I would like to say one last thing. I am documenting and cataloging every known instance of police misconduct and brutality that is occurring throughout the U.S. I have seen reporters arrested and shot at (one is now blind in her eye), I have seen cops hit protesters with their
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vehicles injuring people, I have seen cops disrupt peaceful demonstrations with tear gas while shooting rubber bullets into the crowd. The list goes on and on and it isn't just in one city -- it is across America. We have a systematic and grave problem when the police treat
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citizens like this. This is a failure of leadership, a failure of accountability and a failure of oversight. Countless times I have witnessed the police instigating and abusing peaceful protesters. This is sickening and represents a very broken system within our society.
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We have a lot of work to do but in the meantime, I feel the socially responsible thing to do is to organize every video that shows police brutality so our leaders and politicians can see why there is so much anger, frustration and chaos within our society. We need major reforms.
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How can people help w the documentation w/out flooding Twitter w images of cruelty & crimes against Black folks? Are your DMs open? Maybe you've got a link to somewhere that people can share links of what they know of. Let us know.
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if you don't have a structure already in place, you could fix up a Google Form with link submission. would help with deduplicating the responses in the associated results spreadsheet as well.
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How can we help? Do you Financial contributions and data analysis skills?
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Pushshift has a donations page here:
pushshift.io/donations/
I'd love to talk with you sometime this week to discuss ways we could collaborate!
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glad to see that there are others who have this same intent. icymi, sharing some existing posts/threads across Reddit and Twitter collating as well:
- reddit.com/r/gifs/comment
- twitter.com/JordanUhl/stat
- reddit.com/r/gifs/comment
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National Guard marches through a quiet residential neighborhood in #Minneapolis, screaming at citizens to get inside.
Soldiers stop to point their guns at residents on their balcony.
They yell “LIGHT THEM UP” as they fire riot control rounds at them.
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