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Interview with the woman shot in
above in Fort Lauderdale FL
My understanding is Fort Lauderdale PD's initial response to this was to imply Latoya Ratlieff was lying and to tweet a request for crowd-sourced video footagepic.twitter.com/jRnztBpmc5Deze collectie tonen
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Asbury Park, NJ: a cop manhandles a woman half his size, then his cop buddies arrest a reporter for live-streaming it
[https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/local/how-we-live/2020/06/01/app-reporter-apparently-arrested-asbury-park-george-floyd-protest/5314750002/ …]pic.twitter.com/jtRnbf7T8V
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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 …
0:25 Asbury Park, NJ: a cop manhandles a woman half his size, then his cop buddies arrest a reporter for live-streaming it
[https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/local/how-we-live/2020/06/01/app-reporter-apparently-arrested-asbury-park-george-floyd-protest/5314750002/ …] pic.twitter.com/jtRnbf7T8VDeze collectie tonenDeze collectie tonen -
Atlanta, GA: National Guard shoving protestors over a retaining wall for sport
(Can't read the cross street, looks like Paces Ferry Road NW and Glen Arden Drive NW?)
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Oakland, CA: a student-led protest turns into a war zone (6/1)
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Street-level view of
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Looks like one person throws a water bottle, so Oakland cops open fire on everybody
Very proportional
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Tampa, FL: police shoot a protestor in the back of the head, then open fire on the nurse applying first aid
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Camden, DE: police arrest a reporter for asking why peaceful protestors were being arrested
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Providence, RI: police shoot out the eye of a *non-protestor* as he's *driving home*
[https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/driver-claims-he-was-injured-by-police-during-providence-riot/ …]pic.twitter.com/FXk6IgC6xzDeze collectie tonen
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That's at least the 5th person *just in this thread* who's gotten their eye shot out by police
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Cleveland, OH: police arrest a Bail Project employee for violating curfew as he's heading to the jail to bail people out
(Cleveland's curfew declaration includes an exemption for work-related travel)https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2020/06/bail-project-employee-arrested-on-curfew-violation-while-trying-to-free-people-arrested-during-downtown-cleveland-protest.html …Deze collectie tonen -
Cincinnati, OH: police arrest a black business owner for painting on the windows of his own business
(Cincinnati's curfew included an exemption for work-related activity)
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More on
in Philadelphia PA: Joey Bologna (of "Bologna Strong" fame) and his bike cop buddies *framed a Temple student* as part of the melee police started!
Check out the highlight
Remember: cops lie. Record everything.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-police-beating-temple-student-evan-gorski-protest-20200604.html …pic.twitter.com/5wwLK2r3rt
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Denver, CO: police shoot out the eye of a non-protestor just walking to his car – and they do it drive-by style from the back of a truck
This is at least the 7th person blinded by police *just in this one Twitter thread*https://www.denverpost.com/2020/06/09/denver-protest-bystander-blinded/ …Deze collectie tonen -
(The last guy I thought was #5 in the thread was actually #6 in the thread. Police are busy shooting out so many eyes I can't keep track.)
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Pre-protest so not giving it a number, but just to remind y'all that the abhorrent police behavior we've seen these last two weeks is entirely normal and happens every dayhttps://twitter.com/mighty_lr/status/1270436580273065985 …
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Update on this unnumbered pre-protest video: the officer has finally been charged because of the social media uproar: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-09/lapd-officer-caught-beating-homeless-man-in-viral-video-charged-with-assault … The guy he was beating senseless was homelesshttps://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1269314458549194754 …
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Another reminder that casual police violence is an everyday thing in America Cop culture is thoroughly rottedhttps://twitter.com/gabrielmalor/status/1270423786995822593 …
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Update on
above in Atlanta: the cops who needlessly terrorized and tazed two college students who were trying to head home – fired for excessive force – are now suing to get their jobs backhttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/2-atlanta-police-officers-fired-charged-assault-during-protests-sue-n1228011 …Deze collectie tonen -
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Denver, CO: protestors move out of the street so an ambulance can get passed
With them bunched into a confined space on the sidewalk, police use it as an opportune time to open fire on them without warning
The cameraman takes a bullet to the arm
[CW: blood]
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Tulsa, OK: cop says on radio show that police shoot blacks 24% less "than we ought to be"
Now claims he was merely parroting someone else and is going to file a defamation LOLsuit
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Detroit, MI: police shoot a peaceful 24yo protestor in the back of the head for sport
She was hospitalized with an open skull fracture, brain bleed, and concussion
1.5 year recovery estimate
Detroit PD has opened an investigation
[CW: gore]
[https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/25467/demonstrator_says_she_suffered_skull-splitting_brain_injury_from_detroit_police_rubber_bullet …]pic.twitter.com/VUq488qKLH
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More on the Tulsa OK cop in
who said police need to shoot more minorities
Apparently he's a writer too!
https://web.archive.org/web/20160709140602/http:/lawofficer.com/2016/07/follow-commands-or-die/ …pic.twitter.com/F9cNrD1yRE
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Video of the aftermath of
above out of Detroit MI
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And the announcement of the follow-up investigation by Detroit PD of
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Gotten a lot of quick feedback on
being grotesque (which it absolutely is)
I've got my Twitter settings set to mark things as sensitive, and included an extra [CW] content warning too
Open to other suggestionspic.twitter.com/xKrfsx5VQUDeze media bevatten mogelijk gevoelig materiaal. Meer informatie
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New York City, NY: 4-5 cops cross the barrier to grab a woman from the crowd and wrestle her to the ground
Officers claim she spat on them. Unclear how given, you know, physics
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Another angle of
in NYC
The "spitting" woman is wearing a face mask too, in addition from being back in the crowd and supposedly hitting cops several feet away
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Update on
above on Minneapolis PD blinding a reporter for sporthttps://twitter.com/killermartinis/status/1270802802315493380 …Deze collectie tonen - Nog 63 antwoorden
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