Radical concepthttps://twitter.com/bbcbristol/status/1269733076491546625 …
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Columbus, OH: police injuring a Special Forces veteran worse than the Taliban ever did
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Pittsburgh, PA: different officers give different directions about where a man is allowed to go
When he doesn't move quickly enough, one throws a teargas canister directly at his feet and then shoots him in the chest for sport
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More info on the person hit with the canister in
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Multiple: *lengthy* thread of police departments lying to the public about what's happened in a variety of instances
Your Government is lying to you. Regularly.https://twitter.com/relentlessbored/status/1269481497301594113 …
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Seattle, WA: a mashup of multiple cameras, notice the top left where SPD blows away a journalistpic.twitter.com/E1ltEGCZphShow this thread -
Seattle, WA + Portland, OR: another mashup of multiple videos showing the chaos and violence by police
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Another video supercut of some of the lawlessness from the last few days The cops are rioting [
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The shooter is cop-adjacent
(Also check out the next tweet in this thread, documenting how the guy's social media accounts were being wiped while he was supposedly in custody)https://twitter.com/spekulation/status/1270166239621472256 …
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Charlotte, NC: police arrest a representative from The Bail Project before they're slated to speak at a protest by Charlotte-Mecklenburg's public defenders
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Houston, TX: a cop headbutts a protestor for asking why cops are beating another protestor
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New York City, NY: police deliberately targeted non-protesting legal observers for arresthttps://twitter.com/jangelooff/status/1270106687295369216 …Show this thread
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HELP NEEDED: want to help us add dates and times to these videos?
We know many of you want more info for the spreadsheet that @jasonemiller put together to mirror the Police Brutality Mega-Thread (yes I know it needs a better name) See below plz:https://twitter.com/jasonemiller/status/1270207947772096512 …Show this thread -
Portland, Maine: rounding up journalists for arrest because of cop-skeptic tweetshttps://twitter.com/nathantbernard/status/1270354073611534339 …
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Asheville, NC: police shoot a guy in the neck/face with a pepperball
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Beavercreek, OH: police fire teargas into a peaceful protest
Afterward, they had the audacity to kneel with the people they'd just gassed for a photo op
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Buffalo, NY: police dispatcher slips up and says the quiet part out loud
(He has now been suspended)
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above out of Charlotte NC, from State Senator @JeffJacksonNChttps://medium.com/@Jeff_Jackson/review-of-incident-in-charlotte-on-4th-street-on-the-evening-of-june-2nd-2963d4598500 …Show this thread -
There are 52 unique incidents of video-recorded NYPD police brutality just in this thread, most of which have multiple videos from different angles When NYPD cops riot – acting like (taxpayer-financed) "animals and thugs" – this is the resulthttps://twitter.com/augusttakala/status/1270399690912272384 …
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New York police boss Mike O'Meara went off on the media today:
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NOTES: I've gotten a number of questions about what process we're using to verify the videos that make the thread Here's what I've been doing
If a suggested entry is from a traditional media outlet, I piggyback off them – it's presumed accurate until we learn otherwise
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For new video, we check the tweet / hashtags / etc in Twitter Search to see if other people have different-but-similar tweets / photos / vids of the same area + time
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For video that seems "lonely" (no useful corroborating data comes from Twitter Search), we use Google + Google Maps + Tineye to look for corrobating stories and to verify location if possible
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