T. Greg DoucetteVerified account

New York City, NY: police deliberately targeted non-protesting legal observers for arresthttps://twitter.com/jangelooff/status/1270106687295369216 …

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 …

Portland, Maine: rounding up journalists for arrest because of cop-skeptic tweetshttps://twitter.com/nathantbernard/status/1270354073611534339 …

Buffalo, NY: police dispatcher slips up and says the quiet part out loud (He has now been suspended) https://twitter.com/ali_ingnews/status/1270157142973169664?s=21 …https://twitter.com/Ali_IngNews/status/1270157142973169664 …

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 …

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

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 1/

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 2/

(e.g. the video of the guy driving his car into the crowd in Seattle also pulls up a lot of just-text "omg this guy just drove into the crowd" tweets with Seattle geotags) 3/

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 4/

If there are people we know from past submissions are actually there on the ground recording, we treat them like journalists and presume they're continuing to share original media We ignore pre-protest videos I know I've seen from working on the @fsckemall podcast 5/

On the couple occasions where we've gotten it wrong (e.g. a video several told us was Seattle turned out to be Philadelphia; Jason noticed because the uniforms were different), we tweet out a correction quote-tweeting the original submission 6/

It's probably not a perfect process, but the few corrections needed thus far suggests it works pretty well It is a stupidly slow process though, which is why I'm only adding 10-20 videos a day 7/7

Note: New Jersey falls under the federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled in 2017 (Fields v City of Phila., 862 F3d 353) that there is a clearly established First Amendment-protected right to film police performing their duties in publichttps://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1270480487249776641 …